The Gabby Appreciation Thread - Update: 4 year deal

[adrenachrome]

Can someone please the post the clip of him going over the hordings at Liverpool? I'd like to pass it on to someone.

[PaulWinch again]

Gabby was superb against Liverpool, hopefully the extra few days will allow him time to recover.

[Kingthing]

Can someone please the post the clip of him going over the hordings at Liverpool? I'd like to pass it on to someone.

thanks.

[villa kicks]

UPDATE !!!

Gabs wants to be a midfield dynamo!!

I'd love to play centre midfield one day. I have always liked the idea of that.

"Sometimes in training in the past I have dropped back in there. I really enjoy it in there.

"I'll be Gabby the playmaker! Maybe when I'm 36 I will move there.

"When I have been in there in training, I have enjoyed getting on the ball, influencing the game and I like tackling too in there.

"I have played so many positions for Villa over the years. You're always learning and developing your game by doing that.

"But centre midfield is always a position I have enjoyed when I've been there. Hopefully I will be in there one day for Villa."

[villa kicks]

I think he d be awesome in a 3 with a 2 or as the centre one of the 3. I can never imagine him without pace though !!

[supertom]

I recall David Ginola once claiming he'd like to play as a center-half in the twilight of his career. This was either when he was at Spurs or with us. Of course for many obvious reasons, it never happened.

I'm not sure Gabby has quite enough vision to play CM, but I think he's got enough about him to play off the striker reasonably well. It gets him facing defenders and running at them.

[Villafirst]

WM saying Gabby not likely to play against The Baggies? Not good if true...

[Chipsticks]

I bet he felt really left out watching on last night, we know how much he loves the derbies. Was thinking about him on the way back, and how much the game would have suited him with how stretched the first half was.

I only realised last night that he's 27, still feels like he should be about 23 to me. I know it's years away yet but the day he retires, his last game at Villa Park, is going to be very, very emotional.

[saunders_heroes]

Looks like he's gonna miss the Everton game as well.

[JJ-AV]

The Lord of Aston strikes again.

He's a modern day Villa legend for me. There's one to discuss...

The Villa on TV, in all white, Agbonlahor new deal & scores the only goal of the game.

Beautiful.

[Percy McCarthy]

Read a lot on here about his shit goal ratio. I'd be interested to know what it's like in games against top sides (say Liverpool, Arse, both Mancs, Chelsea, Everton, Spurs), local derbies and bona fide relegation six-pointers.

[Ads]

He has scored some big goals in some great wins over the years.

[peter w]

Cometh the hour...

I wonder if his physique and the stress put on his muscles due to his pace and strength contributes to his injuries more than we acknowledge? very fast players usually have spells of being injured for lengthy periods of time which sees their returns dimish. it's to Gabby's credit that depsite this he is still important to us and still can contribute. Perhaps a lot of average performances are due in part to him not being fit due to prevailing injuries but because we need him he's played anyway. I suspect he's had a lot on injections to get him through ganmes and will have terrible problems when his career finishes. Maybe not as bad as Kevin Beattie but I wouldn't mind betting it wouldn't be far off.

[Dante Lavelli]

Cometh the hour...

I wonder if his physique and the stress put on his muscles due to his pace and strength contributes to his injuries more than we acknowledge? very fast players usually have spells of being injured for lengthy periods of time which sees their returns dimish. it's to Gabby's credit that depsite this he is still important to us and still can contribute. Perhaps a lot of average performances are due in part to him not being fit due to prevailing injuries but because we need him he's played anyway. I suspect he's had a lot on injections to get him through ganmes and will have terrible problems when his career finishes. Maybe not as bad as Kevin Beattie but I wouldn't mind betting it wouldn't be far off.

There may be some truth in that, we will probably never know.  Hopefully we'll be approaching an era where he can be rested when needed (ditto Weimann) either through the emergence of Jack Grelish (resurrection of Nzog?) or the purchase of a genuine inside forward (surely the next position to fix).

[silhillvilla]

I liked the 3 mins of time wasting as he tried to attach the captains armband onto Delph.