Gabby

[Tayls_7]

All Gabby apologists should be put against a wall and shot at by the man himself until they die of old age.

[Villa75]

A half fit Gabby would have offered more than Davis today.

He's only been half fit for the past 5 years

And he's still better than Davis.

[Villa75]

All Gabby apologists should be put against a wall and shot at by the man himself until they die of old age.

I'd rather Davis shot at me, given the choice. I'll dress in a goalkeeper's kit and have no chance of being hit.

[PeterWithesShin]

Doesn't matter how good he is, and it isn't very good these days, as he's rarely fit enough to actually play he's pretty much useless to us.

[Pete]

Ad I've mentioned elsewhere, since the start of 2014 he's scored 11 in 87. Nowhere near enough to warrant a contrct. Free transfer to Walsall.

That's not too bad for an ageing winger.

It's the sort of figures our out an out striker, Keinan Davis, would kill for.

If he comes back over Xmas and New Year and shows he's still got something to add (all he needs to do - apparently - is 'hold the ball up'), then give him a one year extension.

Are you seriously comparing a young lad who has just broken into the first team and helped us into a strong position at the top of the table with a lazy, unfit, unprofessional waster who has taken the piss out of the club for years and is happy to sit out his ridiculous contract until it runs down before he sees out his career in the lower leagues? Seriously?

No. They're not comparable. But if we're going to;

Gabby has scored dozens of important goals for the club at the very top level, predominantly being played as a winger. Davis (20 years old in 2 months) is struggling to score in the 2nd division as an out-and-out striker and, looking at his performances so far, I doubt he would ever get anywhere close to Gabby's PL goals record, even if he played twice as long.

Sorry I have a different opinion to you. You'll just have to like it lump it, I suppose.

Gabby isn't a winger, he's supposed to score goals.

Anyroad.....Gabby is 31 and has 75 league goals. A half decent forward will do that in five years or less. Davis is young and not the finished product, but I'd hope he's aiming for more than the six goals a season he'd need to match Gabby.

[Villa75]

Davis will never score 70+ goals at the top level, even if you let him take every penalty we ever get (which, predominantly as a winger, Gabby never did).

We had well this shite with Delfouneso. According to some he was going to outscore Gabby in the PL. Where's he now?

Let's stop fawning over every young player that comes along, and wait and see. Davis was lauded after a couple of games. Sky did a piece on him, and he thinks he's made of already. Hence what we are seeing.

He needs bringing back down to earth, and a good kick up the arse, before he goes the same way as the previous few 'better than Gabby' pretenders.

[dave shelley]

He needs bringing back down to earth, and a good kick up the arse, before he goes the same way as the previous few 'better than Gabby' pretenders.

Open goal opportunity there lads, anyone willing to take a shot?

[Bad English]

It's Agbonlahor that needs several kicks up the arse until it ends up in Walsall along with the rest of him.

[Tayls_7]

The argument shouldn't be on the merit of Davis vice Agbonlahor. The kid is doing his best. Gabby shat on us from a huge height and anyone who cares to forget it has no shame.

[Toronto Villa]

If he gets a new deal we simply won’t have learned from our mistakes. Thanks for some great memories Gabby but time to move on. Take Richards with you.

[Meanwood Villa]

When is he going to be available for selection anyway?

[Pete]

I have no idea how many goals Davis will score. This thread is about Gabby though. And 11 goals in four years, at a rate of 1 in 8, is nowhere near good enough.

[Villa75]

The argument shouldn't be on the merit of Davis vice Agbonlahor. The kid is doing his best. Gabby shat on us from a huge height and anyone who cares to forget it has no shame.

A myth that's been put about on forums, by a minority, that's become 'fact'.

I've seen it develop over the last few years. Everything that went wrong, "Gabby must be behind it/involved." Innuendo and rumour, all 'backed up' by the 'evidence' of Gabby on a bong. Big deal.

Not totally surprising. Ellis had gone and some needed a new 'Antichrist'. It sure wasn't going to be Lerner, not with the fawning over his arrival and him not being Ellis, so the established players took the brunt as everything turned to shit. One by one these players moved on, which leaves Gabby to take the brunt.

Gabby gets his name sung from The Holte by all of us that remember, as recently as last season, the great memories he has given us. Including scoring goals against the very best in the PL, and winning goals at that.

Compare that to Davis "doing his best", with two virtually meaningless goals in games where hammered poor Championship sides.

I hope Davis proves me wrong and becomes a great striker four us, scoring 70+ PL goals, but don't make me laugh by trying to devalue what Gabby has achieved with our club, whilst at the same time 'bigging up' two Championship goals for Davis.

[Bad English]

Nobody is devaluing what the fat waster has achieved. However, none of his goals, bursts of speed, late winners at the Sty will help us go up as they only exist in the history books and your wankbank now. So sing his name all you like but remember that he is stealing a wage from us and hasn't performed for years.

[taylorsworkrate]

The argument shouldn't be on the merit of Davis vice Agbonlahor. The kid is doing his best. Gabby shat on us from a huge height and anyone who cares to forget it has no shame.

A myth that's been put about on forums, by a minority, that's become 'fact'.

I've seen it develop over the last few years. Everything that went wrong, "Gabby must be behind it/involved." Innuendo and rumour, all 'backed up' by the 'evidence' of Gabby on a bong. Big deal.

Not totally surprising. Ellis had gone and some needed a new 'Antichrist'. It sure wasn't going to be Lerner, not with the fawning over his arrival and him not being Ellis, so the established players took the brunt as everything turned to shit. One by one these players moved on, which leaves Gabby to take the brunt.

Gabby gets his name sung from The Holte by all of us that remember, as recently as last season, the great memories he has given us. Including scoring goals against the very best in the PL, and winning goals at that.

Compare that to Davis "doing his best", with two virtually meaningless goals in games where hammered poor Championship sides.

I hope Davis proves me wrong and becomes a great striker four us, scoring 70+ PL goals, but don't make me laugh by trying to devalue what Gabby has achieved with our club, whilst at the same time 'bigging up' two Championship goals for Davis.

What exactly has he achieved with this club?

Even in his most prolific seasons, playing alongside genuinely good players such as Young, Milner, Barry, Carew etc, his goalscoring record was mediocre at best for a striker (this winger nonsense you spout won't become true no matter how often you say it).

The last 5 years of Gabby being overweight, unfit and uninterested are certainly no myth. His attitude was so poor during the relegation season that I'm shocked the club didn't terminate his contract on the grounds of gross misconduct.