daz316 Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 Do not want him here. How he is fit to wear the shirt is beyond me. Never will be a villa great in my eyes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k46ejvF2BFE Always been proper shite. I swear this Gabby hate NEVER ceases to amaze me, even if he doesn't live up to what I would only refer to as fairweather fans hype. I will never get the over the top venom towards him! Ridiculous! "Never been a premier league player" along with a whole lot of other tripe I have repeatedley read on here. some of you could spare me the stress and go and do some research on his prior Villa career before chatting absolute bull. ONCE again, the irony of how majority of the time he has been "shite" so has the team, or he was being played as a winger! YEAH! Go do some research......on YouTube which we all used to decide tonev was class. I've been to every game the man is clueless and holding us back, end of Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grobs Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 Gabby will always be my favorite villa player. Just for the goals against blues Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osmark86 Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 I could never say I hate a player who's been excellent for us in the past and is "villa through and through". I just don't think he's good enough anymore to warrant a place in the starting eleven. No matter how much he has done for us the priority is to win and get the most out of our players when it's game day. Imo Gabby does not offer enough often enough and he shouldn't start as many matches as he does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 (edited) Do not want him here. How he is fit to wear the shirt is beyond me. Never will be a villa great in my eyes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k46ejvF2BFE Always been proper shite. I swear this Gabby hate NEVER ceases to amaze me, even if he doesn't live up to what I would only refer to as fairweather fans hype. I will never get the over the top venom towards him! Ridiculous! "Never been a premier league player" along with a whole lot of other tripe I have repeatedley read on here. some of you could spare me the stress and go and do some research on his prior Villa career before chatting absolute bull. ONCE again, the irony of how majority of the time he has been "shite" so has the team, or he was being played as a winger! YEAH! Go do some research......on YouTube which we all used to decide tonev was class. I've been to every game the man is clueless and holding us back, end of So he has been useless since he has been in the first team for all these years? every single season of them? Even you must realise that is utter tosh...lol. Never scored important goals or had good games? Get a grip, some of you sound proper ridiculous! Worst case he deserves some respect, maybe should not be starting I agree, but once again the dramatics are unbelievable. FYI I've been watching Villa for 20 odd years myself so I don't know what type of Villa fan D measuring competition this is supposed to be. Obviously I used Youtube because it is easily accessible, and a convenient reminder, come off it. Unless I should start asking people to buy seasons past DVD's? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0BMLuRD-k0 Here is an even better one just to annoy you! lol Edited August 20, 2015 by JAMAICAN-VILLAN 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted August 20, 2015 Moderator Share Posted August 20, 2015 Always been useless - a brace from having scored more league goals for us than Dwight Yorke or Peter Withe. The odd thing is, that whilst I don't think he's useless, it's hard to see quite how he's got there other than through plugging away for what is a poor Villa side for years and years - his next goal will make him one of only eleven players to have scored in eleven different seasons (and only the fourth since WWII). He's always been good enough to play, he'll need to work hard if he wants to maintain that and I think the challenge will do him good. More than anything else, it's his ability to keep at it that's seen him through so far. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morley_crosses_to_Withe Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 I don't know what purpose the Yorke and Withe stat serves. They did it in fewer games. And as for scoring in seperate eleven seasons, when you consider it's only around 70 odd goals in those eleven seasons - that's just shocking, isn't it!? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted August 20, 2015 Moderator Share Posted August 20, 2015 I don't know what purpose the Yorke and Withe stat serves. They did it in fewer games. And as for scoring in seperate eleven seasons, when you consider it's only around 70 odd goals in those eleven seasons - that's just shocking, isn't it!? It's 84 - I guess shocking would be up to you, it puts him amongst our greatest goalscorers in the last 50 or 60 years. Watching him get them has been torturous at times and he's been below par for a while, I don't disagree that he deserves criticism and I'm hopeful that the challenge of the players we've brought in will force him to pull his socks up - but those 84 goals on their own I think deserve a little respect. That's the Gabby Agbonlahor paradox - if he plays another three or four seasons he'll be the least liked player in history and the greatest living Villan. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 I will match maqroll's post in the N'Zog thread. Gabby is an infuriating player, he had tons of natural (mostly physical) ability but his application is left wanting at most times and he just doesn't use his head. There's no excuse for that after 10 years of top flight football. I, unlike some, still desperately want him to recapture some of the form shown earlier in his career. He started to do that before his injury last season, which is why Sherwood will persist with him for a short while I'm sure. Clean slate etc. