Gabby - 'Fans negativity affects players'

[Percy McCarthy]

I'm sorry you took it as a dig Greg, I thought you raised a good point. I hope you are coming down, let's face it, we need everyone we can drag in there at the moment.

Come and introduce yourself if you're at the Bolton game, I'll be selling a new issue opposite the church.

[Clampy]

depends if you believe i haven't been down Paulie. I keep stum because its nice seeing Percy making a twat of himself and not realising it

Normally i look out for people with 'gregnash' on the back of their top. How else would i know if he's there?

[Percy McCarthy]

He wouldn't give the game away that easily. He'd rather keep it a secret because apparently if you believed him when he said he doesn't go that makes you look a twat.

[JUAN PABLO]

Barry Bannon is on talksport in a bit , expect alot of the same

[Villanation]

Gabby, we all appreciate the fact you would bend over backwards if Aston Villa asked you to, however there comes a time when other than a captain you simply have to abandon a sinking ship and sometimes its necessary to do that to bring about change, change is what's needed and to believe that Gabby who only a couple of seasons ago was well and truly on the up in his career and the club he played for, can't now see this difference beggars belief.

Not buying Gabbs and actually you need to wise up because you yourself have been sidelined for a 20ML player who I can't tell the difference if he's in the side or not and in actual fact Gabby himself was doing every bit as good a job when we where competing at the top, if not better, silly silly comments.

 

[villa `cross the mersey]

Best if Gabby keeps his mouth shut from now on.

....and his trouser zip

[Greg N'Ash]

He wouldn't give the game away that easily. He'd rather keep it a secret because apparently if you believed him when he said he doesn't go that makes you look a twat.

well i was outed on here for attending Villa Park a good year ago by another Forumer so I'm sorry you never saw it. Presumably this was when you were MIA from here for 6 months after the pube-headed one deserted you so i'll let you off for not updating your wallchart.

[Percy McCarthy]

He wouldn't give the game away that easily. He'd rather keep it a secret because apparently if you believed him when he said he doesn't go that makes you look a twat.

well i was outed on here for attending Villa Park a good year ago by another Forumer so I'm sorry you never saw it. Presumably this was when you were MIA from here for 6 months after the pube-headed one deserted you so i'll let you off for not updating your wallchart.

You're confusing me with someone else Greg, I never stopped posting when O'Neill left, it's easily checked if you can be bothered. I obviously wasn't paying attention when you were outed. Sorry if that makes you feel insignificant.

Not interested in the olive branch then?

[not3bad]

I think Gabby has been put up to this.

I also think that McLeish has had a very easy time.   'Fans hate McLeish' is just the lazy journalism the papers fill their pages with.

I would go so far as to say that it is the duty of every loyal Villa fan to give the manager, the owner and the board plenty of criticism.

Why do I say that?   I will tell you.

Decisions were made at the highest level in the club to allow O'Neill to present himself to the world of football and beyond as being terribly wronged by Aston Villa.   Not a single word of defence was made public by the club.   That was the first refusal by the board and the owner to place any value on the feelings and the sensitivities of the fans.

The second instance was the appointment of an old man with health problems who openly preferred his ties to Liverpool to ties with Aston Villa.   Houllier was the board's man.   No thought at all was given to the fact that the fans could not get on with him and that the Frenchman did not care.

The third instance was the appointment at very considerable expense the failed manager of our bitterest rivals.   I do not suppose anybody in authority at Villa Park ever even gave a second thought to the supporters' feelings and even if they did the answer would have come back "We run the club, not the fans.   If they don't like it they can lump it."

The fourth instance of disregard for the fans is the totally deliberate pursuit of percentage, safety first football.   I do not suppose for one minute that anybody on the board has ever given a second thought to giving the fans value for the money they pay to get to and to watch Villa games.

The fifth instance of disregard for the feelings of the fans has been the selling of our best players.   Big offer comes in, player goes out.   Not the slightest consideration is given to the fact that most of us would prefer to watch James Milner in a Villa shirt than Charles N'Zogbia.

Five glaring instances which illustrate the mind set of those who run Aston Villa that the fans' feelings are of no consequence whatever.

The only time fans start to be considered to have any importance are the circumstances Rangers find themselves in.   When everything else has gone there are still the fans.   They will still be there.

