The_Steve Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 3 hours ago, Stevo985 said: It's mad that he only scored 76 goals for Villa. Ever. Really good strikers knock that out in 2 seasons. Steve Bruce has more career goals than Gabby Averaged 0.23 goals per match in the PL. His regression was staggering. I can only recall 3 seasons where he scored more than 10 league goals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom_avfc Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 30 minutes ago, Zatman said: West Ham have Antonio with I think 51 goals Everton another would expect would have a player on the list Gabby has 74. I'd also add that he played quite a number of games on the wing and largely played for a dreadful side once all of the better players were sold around him. I think its a real shame how it all ended for Gabby to be honest. The derby goals and his better years all seem to be completely forgotten because he turned out to be the idiot that we all knew him to be from the start. I'd rather remember the good times he gave us until Lerner lost interest in the club to be honest. Some of my favourite moments watching Villa centre around Gabby (I'm thinking of winners at The Hawthorns, St Andrews and Old Trafford in particular). 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 Heck of a decline https://m.imgur.com/5lmGsln Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom13 Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 Rather forget he ever played for us tbh 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Xela Posted May 6, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted May 6, 2022 It all ended in a pile of shit, but I'm not going to forget he was a very effective player for us at his peak. He was good enough for England. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icouldtelltheworld Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 Was finished as a footballer after Lamberts second season, never really came back from that injury he got falling over the advertising boards against Liverpool. He'd been in OK form though for a year or so leading up to that. If he'd left after that season we'd all have a very different view of his time at the club. Everything that came after that point has tainted things badly really. Part of his problem is that football changed and as he lost a bit of pace his limitations got exposed. He was useful as a second striker supporting Carew, but never had the technical ability to play up front alone or as a wide forward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 20 minutes ago, Xela said: It all ended in a pile of shit, but I'm not going to forget he was a very effective player for us at his peak. He was good enough for England. Same for me Hard to know exactly how or why it went wrong with him, perfect storm of shitness after MON left, maybe he reached the point where he'd made too much money and had too big a contract to give a **** anymore, maybe it was injuries and losing that yard of pace, maybe MON tickled his bollocks in a way that houllier didnt, maybe he was always just lazy and based on talksport maybe he always enjoyed a drink, based on his retirement maybe he didn't actually enjoy football that much The thing for me is that no one at the club ever got hold of him properly, no one sorted his diet or seemingly his gym programme out, my completely baseless tin hat conspiracy theory is that ged having worked with Owen and seen him go to shit after injuries took his speed told gabby to bulk up and add more to his game, gabby nor the club controlled it and he royally **** it up and then stopped giving a shit and stole a living Either way I do think whoever made the decision to bulk up has a lot to answer for and the clubs lack of professionalism is every bit as bad as his, where was our fitness team and coaching staff while he was piling weight on? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 Just now, icouldtelltheworld said: never really came back from that injury he got falling over the advertising boards against Liverpool. He'd been in OK form though for a year or so leading up to that. He was unplayable that game up until that point, from memory we were winning, maybe even 2 up and went on to draw, he was smashing them 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zhan_Zhuang Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 Agbonlahor's problem was the champagne and the women, he's admitted that. Alcohol and in particular the champagne had a physical effect on his body which he could never repair. I liked him in his pomp, what a great few seasons he had and his pace was frightening but he was stealing a living at the end. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icouldtelltheworld Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 1 minute ago, villa4europe said: He was unplayable that game up until that point, from memory we were winning, maybe even 2 up and went on to draw, he was smashing them We were all over them and they just couldn't handle him. Remember him having an excellent game the season before in the Sunderland 6-1 game too. Sad how it all turned out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelVilla Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 O'Neill thread bumped and posts in Gabby's thread. I think maybe Gabby's problem was the MON-regime and how unprofessional it was and he became accustomed to that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 Has been said before that the decline of Villa and the decline of Gabby pretty much went hand in hand. Now that we are on the up, he has somehow got a job on TV and became important again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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villa4europe Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 Where to start... 5 point plan on the graphics but he's talking about a step plan Get more out of the youngsters but not get more out of the 2 strikers we have which basically means step 2 would negate step 1 The more clean sheets thing makes no mention of the holding midfielder which is out biggest defensive problem and in theory we've fixed Step 5 on how to get in to Europe... Get in to Europe... That doesn't make sense He gets paid for this shit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 And the worst thing about that - when we have clowns like Danny Murphy talk about us it's blatant that he doesn't actually watch us play Gabby is probably the most vocal villa voice in the media now colly ore is wherever he is, listening to that would you say gabby actually watches us play? I'm not convinced Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom13 Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 54 minutes ago, The_Steve said: Be more clinical and keep more clean sheets? Why didn't we think of that before! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom13 Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 Only just saw your meme had it covered Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 55 minutes ago, Tom13 said: Be more clinical and keep more clean sheets? Why didn't we think of that before! Its why he didnt rate Remi Garde Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hornso Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 4 hours ago, The_Steve said: Still better than his last plan... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted June 17, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted June 17, 2022 10 hours ago, villa4europe said: And the worst thing about that - when we have clowns like Danny Murphy talk about us it's blatant that he doesn't actually watch us play Gabby is probably the most vocal villa voice in the media now colly ore is wherever he is, listening to that would you say gabby actually watches us play? I'm not convinced I am not even convinced he’s a villa supporter. Awhile back they asked him how many times we had won the FA Cup and he said twice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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