Gabby Agbonlahor

Pub team player (and that is being insulting to pub teams).

If after the three poor performances so far this season Tim cannot see Gabby needs replacing in the squad then I will start to worry. We need a new striker and we need one now.

In the last three seasons we didn't really have the team around Benteke, this season we have but no Benteke. With the exception of Gabby, Sinclair is our only attacking player to have a full pre-season, so Gil, Traore and Grealish are going to take a couple more weeks to get up to fitness. Traore played 25 minutes and immediately contributed more than Gabby has in 270 minutes. Grealish has already made a case for a permanent starting place, I don't see how Sherwood can justify starting Gabby again. Save him for cup matches and make it very clear that's all he's getting unless he plays well enough in those to earn starts in the league.

It's been spoken about on twitter but if Adebayor does not want to come then we should try and push forward a loan move for Remy, with arrival of Pedro and Falcao and maybe more Chelsea would be willing to let him leave, french speaking hehe and would score.

Well if TS has read any papers this week he will be well aware off what the fans think, if not I hope Baker or Clark can have some influence in tomorrows training session. Gabby starting Saturday will be like starting with 10 men again.

Fpuppys wrote:Well if TS has read any papers this week he will be well aware off what the fans think, if not I hope Baker or Clark can have some influence in tomorrows training session. Gabby starting Saturday will be like starting with 10 men again.

I'm picturing a Road Warriors / Legion Of Doom style Doomsday Device scenario.

"Bah Gawd, they damned near broke him in haff!"

For non-wrestling fans, I apologise.

Gabby has scored 5 goals in his last 5 PL games against Sunderland. Is this the one game in 19 that he should be picked for?

I'd pick him for the derby matches coming up other then that I think he should be benched.

DomAVFC wrote:Gabby has scored 5 goals in his last 5 PL games against Sunderland. Is this the one game in 19 that he should be picked for?

Nope. Dropping him is a risk I'd be willing to take as the risk of wasting a place in the starting XI is greater in my opinion.

Consider that Wayne Rooney has put more past us than any other club he has played against but was dogshit awful against us a couple of weeks ago - in April when he scored his 13th against us, he was on a run of form scoring 6 goals in 8 appearances. Gabby is in no such form to suggest he would even get a touch of the ball if played.

Moderately interesting article in BM about Gabby, perhaps a bit of clever man management from TS going on here, a medium/long term plan to faze Gabby out without the humiliation of being dropped and sold fast............

The transition continues and my guess is were getting the squad ready for a marque signing, but not yet, next summer, to push on from finishing 9th this year then we'll see Gabby leave and our 25 goal a season superstar comes in.

It's on the Twitter feed to the right but, if you can't be arsed, here's the link....

http://t.co/mJUuxAa78C

I'd really love for a journo to interview him and ask:

"So, Gabby....the manager has stated that he values you as one of his lieutenants. Says you've a role to play with the new lads and, having been around the club for many years, he obviously feels you're an ambassador for Aston Villa and still thinks you've a lot to offer. My question is, can you spell "lieutenant"?

I just don't get this gabby knocking, OK he might not be playing well at the moment but to have a go about his spelling ability ffs give the bloke a break save your anger for the likes of them that don't want to be a villa player eg. Delph etc

It's not anger. It's taking the piss. And it's got not to do with him being in chronically shit form either....it's just that he's a bit fick.

Bless. I'd swap my brain and my bank account for his though! :)

Taking the piss is perfectly acceptable amongst a group of friends believe me I am one of the best but taking the piss out of a person who presumably you do not know is not.

Gabby is stupid. Very stupid. 

But he's always been this thick so that doesn't relate to his painfully shite form of the last half a decade.

trotters spelleeng and gramma is so god bad, I cor god tell wha the fuk he's god on about, now he sez Gabby's god fick, well fukin lardy fukin daaaa

its a got nufin to god do with his brain a it, he just a no good at footy no mua

gdale1 wrote:OK he might not be playing well at the moment bu

When was his last truly crucial performance?

Fully agree about his on the pitch performances just disagree taking the piss out of him being a bit slow in his brain power

gdale1 wrote:Fully agree about his on the pitch performances just disagree taking the piss out of him being a bit slow in his brain power

Actually, I agree.

Nah. If I feel like taking the piss out of a multi-millionaire, borderline retarded, sub-premier standard footballer who has acquired his millions from us, I will thanks. I'll also do it as often and as viciously as I feel like.

In those circumstances, a laugh at his expense is the least I deserve and in the unlikely event of someone reading the mockery to him he can console himself by getting someone to count his money for him and tell him how many Dime bars he can afford to buy.

It's about time we laid off gabby. He is a villa player who has gone through a bad patch. Let's not bring intelligence into it he has skills and gets well paid for it like plumbers sparkies ect. I am sure people slag him off for the fun of it. Constantly abuse will not help his game

ember wrote:Nah. If I feel like taking the piss out of a multi-millionaire, borderline retarded, sub-premier standard footballer who has acquired his millions from us, I will thanks. I'll also do it as often and as viciously as I feel like.In those circumstances, a laugh at his expense is the least I deserve and in the unlikely event of someone reading the mockery to him he can console himself by getting someone to count his money for him and tell him how many Dime bars he can afford to buy.emberInter-Toto Cup

People like you give us villa fans a bad name, support your team ffs

Why has nobody ever put in a bid for Gabby?
Because he is trouble and it is well known in the football world.