That is what is wrong with Gabby's statement.   The fans are the ones who have to do all the pain, not the players.   I am genuinely surprised that Gabby allowed himself to be used to criticize the fans.

I agree with almost all of this but I find the statement "Not the slightest consideration is given to the fact that most of us would prefer to watch James Milner in a Villa shirt than Charles N'Zogbia" slightly bizarre.  For a start Milner left a year before N'Zogbia joined, for another thing when moneybags Man City call there is little a club that failed to qualify for the champions league can do (just as there will be little Arsenal will be able to do to stop Van Persie going to them if they fail to finish in the top 4).  And N'Zogbia was brought in to replace Steward Downing.  After the manner of Downing's departure, would Villa fans prefer to see him in a Villa shirt to N'Zogbia?

[TheSandman]

Gabby is as much to blame as any of the players. He's not been good enough this season, albeit playing out of position, but if he was truely a good enoguh forward we'd never have boguht Bent in the first place to dislodge him from his favoured position. He's lucky he's a fans favourite at the moment, as he's not really contributed a fat lot since November.

I'd disagree that Gabby has not been good enough this season. He's been his usual self. A few runs where he's looked sheer class punctuated by runs where he's looked poor. It's the same every season and exactly why I get irritated when people say that he's absolutely world class during one of his hot streaks or when someone says get rid when he's doing his best impression of the spare prick at a whore's wedding. He's a very good, if somewhat inconsistent player.

I dare say that he will be embarking on another hot streak in a few weeks.

[Vanilla]

It's not easy when the player who admitted a week ago that he can't wait for the season to end is now discussing fans' negativity.

Villa isn't a happy place at the moment; the club know it. So they will be leaning on the likes of Gabby - popular players - to try and put out these kind of interviews.

Also he did make reference to the 'good old days' some weeks ago in regards to his strike partnership with Carew.

The talk of the overhaul of the squad, with seemingly a bulk of the players being shown the door can't help morale much. This talk may be a ruse to encourage players to play for their AV future, but it may conversely encourage players to think why should I bother putting my all in for each game anyway, thinking they'll just play out their skins if any scouts are in.

[Jimmy Smash]

I think in this case we could describe Gabby as a "useful idiot."

[Phil from the upper holte]

What did Bannan say?

[Ian.]

Gabby is as much to blame as any of the players. He's not been good enough this season, albeit playing out of position, but if he was truely a good enoguh forward we'd never have boguht Bent in the first place to dislodge him from his favoured position. He's lucky he's a fans favourite at the moment, as he's not really contributed a fat lot since November.

I'd disagree that Gabby has not been good enough this season. He's been his usual self. A few runs where he's looked sheer class punctuated by runs where he's looked poor. It's the same every season and exactly why I get irritated when people say that he's absolutely world class during one of his hot streaks or when someone says get rid when he's doing his best impression of the spare prick at a whore's wedding. He's a very good, if somewhat inconsistent player.

I dare say that he will be embarking on another hot streak in a few weeks.

I hope he does, we bloody need it right now. I like Gabby a lot. If only he had that knack of making those runs like Bent does he might just have played more games up front instead of the wing.
I don't believe his finishing is any worse than Bent's but Bent makes so many chances for himself because of his ability to get in there.
Time for him to come good and finish the season on a good note.

[Ron Manager]

I dont know if Gabby ever visits the hallowed halls of H&V, but Gabby if you do, please be careful. Towing the line and being a media whore puppet will turn the fans against you.
 I would say aprox 80% of fans would list GA as their favourite player - great to watch, loyal and truly one of us, not someone thats been brought in and taken to heart but a local lad and one of the fans. I dont know if its in his contract to have to give press releases when called upon but it doesnt fucking wash - we are not stupid. If the team are so behind the manager why are they not playing for him? If they are and are indeed giving him 100% then we are failing because his management ability is crap and the cause of why we are where we are . Thus making our negativity towards him is justified.

80%! well I must be in the minority then. I dont think the word great applies to Agbonlahor.For gods sake the most hes ever scored is about thirteen league goals.Loyal...he lives in Brum has an easy life with plenty of money and shows no intention of leaving the area to improve himself. Hes not one of us he's a player we are supporters.

Some of you lads seem to think he should be talked of in the same breath as Hitchens Hateley Gray and Withe that really is laughable.Hes about as good as Dougan was at Villa Park...and that is poor