Gabby

[cheltenhamlion]

Dr Brown Bear does work hard to be fair.

Nowhere near as hard as Miss Rabbit.

[Rudy65]

I think he has plenty to offer at this level when fit and motivated. He's just suffered quite badly of late with injuries.

Somebody yesterday to work the channels was what we needed instead of the utterly moronic firing it into Davis to recycle the ball time and time again.

Absolute nonsense re Gabby. When 'fit and motivated' is laughable. When has he been either since about 2011

[rob_bridge]

I'd rather bring McCormack in from the cold to be honest. At least he's done something in the last 5 years

They can have a wall jumping competition.

[Ads]

I think he has plenty to offer at this level when fit and motivated. He's just suffered quite badly of late with injuries.

Somebody yesterday to work the channels was what we needed instead of the utterly moronic firing it into Davis to recycle the ball time and time again.

Absolute nonsense re Gabby. When 'fit and motivated' is laughable. When has he been either since about 2011

He was fit and motivated against the Noses and Hull and looked a good player st this level. He can't keep himself fit which is a big problem, but a calf tear isn't exactly his fault.

[ciggiesnbeer]

I don't think we can afford to turn our noses up at him right now. If he plays he plays. I hope he does well.

[Ads]

He would have been a much better option, working the channel, than biffing it into that lanky twat of a centre half on Saturday.

[eddiemunster]

I was told some years back, that when the scouts watched him and his brother, the brother was by far the better footballer, but Gabby was a "Usain Bolt type, who could be taught how to play football". Unfortunately, you cannot teach a plank of wood to become a useful  item of furniture. A familiar failing of our scouting system by the sound of it.

[saunders_heroes]

I was told some years back, that when the scouts watched him and his brother, the brother was by far the better footballer, but Gabby was a "Usain Bolt type, who could be taught how to play football". Unfortunately, you cannot teach a plank of wood to become a useful  item of furniture. A familiar failing of our scouting system by the sound of it.

He’s scored than 80 goals for the Villa. Not bad for a plank of wood.

[Ad@m]

I was told some years back, that when the scouts watched him and his brother, the brother was by far the better footballer, but Gabby was a "Usain Bolt type, who could be taught how to play football". Unfortunately, you cannot teach a plank of wood to become a useful  item of furniture. A familiar failing of our scouting system by the sound of it.

He’s scored than 80 goals for the Villa. Not bad for a plank of wood.

Absolutely.  He's not entirely been a disaster - he just gave up six years ago, so how he's lasted this long at the club is a complete mystery.

I don't think we can afford to turn our noses up at him right now. If he plays he plays. I hope he does well.

The trouble is, this kind of mentality (ie accepting of players who are demonstrably not good enough) is how we ended up in this division in the first place.  Keep it up and sooner or later we'll be another tier down.

[dicedlam]

I was told some years back, that when the scouts watched him and his brother, the brother was by far the better footballer, but Gabby was a "Usain Bolt type, who could be taught how to play football". Unfortunately, you cannot teach a plank of wood to become a useful  item of furniture. A familiar failing of our scouting system by the sound of it.

He’s scored than 80 goals for the Villa. Not bad for a plank of wood.

...in 389 games. Strike rate = 0.22 per game. Not very good for a plank of wood is it?

[boutrosboutrosgnarly]

A few goals against that lot does not make up for his shit attitude and apparent lack of dedication to keeping himself fit the last 5 or so years.Get rid

[paul_e]

Absolutely.  He's not entirely been a disaster - he just gave up six years ago, so how he's lasted this long at the club is a complete mystery.

I agree completely and this is the problem that some people on here seem to be missing.  as a 24/25 year old bloke who had a decent record in the premier league and had been involved in the England setup he appeared to just give up trying.  For 5 years (until MON left) his record was 50 in 186 which is excellent for a young striker who was often playing as the 2nd striker and was doing a lot of work down the channels.  Since then he's had 1 good season (Lambert's first year) and has struggled to get 1 in 6 the rest of the time.

[Chris Jameson]

I was told some years back, that when the scouts watched him and his brother, the brother was by far the better footballer, but Gabby was a "Usain Bolt type, who could be taught how to play football". Unfortunately, you cannot teach a plank of wood to become a useful  item of furniture. A familiar failing of our scouting system by the sound of it.

He’s scored than 80 goals for the Villa. Not bad for a plank of wood.

I'd still rather have a plank of wood at the club.

[Toronto Villa]

Outside of the personal stuff which has discussed at length, what has happened to him as a footballer was somewhat inevitable. Once he lost his blinding pace, be it through injuries or lack of professionalism he was always going to come unstuck as a footballer. He wasn’t a bad footballer but his paces masked areas that he should have worked on. He took his career for granted and it should have been far richer both domestically and internationally.

[Bad English]

All I can say is that he has been removed from my football wankbank.