The Gabby Appreciation Thread - Update: 4 year deal

[ktvillan]

No , it doesn't piss on my bonfire. As you say it is your opinion but you are wrong, no two ways about it.

Ah the famous Chris Smith "you are just wrong" argument again. You  can't really argue with it, unless you are 5 years old.

Billy Walker, I disagree, he's a decent instinctive finisher at times and he has pace, but the best strikers have movement and intelligence - just look at how Bent loses his marker and makes clever runs into space.  Gabby doesn't really have that to his game.

[Clark W Griswold]

Well done Gabby. Although i don't see him as a real 'key player' for us in the future, he should still be an important part of the squad, getting plenty of game time every year. I just wouldn't use him for every minute of every game as MON pretty much used to do.

[dicedlam]

Not sure how to put this into an image format, but anybody who does can they please do it.
Thanks.

http://youtu.be/7w4kyclcMxM

[N'ZMAV]

The thing I like about Gabby is that when things haven't been going his way, in and out of the team, playing out of position etc is the fact he never complains, he loves this club.

I hope GH has learnt that Gabby is a striker and we'll get the best out of him in that role.

[Villa'Zawg]

I was delighted by his winner today, and by his other important goals, and he is a decent lad who puts the effort in.  However I stick by my opinion that he is a limited footballer who doesn't score enough, or consistently enough, to be a really top striker and doesn't appear adaptable or clever enough to offer much else.  It was one goal, it doesn't suddenly turn him into Messi.  Sorry if that pisses on anyone's bonfire but it's my opinion based on watching him over the last 4-5 years, not on one goal, however vital it may have been.   

   

He scored 45 goals in his first 4 full PL seasons. That is absolutely top class  for a player at the start of his career. He scores with his left, his right and his head and is a nightmare for defenders. He scores vital goals and scores against the very best teams. I can forgive him the fact he isn't Lionel Messi.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

Not playing him on the wing is the key.

Gabby is a centre forward through and through.

[Percy McCarthy]

I was delighted by his winner today, and by his other important goals, and he is a decent lad who puts the effort in.  However I stick by my opinion that he is a limited footballer who doesn't score enough, or consistently enough, to be a really top striker and doesn't appear adaptable or clever enough to offer much else.  It was one goal, it doesn't suddenly turn him into Messi.  Sorry if that pisses on anyone's bonfire but it's my opinion based on watching him over the last 4-5 years, not on one goal, however vital it may have been.   

   

He scored 45 goals in his first 4 full PL seasons. That is absolutely top class  for a player at the start of his career. He scores with his left, his right and his head and is a nightmare for defenders. He scores vital goals and scores against the very best teams. I can forgive him the fact he isn't Lionel Messi.

He does absolutely sod all except consistently make the most vital contributions in the most important games.

[Diablo]

Get in Gabby!! Keep him fit and he'll score goals and cause any team problems with his pace. Not necessarily the most natural footballer but willing to learn and put the work in - an absolute star!!

[Ads]

Gabby is not a great goal scorer. He'll never score as many as Bent. But he is a scorer of important goals.

He's contributed massively to our recent good seasons with his solid goal contribution. He'll continue to do so in the future. A hard working player who improves year on year. He's suffered through injury and being played out wide this campaign, but he'll be back next year with 12-14 goals.

[Nelly]

He's played through injury for us, scored goals that we still celebrate today and more than anything, he's one of us. That's not sympathy, it's the icing on the cake.

[Chris Smith]

No , it doesn't piss on my bonfire. As you say it is your opinion but you are wrong, no two ways about it.

Ah the famous Chris Smith "you are just wrong" argument again. You  can't really argue with it, unless you are 5 years old.

Billy Walker, I disagree, he's a decent instinctive finisher at times and he has pace, but the best strikers have movement and intelligence - just look at how Bent loses his marker and makes clever runs into space.  Gabby doesn't really have that to his game.

I think your judgement of the player is wrong but it's just my opinion, sorry if that pisses on your bonfire.

I could repeat all the good points put forward elsewhere in the thread but what would be the point? He's a good player with a record of delivering when it really matters. As a young man blessed with a Brummie accent he's had to put up with the inane lack of intelligence criticism all through his career but he keep ramming the words down the throats of his detractors. Long may it continue.

[Edvard Remberg]

Where the F... is the like button???

Get IN!!!!!

My topic after the goal was about how he scores important goals - and Curbishley and Wilkins said that he is now second top scorer for Villa in the prem (i know football was born then). I am guessing he surpassed Angel - but what the f..... difference his goals have made? He scores in important games - Angel just scored.

[Edvard Remberg]

Oh - and playing him as a striker (i asked Shaun Teale about this, he agreed) ties up 2 denfenders from the oposite, leaves room for Young Downing and Bent . If he just does that, it opens the game.

[darren woolley]

Love him Gabby your the man.

[not3bad]

He's suffered through injury and being played out wide this campaign, but he'll be back next year with 12-14 goals.

And as a 12-14 goal striker who has a habit of scoring important goals, is this not the striker to play alongside Bent that everyone has just been scratching their heads about?