Neil Lennon suggested Gary Hooper, unquestionably his favourite son, was Celtic’s best striker since Henrik Larsson. It’s an interesting question.
The list is long: Chris Sutton, John Hartson, Henri Camara, Craig Bellamy, Dion Dublin, Scott McDonald, Marc-Antoine Fortune, Chris Killen, Maciej Zurawski, Kenny Miller, Derek Riordan, Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink, Georgios Samaras, Robbie Keane, Diomansy Kamara, Olivier Kapo, Anthony Stokes, Pawel Brozek, Moh Bangura, Daryl Murphy, Miku and Lassad.
Apologies if I’ve overlooked someone. That’s 22 strikers in nine years (it’s a bit soon to consider Amido Balde), some of whom were loans, but the list doesn’t include the many Celtic youth players who got their shot at first team football, or those, like Tony Watt, who were signed for low fees from lower league Scottish clubs.
Chris Sutton and John Hartson were already at the club when Henrik left, but it quickly became evident they were past their best. Robbie Keane and Craig Bellamy were quality but only played a dozen or so games, so can’t really be considered as competition to Hooper.
Maciej Zurawski arrived a year after Larsson left and had a phenomenal first season at the club. He made his debut after the 5-0 reversal to Artmedia but inspired Celtic to a 4-0 win six days later. Maciej was on fire when he joined and only failed to score in five league games before the league win in April but he never found anything close to that consistency again. Record: 22 goals in 55 games.
Scott McDonald’s YouTube clip of goals in the Champions League and against Rangers will have featured heavily in the portfolio as his agent looked for a new club this year. His goals got us into the Champions League, beat European champions, Milan, and regularly put our (then) nearest rivals to the sword. Record: 51 goals in 88 games.
Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink arrived in summer 2006 and immediately outshone Zurawski. His debut as a substitute against Hibs transformed Celtic and won the game. His signing was pivotal in Celtic winning the title in 2007. Record: 34 goals in 78 games.
Georgios Samaras arrived 18 months after Vennegoor of Hesselink and alongside Barry Robson pushed Celtic over the line for three in a row. 2008 was a fabulous year for Georgios but although he’s still a forward, he’s not really been a striker since. Record: 41 goals in 138 games.
With 63 goals, 95 games, Gary Hooper’s scoring record is better than anyone else’s, but the challenge to be best since Larsson was simple, just outperform Scott McDonald. With all those strikers as competition, that’s not as high as the bar could be.
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canamalar1
Not now as he is fit as anything. Mentally aye, I’m lucky he is not influenced a lot by a lot of things, I am over the Moon that he is not influenced like he possibly could be. The ole Bible says Families will be split near the olde end.
He is already an incredible counterstrike player considering the rig he is playing on and the amount of Time he has been playing it. I’m challenging his mind as much as possible but, I’m too old noo.
I hope you are well and going to the next BOBBY doo.
Petec
“I think it’s better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier. Life should be malleable and progressive, working from idea to idea permits that. Beliefs anchor you to certain points and limit growth. New ideas can’t generate. Life becomes stagnant.”
“-Ism’s in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an -ism, he should believe in himself. I quote John Lennon, “I don’t believe in Beatles, I just believe in me.” Good point there. After all, he was the walrus. I could be the walrus. I’d still have to bum rides off people.”
A bit of jeff…
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OFgHy-ia8RM
thebhoywithmcgraininhisside
I have never doubted the 10 Commandments, they are Moral guidelines, Jesus brought in a subsequent one that when it is adhered to fully, it will not FAIL.
I believe a very high % of Celtic Fans believe in the above, I also hope that the Secret Orders that Run Everything are Disbanded, Phats and Small Chance of that.
What a Story that is transpiring.
Petec
The 10 Commandments is the single greatest piece of social engineering to date. The first 3 ensure a homogenous society and the next 7 instruct that society how to live. I agree with the 7 life lessons but then again my neighbour’s got a crackin lookin wife…
Paul67,
Three goal scoring gernuises playing togetger, but still breaking records ….
