Gary Hooper has scored once in his last 23 appearances for Norwich City, an ultimately meaningless goal as his team lost that day. Prior to that, he scored five in eight in games in which Norwich collected 10 points, while he opened his account for them with a brace in the League Cup against Watford. The latter stages of that 23 game desolate run has been marred by an injury he collected preseason, returning to league duty this month.
This is not the player you or I will recognise. Gary was more than capable of going through a dry patch, but he was an undisputed penalty box finisher, who seemed to perform better, the better the competition. Now he has to sit alongside Jos Hooiveld on the Norwich bench, as his in-form club, with in-form players, occupy a play-off place. Think of that for a moment, Hooper and Hooiveld, largely indistinguishable on form for Norwich.
It’s no surprise that Neil Lennon wanted him at Bolton, he knows Gary is a better player than probably anyone in Norwich realise. Norwich rejected the bid, as they were reluctant to weaken their squad, but already this season is looking unlikely to add much to the end of career Gary Hooper Highlights DVD.
Celtic are already on the case to sign John Guidetti on a permanent deal, he’s looked the part since he first touched the ball in a Celtic shirt, but by contrast, Stefan Scepovic has looked awkward. The early goals didn’t come, he looked short of a game plan and when a header missed the target on Thursday night, one guy behind me bellowed the kind of comment you hope a player looking for confidence doesn’t hear.
I don’t know any more about Stefan than you, but I absolutely know we’ve not seen the best of him, just as Norwich haven’t seen the best of Gary. This guy has the background we want in a new recruit, scoring well in the Spanish second tier and wanted by top tier club.
It’s been a while since I’ve seen a Celtic player as happy to score as Stefan was against Astra. The finish against Kilmarnock will have built on whatever confidence boost he received. The project is back on course. He needs to continue to find the net, and we need to remember how to support a player as he settles into a new life.
We’ve had a great run of momentum with the help of Magners in recent weeks. The club sponsor have offered a couple of premium match tickets, on the back of which we’ve asked for donations from £1 to Mary’s Meals.
It’s been great to see this in action. We get lots of £1 and £2 donations, but plenty of people chip in with a lot more. It’s been a great way of ensuring prizes are open to everyone.
Today we formally launch the bid to build a fourth school kitchen in Malawi for Mary’s Meals. During 2014 you funded the construction of three kitchens, which feed close to 2000 of the world’s poorest children each day. All of them live below the UN measure of absolute poverty.
Over the last 20 years the number of people living below $1.25 per day has halved. Organisations like Mary’s Meals are making enormous inroads. Those kids aren’t just getting a meal, more of them are able to attend school (up 30%) as they don’t need to work for food. This improves their academic achievements and gives them skills which will be with them throughout their lives, increasing personal, regional and national productivity.
93% of the money raised by Mary’s Meals reaches those on the ground. It costs around $12 to feed a child for an entire year. It’s almost incalculable what your money does.
Magners have kindly offered two debenture hospitality seats for The Celtic Suite, including buffet lunch, for the Inverness game on Saturday, which are available for auction here on ebay. The journey we had last year in building those three kitchens was remarkable, I know we’ll enjoy the new project.
Current bid is £1 to get in quick!
Big thanks to Magners, b.t.w. This help goes a long, long, way.
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St. Johnstone?
Never seen so many diddies in a team.
burnley78
There might be a need for a new Motherwell shortly…
UNASHAMED REPOST.
Nye Bevans’ rebel soldier
20:03 on
28 October, 2014
Good Evening Timland.
Watching the fitba?
St Johnstone…low in confidence and intimidated.
Sevco ……sh#te.
One goal will win it.
Goodnight Timland.
Is Hampden still out of commission, ? Will the Semis be played at neutral grounds.
Reaching semi of league cup being lauded on BBC as if it were reaching the CL final.