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted August 20, 2015 Moderator Share Posted August 20, 2015 I don't know what purpose the Yorke and Withe stat serves. They did it in fewer games. And as for scoring in seperate eleven seasons, when you consider it's only around 70 odd goals in those eleven seasons - that's just shocking, isn't it!? It's 84 - I guess shocking would be up to you, it puts him amongst our greatest goalscorers in the last 50 or 60 years. Watching him get them has been torturous at times and he's been below par for a while, I don't disagree that he deserves criticism and I'm hopeful that the challenge of the players we've brought in will force him to pull his socks up - but those 84 goals on their own I think deserve a little respect. That's the Gabby Agbonlahor paradox - if he plays another three or four seasons he'll be the least liked player in history and the greatest living Villan. In a way you could say he's a dissonant paradoxical dilemma wrapped in a dichotomous conundrum. Gabby himself would probably say something similar. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 He'll get to 100 goals Go Gabby! (He bought me a shirt once and signed it for me, the best player in the world in my eyes ) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshVilla Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 He'll get to 100 goals Go Gabby! (He bought me a shirt once and signed it for me, the best player in the world in my eyes ) Did he manage to spell his own name correctly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 Watching Traore's introduction video made me realise why Gabby has never left us. Can you imagine him doing a couple of kick ups when signing for a club? I reckon he would struggle to do 3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 Watching Traore's introduction video made me realise why Gabby has never left us. Can you imagine him doing a couple of kick ups when signing for a club? I reckon he would struggle to do 3. Well Soldado managed to miss hitting the stands twice in a row at his presentation for Villareal, so Gabby should be just fine http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/tottenham_hotspur/221135/roberto-soldado-tries-to-hoof-football-into-crowd-during-villarreal-unveiling-and-misses-twice-video.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave J Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 I don't know what purpose the Yorke and Withe stat serves. They did it in fewer games. And as for scoring in seperate eleven seasons, when you consider it's only around 70 odd goals in those eleven seasons - that's just shocking, isn't it!? It's 84 - I guess shocking would be up to you, it puts him amongst our greatest goalscorers in the last 50 or 60 years. Watching him get them has been torturous at times and he's been below par for a while, I don't disagree that he deserves criticism and I'm hopeful that the challenge of the players we've brought in will force him to pull his socks up - but those 84 goals on their own I think deserve a little respect. That's the Gabby Agbonlahor paradox - if he plays another three or four seasons he'll be the least liked player in history and the greatest living Villan. I don't know what purpose the Yorke and Withe stat serves. They did it in fewer games. And as for scoring in seperate eleven seasons, when you consider it's only around 70 odd goals in those eleven seasons - that's just shocking, isn't it!? It's 84 - I guess shocking would be up to you, it puts him amongst our greatest goalscorers in the last 50 or 60 years. Watching him get them has been torturous at times and he's been below par for a while, I don't disagree that he deserves criticism and I'm hopeful that the challenge of the players we've brought in will force him to pull his socks up - but those 84 goals on their own I think deserve a little respect. That's the Gabby Agbonlahor paradox - if he plays another three or four seasons he'll be the least liked player in history and the greatest living Villan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave J Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 No it is shocking, given the amount of games he's played. Please don't try and tell any of us differently. It's shocking! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave J Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 I will match maqroll's post in the N'Zog thread. Gabby is an infuriating player, he had tons of natural (mostly physical) ability but his application is left wanting at most times and he just doesn't use his head. There's no excuse for that after 10 years of top flight football. I, unlike some, still desperately want him to recapture some of the form shown earlier in his career. He started to do that before his injury last season, which is why Sherwood will persist with him for a short while I'm sure. Clean slate etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave J Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 Doug, please " tons of natural ability" where, when? I've never seen this. This really is stretching it a little too far imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 Doug, please " tons of natural ability" where, when? I've never seen this. This really is stretching it a little too far imo. Mostly physical. Had. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 He's played more games out wide than he has up front. He's played in a lot of shit teams. He's done fine. Nobody is calling him one of the best in the World. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lerner's Driver Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 He can/has scored some great goals and even a few important goals, but he doesn't do either nearly enough. I wouldn't miss watching him play for us, simple as that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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