Darron Gibson

Tramps_mate · February 15, 2015

BlockHead said:
And an expensive luxury we can't afford. Soon as we're mathematically safe, drop all the journeymen players like Gibson and Nais and blood more of the youngsters. If they show genuine promise, then cruel as it may seem, clear out the aging, slowing, injury prone journeymen and invest in our youth !!

How are either journeyman? Were Gibsons second permanent club and naisys third in 12 years!

AndyC · February 15, 2015

Tramps_mate said:
How are either journeyman? Were Gibsons second permanent club and naisys third in 12 years!

They are journeymen in the wider sense due to the fact that they would be nothing but squad players in any of the so called big clubs. I admire, if that's the right word, the solid, honest effort every game from Nais, but he is way below the class of footballer we should and aspiring to, and I'd ask you to be honest with yourself, are either of them remotely good enough to anything other than benchwarmers at best for Chelsea, City, Arsenal, Manure, the RS, or even Spurs and the answer is no.
And the same question could and maybe needs to asked of some of our other aging, slowing down, injury prone senior players. Hibbo and Ossie have both been good servants of our club, but they are both well beyond their best, as is Pienaar.

sageyefc · February 22, 2015

People always forget how good he is when hes out the team, easily the best passer at the club.

Brilliant today, pray to allah he can stay fit

AaronTheBlue · February 22, 2015

average when he came on to be honest. He didn't do anything different for me.

sageyefc · February 22, 2015

AaronTheBlue said:
average when he came on to be honest. He didn't do anything different for me.

Lol you serious?

ah11984 · February 22, 2015

A holding midfielder who can play an incisive, forward pass... refreshing.

Zatara · February 22, 2015

Looked like a tugboat and very poor defensively.

Just made a few forward passes which were to feet. Cant believe besic was taken off for him.

moyeslovechild · February 22, 2015

Speaks how much we've regressed this season if that cameo has people excited

AaronTheBlue · February 22, 2015

sageyefc said:
Lol you serious?

Yup, every pass was simple, or sideways. Game wasn't opened up because of him, and offered nothing different.

Because of how bad the game was people are looking to jump on a positive, his game was just average.

Eggs · February 22, 2015

Zatara said:
Looked like a tugboat and very poor defensively.

Just made a few forward passes which were to feet. Cant believe besic was taken off for him.

....really? Besic was busy and playing ok but the balance was so much better when MCCarthy took his usual role and Gibson the Barry position.

sageyefc · February 22, 2015

AaronTheBlue said:
Yup, every pass was simple, or sideways. Game wasn't opened up because of him, and offered nothing different.

Because of how bad the game was people are looking to jump on a positive, his game was just average.

Most of his passes were forward with pace, he directly put a few players in with balls over the top what we messed up

Eggs · February 22, 2015

AaronTheBlue said:
Yup, every pass was simple, or sideways. Game wasn't opened up because of him, and offered nothing different.

Because of how bad the game was people are looking to jump on a positive, his game was just average.

....really incisive passing I thought. We started getting behind them when Gibson came on.

mkrudden · February 22, 2015

AaronTheBlue said:
Yup, every pass was simple, or sideways. Game wasn't opened up because of him, and offered nothing different.

Because of how bad the game was people are looking to jump on a positive, his game was just average.

Disagree mate, we adapted to his qualities when he came on. Players were making runs based on his long range abilities. With McCarthy and Besic everything was in front of Leicester, contributing to that dire first half.

It must be Besic OR McCarthy from now on imo

AaronTheBlue · February 22, 2015

sageyefc said:
Most of his passes were forward with pace, he directly put a few players in with balls over the top what we messed up

Most of his passes were forwards to a play that was right infront of him, or to a player at his side. None of the passes were defence splitting or particularly useful they were just... passes.

Eggs said:
....really incisive passing I thought. We started getting behind them when Gibson came on.

Have to disagree, the game was stretched already which made it easier for people to find space, that was more to do with the pace of Lennon and atsu than it was Gibson.

Besic could have done the same, probably better with how open the game was.

Eggs · February 22, 2015

mkrudden said:
Disagree mate, we adapted to his qualities when he came on. Players were making runs based on his long range abilities. With McCarthy and Besic everything was in front of Leicester, contributing to that dire first half.

It must be Besic OR McCarthy from now on imo

....agree and probably Barry or Gibson.