They just can’t help themselves…
Fraser wright swaps shirt wae wee kit mans anorak
How many of the St Johnston players who refused to clap the champions onto the park at Paradise played well tonight?
Ashley weaves his magic
Corkcelt- given sfa recent stances grey skull will be ” nuetral ” venue
OK, big chance for those who wanted Tommy Wright to replace Neil to come on now. You know who you are. “Great Manager”.
Has deadco gave ended?
Turned of cqn when marspapa cheered their goal..,,
BBC have a Sevco semi.
Tom McLaughlin
Och Tom you’re paranoid since you got back home!
Having watched and listened to many different performances by Hendrix I’ve came to the bizarre conclusion that not only was he the best performer and musician in modern music and is easily of the quality of the great classical musicians and composers he is also largely underestimated,it was mentioned earlier about Hendrix doing a sort of cover version of one of his own covers,that’s because he played every song in a different way each time he played,most people only know and have heard his more popular songs and their studio versions but there’s a wealth of his work that’s even more amazing than his standard versions,anyhow….
Bournesouprecipe
You might be right but given tv and their status I would have hoped our crowd would reflect that it is a huge game in our season in looking to win a treble.
They were expecting 10000 tonight. It looked more like 15000 from what I saw.
I doubt we will even get 20000 without TV but we will see.
I hope I am wrong.
St.Johnstone team bus should stop at the slaughterhouse on the way home and dispose of the lot of them.
Give a pub team with hangovers a bad name that lot. Disgusting effort from ‘professionals’.
I’ve seen boys on the Sunday morning pitches better quality than them. Uber-garbage.
They gave the Huns hope, and that in itself is a crime.
Will be up to us to destroy it.
Roddy “lack of” Foresight getting highly excited about an “old firm” semi-final. Last time I heard him so excited was when he thought the old club was going to get out of administration by the end of March 2012 and get to keep their European place.
Bournesoup
That’s more than a semi for them LoL.
St Johnstone were an utter disgrace tonight.
They deserved their win….if we meet them all we gotta do is play 3…Brown.Johansen.Mulgrew..midfieldwon…game over….calm down…
Dire game of football …MSM are desperate for a CFC Sevco game …can’t think of anything worse
Anything that gives them credibility is a bad thing IMO
burghbhoy-Wright,Davidson and MacLean
BSR
‘BBC have a Sevco semi.’
I’m surprised they’re not showing it live…
Kikinthenakas….thats nice to hear mate some cool representing by your goodself.
Shrews equalise Drogba lead………….
Jose bricking it!
Shrewsbury equalise against Chelski. Sack Mourinho.
Shrewsbury equalise Vs Chelski
St johnstone are part of the bottom league ..thistle..st johnstone…st mirren ross county….no differance between the afore mentioned hearts sevco and hibs….calm ….
Watching that was purgatory. Watching the sexual tension between Steven Thompson and that bloke with the farmers jacket is marginally more entertaining.
The odds on meeting them shorten.
OH Bugger. Mourinho gets out of jail card.
Oh dear that didnt last long
Drogba 2-1 – shitski!
Tommy wright giving the old ” Craig brown ” we done reasonably well sh–e -eh no you didn’t -disgraceful performance
13/8 chelski when the shrews equalised.kerching..
Burnley78
I would doubt very much that they exceeded their expection of 10,000 ( not from my TV anyway ) where it substantially less.
However, the LC has been a turn off for Celtic fans, ever since we made a proper stadium.
I doubt there will be a rush for tickets just because the new Glasgow side, are still in it.
Why do Celtic fans hate Mourinho….he is one of the best managers ever..
.the guys a genius….wish we had him..
Burnley78
p.s. I agree, St Johnstone were not interested.
The basic question is, is Ibrox and or Murray park worth more to MASH as an asset to sale or do they earn more from Rangers getting into the top league?
Ibrox valued at how much in the latest accounts?
Challenging Celtic would cost how much?
How much profit do you make for shareholders.