juanpabloangel18 Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 Come off it! I know were shite but to say we never attack during a game is silly! I think its pretty close to the truth... if we were creating chances in games I think a lot more fans would be sympathetic to McLeish. But we really aren't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudevillaisnice Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 Gabby is not leaving. He loves the Villa. He is our Shearer. 261 premeirship goals, top goalscorer in top international tournaments like Euro 96. The only similarity is the receeding hairline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juanpabloangel18 Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 I have to say juanpabloangel18 you do have a very aggressive debating style. Hope I didn't hurt your feelings... :| I wasnt your referring to your interaction with me, because we havent even had a debate. I am referring to your debate with other forum members in this topic and others. So no my feelings are not hurt. Snitches get stitches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voinjama Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 Gabby now has 5 games against not particularly strong premiership sides. He also has the opportunity to put himself in the shop window. Either way the club needs something big from him, because at the age of just 25 he is actually one of the senior players in the side at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyp102 Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 The Gabby of 2007-2010 scored goals in derby games and important matches and linked up with team mates, the Gabby of now just seems to sulk. wouldn't you sulk if you were been played out of position for most of the season and had to play under a manager like mcleish? I'm sure there are times at work when 99.99% of us have to do things we don't like....you just get on with it, that's life...Being a footballer shouldn't have anyway leeway on this fact i bet some of us have done a lot of sulking this season with some of the performances we've had to put up with, so were allowed and he is not? bearing in find hes also a fan. you can't come on here in general complaining about mcleish for making us shit and then having a go at a player for sulking because of it when were all doing the same anyway. I don't really understand your arguement. As a fan, yes Gabby is perfectly entitled to sit at home and sulk about the way villa are performing and our awful league position. However, he is employed as a footballer, therefore irrelevant whether he is a fan or not, he should do what his manager tells him to do to the best of his ability not sulk on the pitch that he isnt being played on his favourite position. If my manager asks me to do something (within my terms of employment) I have to do it, otherwise i'd face disciplinary action. I'd be very surprised if Gabby's contract states he has to a play as astriker and therefore he is unlikely being asked to work outside his terms of employment. Adversly as a fan of Villa, wouldn't you, given the opportunity "bust your gut" to play for villa week after week? Look at Ian Taylor when he was here, never the most technichal player but would run through brick walls for the Villa cause. Gabby doesn't seem to be doing that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRS-T Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laivasse Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 The point about being played out of position is not that players should be accommodated by being put in their 'favourite' slot, it's that players genuinely play worse when they're not playing their natural role. Then they see themselves playing worse and get demoralised. Furthermore, they have to change the way they think about the game in that new position, so when they are then moved back to their original role they might not play the same way any longer. Let's face it Gabby probably doesn't have room for many thoughts in his head in the first place, so all his striker's thoughts now seem to have been squeezed out of his ears. Ditch McLeish before Gabby though. One can perform better, the other can't. One has dragged us away from relegation this season... you get the idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
privateer Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 I'd snatch their hands off. Outrageous for a striker that can't seem to score much and is pretty much a one trick pony. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CI Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 We must protest & put the brakes on this move Gabby is Mr Aston Villa FC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briny_ear Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 Well...Barry, Young, Milner, Downing, Friedel... Gabby would just complete the hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CI Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 It would be McLeish down to a tee to sell Gabby and replace with Kenny Miller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacbuddies Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 We must protest & put the brakes on this move Gabby is Mr Aston Villa FC No wonder we are **** then! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UpTheVilla26 Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 This would be the final straw for me if Gabs went. As someone above said, he has done a lot for this club and to see a player, who has constantly stated his desire to remain at this club for life, suddenly shipped out would tip me over the edge I am already balancing on. For those saying 'he don't score enough' you tell me what player in the world would score 'enough' if they had to play under this shit-house of a manager. Because Mcfuckingcluelessnegativeidiot has about as much idea at deploying an attacking line-up as I do knitting a winter scarf, it doesn't really matter anyway - might as well just sell all our strikers and get some more Defenders in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CI Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 Gabby was brilliant under MON That's why he won England caps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UpTheVilla26 Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 He was brilliant against Norwich earlier this season, he ripped them apart. About the only attacking display we have produced in the last 8 months. If he goes, then our fantastic manager better buy himself a tin hat because I have a few house bricks that will be coming his way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 I'm a big Gabby fan and he was very good in the 1st half of the season but he's been a real disappointment to me since xmas, has not stepped up in Bent's absence at all. I still don't think we should sell him though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juanpabloangel18 Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 This would be the final straw for me if Gabs went. As someone above said, he has done a lot for this club and to see a player, who has constantly stated his desire to remain at this club for life, suddenly shipped out would tip me over the edge I am already balancing on. For those saying 'he don't score enough' you tell me what player in the world would score 'enough' if they had to play under this shit-house of a manager. Because Mcfuckingcluelessnegativeidiot has about as much idea at deploying an attacking line-up as I do knitting a winter scarf, it doesn't really matter anyway - might as well just sell all our strikers and get some more Defenders in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CI Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 Gabby just needs his spark plugs changing then he's good to go again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thejoker Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 We must protest & put the brakes on this move Gabby is Mr Aston Villa FC Maybe thats part of the problem....not good enough and not a big enough personality to be 'Mr Aston Villa' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AValon Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 Of course, if he DOES see his future in some forbidding, barren wilderness oop north, what do you do? Its hardly shipping him out, is it? And if theres 12m on the table, it would be silly not to consider it. Says a lot for the kind of damage the ginger bringer of doom has wreaked on this club, though, if he can sway the usually unswerving loyalty of someone like Gabby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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