Gibson set for Ireland start

Met him last summer. Seemed a wanker

I donÂ’t get the McCarthy blisters.

Harold, glad your feet are in good shape.

Chris, any elaboration on your judgement?

Christopher, did he seem like a wanker because you told him not to play for his country?

Did Gibson enjoy sitting out all last season? I know itÂ’s a big if, but when fit Gibson is still our most creative, dangerous and forward-thinking midfielder we have, Barkley included! You only have to listen to Roberto when he speaks about Gibson to realise how highly he rates him.

For what its worth, I think GibsonÂ’s an excellent passer of the ball... and if he can stay fit, he will add quality options for Martinez.

He will be training with the other squad members and getting some valuable playing time. Simple as.

How exactly was Gibson over-played? He was in International exile for god knows how long.

For a team like Everton, who can’t afford injuries to their international stars with few in reserve to replace them, international matches should be a nervy time for Everton supporters not knowing who will be fit for their next league match; which is against WBA. And I suspect they will have few if any players away on international duty, when Everton will have had 8.

Distin was a class act. Distinguished, a real presence about him. Could see why heÂ’d be such a valuable asset.

Coleman was polte, full of life and a real sparkle in his eye. You could tell he was excited for the future and rightfully so.

Gibson seemed ill at ease with the fans. He was very cold. Barely wold take a pic. Often times throughout the night, as the beers were going down a little too easily, IÂ’d make eye contact with him across the room (IÂ’m a tall guy) and he would give me this screwed-face look. This happened a few times and his energy was just not right throughout the event... Granted I had tied one on as they say. The other two were thrilled to be there but Gibson just would give a half-hearted smile and clearly seemed none too interested... Obviously a very small sampling of his personality so I may be off, but usually interactions with the fans tell somewhat of a complete story.... Take from it what you will but I no longer give a shit about him unless heÂ’s wearing our jersey.

Everton play their next premier league against WBA, who may have just 1 player away on international duty, Everton will have had 9. So they can prepare to play Everton for 2 weeks with most of their squad. At Finch Farm, Everton will have about 3 players from their previous match available for training.

If he breaks down for Ireland, then it will hardly be a shock and will just effectively be bringing forward the point when he would eventually be breaking down again for us.

As with Alcaraz and Kone, we could do with knowing if he’s ever going to be a player rather than a permanent sick note and this is as good a way to start finding out as any.

So I was surprised to learn that Martinez allowed Gibson to join the Irish squad, even though he is not match fit after a long lay off; which proves that Martin O’Neil is happy to take risks with Gibson’s fitness.

Martin O’Neil should know better as a former premier league manager not to rush players back so quickly after a serious injury. Gibson should have remained on Merseyside to build up his fitness; and played for 20 minutes here and there in league matches to slowly recover match fitness.

I lived through the times when football was marginalised in Ireland and up to the early 70s there was a general ban from Gaelic sports for lads that were ’caught’ playing the foreign game. Seems nuts cos it was. But you must understand that for Irish people and I’m sure a lot of other countries, the National team is one of the biggest deals for fans. Our national league is not full of stars and so when the lads who do make it with English clubs appear proud to pull on the Green jersey, be they born in Dublin or London, it still is a source of pride to people who remember football as a marginalised sport.

I have supported Everton since a boy and attend as many matches as I can but I try to hang onto a little of the dreams we all had as kids. Jeez it could be anyone but playing for your country should mean something. I’d be gutted with any player getting injured but these things can happen anywhere, anytime. Remember Dave Beasant and the jar of Mayo?

Anyway, just wanted to say that internationals even stupid friendlies are still necessary if we are to have a national team and a game that draws in more than just the glory hunters.

Everton play WBA in their next league match, who have maybe 1 player on international duty, when Everton will have had 9. And while Everton will have 3 players from the last game to prepare for the next match, WBA will have a whole squad.

At a time when Everton are desperate for 3 points with a very suspect defence; that is getting worse by the game. So not a good time for Everton FC with so many players away on international duty.

.....said Yoda

Shit. Sounds like a cut scene from ’Cruising’...minus the leather chaps and biker caps. No wonder he felt slightly uncomfortable. You don’t have a look of early eighties Pacino about you by any chance?

Hopefully this friendly works well for all concerned and sets him up to get involved in some up-and-coming matches. When fit, I feel he would offer more than Barry – but there’s a constant worry about how long he stays fit for!

You should be on the stage, hilarious!

The loss of Darron Gibson for most of last season helped to cost Everton 4th place in the Premier League, so the Irish tonight won’t be doing Everton any favours by playing him again, not match fit.

The only way you can get match fit is by playing matches. These friendly matches are frustrating because our players run the risk of injury.... All our players. This has nothing to do with Darron playing for Ireland. He has played a bit pre-season and made the bench a couple of times, it’s not like he’s just come off the treatment table.

He has been in full training for weeks now so he is classed as being fully fit.

So we have a player, who is classed as being fully fit, going to play an international game, with other fully fit players.

What difference would it make if it be an international game or a premiership game? If he is going to break down again, far better it being in an international and that manager has to use up a sub early on then playing against West Brom and coming off after 10 minutes.

He is a professional footballer who plays football, that’s his job so he has to do it some time, an international friendly is as good a time as ever.

This wouldn’t be a thread if he had been injured last season in a league game.

Chris 22, I would screw my face up too if I was constantly being given the eyes by a tall stranger, this isn’t a Mills & Boon book type of scenario.

I donÂ’t think Gibson is better than any of Evertons other midfielders and I would rather have any of the others to be honest.

