Darron Gibson

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As someone who admittedly doesn't drink themself I just don't get how someone blessed with enough ability to make it to the premier league would rather get lashed on a regular basis than train and give their best for what is no more than a 20 year working life.

I love football but unfortunately was fairly useless at the poor standard I played at. And it frustrates me seeing wasters like this playing for my club.
 

It would be a good move for all concerned, he might get a game and playing regularly might help him become sober. It would take a dead weight of our books and free up a wage. Nausea next, hopefully. Cleverly etc.
 
PhilM said:
There was rumours for along time that he liked a tipple or ten and the circumstances behind his drink driving charge only added to that.

However, what was more telling for me was that on his previous social media accounts he was regularly pictured with a drink in hand or close.

Now I'm not advocating that a player shouldn't be allowed to have an occasional ale, but his flaunting of it suggested that it was more than a few.

I'd hoped that Martinez would have got him inline although it failed to materialise, yet for a trained physio our overall fitness was awful anyway.

He chose to drink and piss it all away instead of concentrating on getting himself fit so in the end I have very little sympathy for him.

It's just however a shame that we couldn't utilise a player who I believed had the ability to contribute; Oh @AndyC another memory for you...

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Nice few seconds mate, but we can't have him on the books just to play against City.
 
ToffeeTim said:
As someone who admittedly doesn't drink themself I just don't get how someone blessed with enough ability to make it to the premier league would rather get lashed on a regular basis than train and give their best for what is no more than a 20 year working life.

I love football but unfortunately was fairly useless at the poor standard I played at. And it frustrates me seeing wasters like this playing for my club.
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I'm not excusing Gibson, far from it, however alcohol like any drug is addictive and some people are more inclined to be unable to fight urges.

More likely than not he's grown up in and around a culture where it's acceptable or encouraged so for him it's possibly normal to have a drink.

Times off with injuries will almost certainly exacerbate that, although people would justly say that the ale probably didn't help - becoming cyclical.

You'd hope he would have the spine, desire and the support (notably from the club) to not want to drink but some people simply fall into the pit.

Unfortunately for us not so; in the end he's earnt a lot of money from playing very little football and personally not helping maintain his fitness.

So it's hard to feel sorry for him as hopefully if I was paid £10k per week or even more I could not drink for a few bloody years.
 
PhilM said:
I'm not excusing Gibson, far from it, however alcohol like any drug is addictive and some people are more inclined to be unable to fight urges.

More likely than not he's grown up in and around a culture where it's acceptable or encouraged so for him it's possibly normal to have a drink.

Times off with injuries will almost certainly exacerbate that, although people would justly say that the ale probably didn't help - becoming cyclical.

You'd hope he would have the spine, desire and the support (notably from the club) to not want to drink but some people simply fall into the pit.

Unfortunately for us not so; in the end he's earnt a lot of money from playing very little football and personally not helping maintain his fitness.

So it's hard to feel sorry for him as hopefully if I was paid £10k per week or even more I could not drink for a few bloody years.
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Yea that's why I was saying that I wasn't a drinker myself. I know it's something which many are unfortunate to be gripped by. Just thankful I never have been.

Best thing for the lad is to move, probably drop a division, enjoy his football and hopefully get support for his drink problem.
 

In all walks of life there are some people who just don't have the mentality to really apply themselves and achieve what they possibly can do, least not until it's too late. Gibson is one of those people, to him his social life is more important than making a success out of his career. It's his life so he can live with the outcomes of his choices but go do it somewhere else because he's wasting the club's time and money and we shouldn't want any player like that.
 
PaulieMc said:
In all walks of life there are some people who just don't have the mentality to really apply themselves and achieve what they possibly can do, least not until it's too late. Gibson is one of those people, to him his social life is more important than making a success out of his career. It's his life so he can live with the outcomes of his choices but go do it somewhere else because he's wasting the club's time and money and we shouldn't want any player like that.
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At one point there was a chance he could have been a really good player,I know he had a lack of pace but he could pass a ball.
 

ijjysmith said:
Does anyone actually know Gibson personally or we all guessing?
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I don't know him at all other than I saw him in Belfast one time. But I work with people from Derry who know of him and what I've heard is that he is still a pretty frequent drinker but less so than his younger days at United. Seamo is supposedly his best mate at the club so it's unfortunate his influence doesn't seem to have rubbed off.
 

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