Gabby at Arsenal's Christmas party

[peter w]

Come on Gabby. Prove the bastards wrong, son.

[Rigadon]

Come on Gabby. Prove the bastards wrong, son.

I have no idea if he's terminally 'gone' but he still, just about, has some credit in the bank with me and I would love it if he did start to turn it on, even just for a few months. 

[Bad English]

All he will be turning on is his iPhone to check his balance.

[dave.woodhall]

Due to body mass expansion of alarming proportions, we can forget  about his pace.

However, there is much to be said for his sumo wrestling skills in the box, particularly from dead balls, which are part and parcel of the BPL. This should not be overlooked, and is not trivial. Apart from taking a defender out  by blocking them off with his prodigious girth, with a moderate run he could form a mini solar eclipse and leave a couple of them in the dark, functioning like a not so small moon.

And again, although the tippy tappy tenedency are in denial on this physical aspect of our game, I would not fancy the chances of a defender who is stupid enough to let slack jawed fellow get them in an an arm lock, because they will be needing treatment for dislocation or damaged tendons.

Gabby has more yellow cards than goals in the last 5 seasons. His only weapon is his back side, which he spends pushing into defenders. Then standing there with his mouth open (as always) when a foul is awarded against him. Thick fucker has robbed a living. At least it's kept him out of prison.

You clearly don't like him very much.  But prison? What do you know about him that would give you that impression?

I agree. That sort of comment is well out of order.

[saunders_heroes]

Come on Gabby. Prove the bastards wrong, son.

I have no idea if he's terminally 'gone' but he still, just about, has some credit in the bank with me and I would love it if he did start to turn it on, even just for a few months. 

Me too. He's past his best, no question, but he's not the architect of Villa's downfall so I'm not going to scapegoat him for it. That blame lays at the chairman's door.
I'd love him to prove everyone wrong.

[Clampy]

I think he's past his best and has been for a while but i'd keep him until the end of the season then let him go.

[Bad English]

Me too. He's past his best, no question, but he's not the architect of Villa's downfall so I'm not going to scapegoat him for it. That blame lays at the chairman's door.
I'd love him to prove everyone wrong.

I think he will just give his usual a hundredth of ten per cent effort and I want to bet against you saunders.

[PaulTheVillan]

Due to body mass expansion of alarming proportions, we can forget  about his pace.

However, there is much to be said for his sumo wrestling skills in the box, particularly from dead balls, which are part and parcel of the BPL. This should not be overlooked, and is not trivial. Apart from taking a defender out  by blocking them off with his prodigious girth, with a moderate run he could form a mini solar eclipse and leave a couple of them in the dark, functioning like a not so small moon.

And again, although the tippy tappy tenedency are in denial on this physical aspect of our game, I would not fancy the chances of a defender who is stupid enough to let slack jawed fellow get them in an an arm lock, because they will be needing treatment for dislocation or damaged tendons.

Gabby has more yellow cards than goals in the last 5 seasons. His only weapon is his back side, which he spends pushing into defenders. Then standing there with his mouth open (as always) when a foul is awarded against him. Thick fucker has robbed a living. At least it's kept him out of prison.

You clearly don't like him very much.  But prison? What do you know about him that would give you that impression?

I agree. That sort of comment is well out of order.

Ok, maybe he wouldn't have ended up in prison. 

On the dole? I think so. 

[PaulTheVillan]

Come on Gabby. Prove the bastards wrong, son.

He is due one of his 3 good games a season.

[Chris Jameson]

When he next scores, which by my calculations will be in April (not prepared to commit to a year), he will do that finger to the mouth 'celebration' as an answer to his critics.

[edgysatsuma89]

I don't think anyone is using Flabby Aintgonnascore as a scapegoat. Just correctly stating how massively shit he is.

[ktvillan]

Due to body mass expansion of alarming proportions, we can forget  about his pace.

However, there is much to be said for his sumo wrestling skills in the box, particularly from dead balls, which are part and parcel of the BPL. This should not be overlooked, and is not trivial. Apart from taking a defender out  by blocking them off with his prodigious girth, with a moderate run he could form a mini solar eclipse and leave a couple of them in the dark, functioning like a not so small moon.

And again, although the tippy tappy tenedency are in denial on this physical aspect of our game, I would not fancy the chances of a defender who is stupid enough to let slack jawed fellow get them in an an arm lock, because they will be needing treatment for dislocation or damaged tendons.

Sadly Gabby isn't even good for that.  Two goals conceded at home v spurs last season, one was down to Gabby letting his mind wander and presenting a barrier as tough as the skin off a rice pudding whilst the guy he was marking got a virtually free header.  The second goal came directly from him not tracking back on a runner from midfield.  He's still arguably marginally more useful (or marginally less useless) than having a lamp post up front until/unless Garde wants to play to Gestede's only strength and start pumping non-stop high balls in. 

[kippaxvilla2]

As I have said before on here, he isn't helping himself, but by a strange culmination of events, he is probably still one of our only small ray of hopes of actually getting out of this mess.  And you just know that if he departs and ends up at Norwich he will start turning it on to our detriment.

[Olof's Beard]

I think the one thing you can say in Gabby's defence this season, is he was playing up front in the only game where we looked genuinely dangerous and slick going forward - Leicester away. He ran the channels well and brought Gil and Grealish into the game that day.

[rob_bridge]

Gabby currently makes Simon Stainrod look like a caring grafter