And still playing with total confidence….that’s what Henke brought to the table. But in his first year, the doom sayers and meeja wanted him gone. Next year, just the meeja wanted him gone :))
For recent examples, see Sammy….?…..
I agree with 7 of the commandments, but am struggling to keep with the 8th, and No 9 is a bit uncomfortable since the neighbour found out I’ve been shagging his burd.
Apols for that fascisious nonsense :((
thebhoywithmcgraininhisside
03:38 on 29 July, 2013
Petec
The 10 Commandments is the single greatest piece of social engineering to date. The first 3 ensure a homogenous society and the next 7 instruct that society how to live. I agree with the 7 life lessons but then again my neighbour’s got a crackin lookin wife…
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Wow, Social Engineering is a topic that really intrigues me. I am guessing you would promote the Georgia Guidestones?
Or are you just encouraging me to get information out? :D
thebhoywithmcgraininhisside
Social engineering’s a contemporary nonsense.
When you take a step back….it all appears different……
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZarW-7ivZo&list=PL37275B4B0B62F6B6
“I am strongly of the opinion that, after the age of twenty-one, a man ought not to be out of bed and awake at four in the morning. The hour breeds thought. At twenty-one, life being all future, it may be examined with impunity. But, at thirty, having become an uncomfortable mixture of future and past, it is a thing to be looked at only when the sun is high and the world full of warmth and optimism.”
thebhoywithmcgraininhisside
03:54 on 29 July, 2013
“I am strongly of the opinion that, after the age of twenty-one, a man ought not to be out of bed and awake at four in the morning. The hour breeds thought. At twenty-one, life being all future, it may be examined with impunity. But, at thirty, having become an uncomfortable mixture of future and past, it is a thing to be looked at only when the sun is high and the world full of warmth and optimism.”
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;))
I’m loving it, I have precisely 4 minutes left, is that from the Book of McG?
Petec
It’s pg wodehouse.
RC Christian has a lot to answer for. Maintaining humanity under 500,000,000 may prove tricky though… At least for the 6.6 billion unfortunates…
And 4am has come and gone. But then again so has 30…
Fortunes Favour Mibbes,
If you are going Wednesday give us a wee shout, I’m off work this week and the Wee Man definitely needs to meet the guy I spent 12 hours drinking with. :D we are in 407.
The Monumental Sound of Silence
Am hearing soundwaves rozzering around my napper.
You think Petec talks mad, you have NO idea how closer to the truth he is than you are.
Put you’re self in that position. His good nature wins.
He’s feckin right. Not always, …but generally, aye.
These words will see an increase in acrimony.
thebhoywithmcgraininhisside
Alledgedly Rosicrucian, makes sense, the Rose and the Cross and all that palaver.
Pedro @ 04:13
Been an eventful weekend and bad news anniversaries.
I’ll not be going to watch Celtic on Wednesday.
But, I’ll be having a tea with the kindest most amazin lassie I’ve ever known while she wears her Seville T-shirt …. its feckin brilliant..amazing….wow !! God does indeed work in mysterious MYSTERIOUS ways !! :))))))))))))
Fortunes Favour Mibbes
Yer {Wan} of the nicest dudes ever…..
Now lets look beyond Wan to WIFI….
An artists concept of Wifi
These are real unseen zones.
Gordybhoy
I am in the Santa Barbara so I will give the wild geese a go for the game
Over here with the family for a week, so far so good but played golf today
And I am burnt to a crisp……….
Hail hail
Brnobhoy
Convenience is King.
Asda and Morrissons flood their stores now with nothing but their own food. Talk about taking total control.
At Night you hear, Bazookas Roar
Obsessed about it – moonhowler MIX
Where is Monsanto?
Frances Fights Demons.
It’s a feckin nightmare.
She’s v strong and smart.
They don;t like it,
Which means its goin to get uglier, and they’ll win.
Yep.
So when yer aware of the ole establishment, don’t it just make you admire them what faint as the sight of the ole union flag.
Country of muppets??
Chine are actually better.
Gluten?
I cut down the Gluten my quite high Blood pressure went down. Try finding Gluten free products in any Mo or AS homemade products. As KK says. Good Luck.
