Gabby Agbonlahor

[robbo1874]

Not a great by any means but i'd say he'll go down as a cult hero. He always seemed to start a season quite prolifically then would have a lean spell after Christmas. Some good memories though including the Man City hat-trick and a stunner vs Blackburn in the McCleish season. I suppose my favourite derby goal was at St Andrews - not the Ridgewell game but the second one, 1-0  - where he scored in the dying minutes.

i think if he hadn’t have taken the piss out of the people who paid his wages the last few years,then he probably would have been considered a cult hero, in the local lad made good vein. You can see from some of the comments on here though, that opinion is split, to say the least.

[KevinGage]

Shitebag.

How can you have a lecturer for a father and still expect three points in the early rounds of the League Cup.

[Bad English]

He'll go down as a cult hero. .

Bleeding autocorrect, eh? ;-)

[Clampy]

A good servant without being a great one. Should have scored more than he did (he seemed to miss a lot of one on one chances).

[Villan For Life]

He'll go down as a cult hero. .

Bleeding autocorrect, eh? ;-)

Coffee spluttering moment there BE!

[BoVillan esq]

Honestly couldn't care less if his main attribute was pace, fact is he delivered at the top level, still the clubs highest scorer, probably will be for many decades to come, problem for Gabby was this insane sense of loyalty that doesn't exist in football anymore, you could say to his credit, you could also say stupidity, early on there was a real good player in there, when Wenger offered MON 15 million for him, Gabby should have gone, from that point, probably would have continued with his England career, instead, he continued to play for a club in terrible decline, bad manager after terrible manager, no direction, played out of position, screwed him up, would seriously question his sense of ambition, not his football in his early days, Blues fans hated him with a vengeance.

[Rudy65]

Honestly couldn't care less if his main attribute was pace, fact is he delivered at the top level, still the clubs highest scorer, probably will be for many decades to come, problem for Gabby was this insane sense of loyalty that doesn't exist in football anymore, you could say to his credit, you could also say stupidity, early on there was a real good player in there, when Wenger offered MON 15 million for him, Gabby should have gone, from that point, probably would have continued with his England career, instead, he continued to play for a club in terrible decline, bad manager after terrible manager, no direction, played out of position, screwed him up, would seriously question his sense of ambition, not his football in his early days, Blues fans hated him with a vengeance.

Awesome early in his career but faded badly. Whilst the club was in terrible decline he did nothing to help arrest that. I look back now and reminisce about Gidman, Gray, Mortimer, Graydon, 81-82 players, Merson, Barry Milner, Young but rarely Gabby, apart from the Blose winners

[saunders_heroes]

Faded badly toward the end, but that was during arguably the worst period in our history, but I’ll always have a soft spot for him for scoring goals in the big games, and at times he was dynamite. Fantastic in derby games as well, and Small Heath fans hated him because of it.
Enjoy your retirement, Gabby.

[Rigadon]

In a way, it was bad luck his decline coincided with the clubs (links there of course).  Because if the club had continued to challenge at the top end of the premier league he'd have been a well-thought of squad player in his later years rather than first choice centre forward battling relegation.  Didn't help himself with the unprofessionalism at the end, so I get the fact some fans won't remember him fondly. 

Anyway, scored a shit load of goals and was a local kid living the dream. 

[BoVillan esq]

In a way, it was bad luck his decline coincided with the clubs (links there of course).  Because if the club had continued to challenge at the top end of the premier league he'd have been a well-thought of squad player in his later years rather than first choice centre forward battling relegation.  Didn't help himself with the unprofessionalism at the end, so I get the fact some fans won't remember him fondly. 

Anyway, scored a shit load of goals and was a local kid living the dream.

Well said, this just fills your heart with joy watching him sink the yobs and denying them anything.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzCqjGIq1L4

[The_ads]

Guy on twitter made an excellent point yesterday. Juan Pablo Angel scored about 30 less goals and was arguably less effective than Gabby in terms of all round game, yet JPA returning to VP a hero today and Gabby consistently ridiculed.

[dave shelley]

He'll go down as a cult hero. .

Bleeding autocorrect, eh? ;-)

He never could spell. 😉

[Toronto Villa]

Guy on twitter made an excellent point yesterday. Juan Pablo Angel scores about 30 less goals and was arguably less effective than Gabby in terms of all round game, yet JPA returning to VP a hero tomorrow and Gabby consistently ridiculed.

Gabby should have been all of that. But despite the stats he turned his back on the club when it needed him most. And given he was one of us is why it hurt the most.

[PeterWithesShin]

Gabby played twice as many games which tends to help, and if he returns in 12 years time I'll bet he would get a good reception as well.

[Mellin]

Guy on twitter made an excellent point yesterday. Juan Pablo Angel scored about 30 less goals and was arguably less effective than Gabby in terms of all round game, yet JPA returning to VP a hero today and Gabby consistently ridiculed.

Not even subtle manipulation of statistics to suit an argument there. Gabby was here for thirteen years, Angel six. It's all about context and whilst Angel had shortcomings, you could never question his attitude.