Why should Ireland have to make a public apology? They didn’t injure him on purpose. If they do, we should get Barry to apologise for taking Ross out for a couple of months. It’s football! — people get injured. It just so happened to be while playing for Ireland, it’s not Ireland’s fault. Again he’s obviously going with RM’s blessing.

Good luck to him, hope he comes back healthy and raring to go for us!

As I said, good luck with Ireland and hope you feel on top of the world after the game.

I’m not sure really where Gibson would fit in with the amount of midfield options we now have.

Martinez would not play him ahead of McCarthy, Barry, Barkley (when fit) he has just signed Besic so you’d think he’d be ahead of Gibson too.
And then there was the pursuit of Cleverley.

I understand people who say Gibson was a big player when he first came here but that was a good two years ago now, the playing staff, the ambitions and the manager have all changed since Gibson was last a influential player for Everton.

Gibson came in January 2012 ans at that time he was just what we needed.
I actually thought we were getting a mire attacking goalscoring midfielder though who had a decent shot on him, and he scored a winning goal at home to City two games in, it’s fair to say it was the kind of goal Gibson scored a few times at United, I was expecting more but his style really changed after that, becoming a defensive holding midfielder.

I wonder would or could Martinez ever re-create the old Darron Gibson that we first signed?

Perhaps then we would definitely have a different kind of option.

I just cannot see the point in having yet ANOTHER holding midfielder.

I don’t think they treated that injury properly leading to his cruciate ligament being ruptured due to the problems with those quadriceps connecting to his femur via a tendon. The result was weakened ligament which essentially attaches the top half of the leg to the bottom half.

In short – this could have been avoided.

But thatÂ’s where he has basically been playing ever since the first few months of joining us.

Gibson was probably playing on memory in his first few Everton matches, hence the late run and shot for the winner against Man City on that cold January night, in front of just over 29,000 (times were bad watching the Blues then eh?)

Yes I have heard he likes a pint, and can come across as a bit of an arsehead but hey arenÂ’t loads of footballers??

I personally font think he will ever be the player he was in his first 12 months, right throughout the year of 2012 he was consistently good for us.

I just feel too many injuries, too long on the sidelines and a change in the landscape in terms of central midfield competition more than likely means this will be his last season at Everton.

If he gets fit, big big IF then he will a good job for a mid to bottom side like a Stoke or West Brom etc.

Its not easy getting back to where you used to be and will take serious commitment and fortune with injury for Gibson to stake a claim for a regular starting place again at Everton.

It’ll be great to have him back playing for EFC. We look a far more dangerous team with him in the side.

From reports on the game, it looks like MON was trying to give some fringe players (esp those not getting regular game time a run). No Coleman or McCarthy and McGeady came on as a sub later on. Here is the summary on DG -

"Darron Gibson looked like he might still have a way to go before he’s completely ready for a central role in a qualifying game. The Everton midfielder’s distribution here, albeit under almost no pressure, was good but he looked off the pace of things and was booked shortly before departing for a late challenge that, one hopes, owed a good deal to tiredness."

So, looks like he definitely needed the run, didn’t get injured and probably won’t start in the Georgia game. So, all round that is a good result for EFC.

Err....thanks?

Accused of being lonely by the guy who takes extreme offence at an Everton player refusing to exchange erotically charged glances with a total fucking stranger across the room?

Also, there was no joke intended and no effort expended on my part. I merely repeated verbatim the nauseating drivel you yourself posted in a style reminiscent of a dime store ’romance’ novel of the sort normally read by sexually deprived dinner ladies and spinsters with sixteen cats.

Finally, for your information (even though it’s got less to do with anything than Darron Gibson giving dirty looks to some lanky fucker who’s sunk a few too many) that’s exactly how I make money. You should give it a try yourself. You certainly demonstrated a real flair for trotting out tightly scripted. overly romanticised, aimed squarely at the teen girl demographic, Twilightesque shite. Shame you chose to do it on a website devoted to football rather than ’dreamboats’ mind.
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[Int] A sweaty nightclub full of swaying, shirtless beefcakes, stripped to their waists...waxed, clean, shiny chests glistening under scarlet strobe lights... bare, except for the secret tattoo all teen boy werewolves are required to wear under that little snail trail of hair leading from their belly button to their ’Bela Lugosi’.

It’s here we get out first glimpse of Darron Gibson (played by Robert Pattison) as he stands silently at the bar, minding his own fucking business and bothering no one at all.

Int: Extreme close up on Chris Kelly (played by the over-grown, gormless looking goon from the original The Hills Have Eyes). Wild eyed, clearly intoxicated and scanning the room in a ruthless, robotic manner, reminiscent of a tanked up T800.

Chris Kelly (V.O) SMALL SEDUCTIVE TONED, KIND OF LIKE IF MASTER (THE SQUAWKY VOICED SHORT-ARSE HALF OF MASTERBLASTER FROM MAD MAX: BEYOND THUNDERDOME) HAD THE RAGING HORN:

"Gibson seemed ill at ease with the fans. He was very cold. Barely would take a pic. Often times throughout the night, as the beers were going down a little too easily, I’d make eye contact with him across the room. Gibson seemed ill at ease with the fans. He was very cold. Barely wold take a pic. Often times throughout the night, as the beers were going down a little too easily, I’d make eye contact with him across the room (I’m a tall guy) and he would give me this screwed-face look. This happened a few times and his energy was just not right"
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See, doesn’t need my help to be ridiculously hilarious.

The Charge Of The Light Brigade in TW post form.

Sounds like Hicks & Little (IÂ’ll let you figure it out who is who).

I'm hoping to get to watch some of the game. Coleman is a definite starter and McCarthy should start in midfield. James McClean, a Martin O'Neill favourite is out injured so it may also mean a start for McGeady on the left.