It’s cracking irony listening to certain posters here…..
Thom the Tim,
Aye.
Do you have a point of view on tragedy??
Wide open goal for you there.
If you’re grandkids went to a Celtic Game and got kettled?……
Things is, that WILL actually happen?
So the rest of us will be fighing for them while you sit there oblvious??
Aye, good on ye.
Thankfully, they’ll learn the lesson you have failed to learn in your 60 proud years of supporting a football club without having any flamin clue about what it means.
04:35 Feck, that’s pure mental.
But good sober post at 04:43
Depressing but true.
Pedro:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFLQS12z8K4
Bad shit this weekend.
Summit rotten is a foot amigo, and has been building up all week,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFLQS12z8K4
Fortunes Favour Mibbes,
I mean’t to email this, I guess it was mean’t to get posted here. ;)
Anyway these are inspirational audios for when you are at the bottom, rock bottom. I’m sure she will find WAN ;) there and maybe another after that WAN.
She is going to Have to believe, I think she has nae where else to go really but it is crucial she Believes – that is when the miracle starts, she will have plenty to choose from, from the list, everyone has been inspirational to me.
Firefighters for Christ
The full audio Bible is there to download from the site, I’d advise to concentrate first on the New Testament.
A favourite of my Mums.
In Through the Looking Glass, that poem “The Walrus and the Carpenter,” that’s an indictment of organized religion. The walrus, with his girth and good nature, obviously represents either Buddha or, with his tusks, the Hindu elephant god Lord Ganesha – that takes care of your eastern religions. Now the carpenter, which is an obvious reference to Jesus Christ, who was raised a carpenter’s son, he represents the western religions. Now in the poem, what do they do? What do they do? They dupe all these oysters into following them and then proceed to shuck and devour the helpless creatures en masse. Now I don’t know what that says to you, but to me it says that following these faiths based on mythological figures ensures the destruction of one’s inner being. Organized religion destroys who we are by inhibiting our actions, by inhibiting our decisions, out of fear of some intangible parent figure, who shakes a finger at us from thousands of years ago and says “Do it, do it and I’ll fucking spank you!” The existentialists can keep their Kierkegaard and their Sartre — give me Lewis Carroll any day. That guy knows what time it is!
Full moon last weekend, mental fortnight,
Bad 4 yr cycle.
Christianity is sidelined.
Horrors abound.
thebhoywithmcgraininhisside
HH.
H feckin H.
Great wisdom ! HH
The Singing Detective Demands The Resignation Of Campbell Ogilvie
01:04 on
29 July, 2013
You`re right ,of course.
I grab my news from any convenient source.
The impression which I had , came from a number of the usual suspects.
Many thanks,however for setting the record straight.
More food for thought.
Nevertheless as far as the “dirty digger ” is concerned,I continue to harbour suspicions that he is not a force for good in the communications world.
Marshall Mc Luhan “The media is the message ” ( Did he mean ” are ” ?)
Incidentally,I appreciated you,Kojo and a number of others in their thoughtful expressions recently.
I should mention that I`m not that bothered about disagreement or even vitriol.
When you swim against the tide,that`s to be expected.
Keep well.
thebhoywithmcgraininhisside
04:55
And it is funny that Organised Religion as it is marginalised like never before, the World is falling to pieces.
Quick, sign Ugandas finest players
The ole SS are working their Dark Arts all over the World.
Entropy Entropy
“The ole SS are working their Dark Arts all over the World.”
Yep.
“Religion. It’s given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.”
“The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, that is true perversion!”
thebhoywithmcgraininhisside
04:55 on
29 July, 2013
Atheism or ” every man for himself ” ?
Goes against human nature , or the group ( herd ) mentality.
Belief in a “superior ” being transcends all cultures and epochs ,from the most “primitive” to the most “sophisticated.”
It`s a natural phenomenon.
thebhoywithmcgraininhisside
05:16 on 29 July, 2013
“Religion. It’s given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.”
“The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, that is true perversion!”
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Are you sure about that?
Macjay1
The human condition is to attempt to bring order to chaos.