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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BGX
A top manager. I think something like 2 losses in 16 games v the so-called greatest ever Ferguson.
jude.
Johnny Russell got one of them,
Jmccormick…..best explanation i have heard on Ashleys involvement with the HUN…he is a gambler…low stake..high win possibility….you put it great mate…
This caught my eye, in passing.
Probably just a coincidence.
‘Giving evidence, she described being assaulted in the Grill Room at 29, a private members club at Royal Exchange Square, Glasgow, in December 2011. She said she had hosted the Cash for Kids lunch at the Hilton hotel earlier that day and afterwards had gone on to an after-party with her husband and others, including Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley and former Rangers owner Craig Whyte, who was then still with the club.’
http://www.scotsman.com/what-s-on/tv-radio/dj-suzie-mcguire-tried-to-take-own-life-over-abuse-1-3586627
Jude-PF-g64
I never bet on Celtic pre kick off, I think I will jinks them, I often do in play tho, seems Ok to me that way, weird.
I will bet on the hun all day long, they have been a very good income stream over the years, late pens, dodgy decisions from the cheats with the whistles, taking money from the corrupt bookie any which way imo is Ok.
See if I hadn’t stuck 20 quid on them tonight, THEY WOULD STILL HAVE WON, I would still have my 20 quid, but I wouldn’t have relieved the corrupt ones of 90 quid, I could have lost my 20 quid, but, that’s why it’s called gambling.
DifferentfolksCSC
HH
Put a Hampden Roar on St John’s Town tonight. Poor show ya Perth bandits!
b67
THOT HE WD TA
Glasstwo….since he went back to Chelsea ..dont think he has lost a game to Arsenal..Man C…or Man utd…best manager ive ever known…champion..ItalyEnglandSpain Portugal..unreal…
BGX
Ashley’s involvement……..no puzzle there.
Cover versions, look no further than Aretha Franklin. A lot of her stuff in the sixties were covers, e g I say a liitle prayer was originally recorded by Dionne Warwick. She even makes Elton John’s Border Song brilliant by singing it like a Gospel song.
Mourinho’s behaviour in some of El Clasicos left a bad taste in my mouth particulary the incident with the late Tito Vilanova. He talks well of us but his management style & persona leave me cold. I can see why people like him as a manager but I can’t take to him at all.
TET
Gone yesel!!!
*****Last Man Standing 2*****
Good evening fholks
The following 10 teams fell at week 3
Thommy Bhoy Tottenham
fleagle Liverpool
realnineinarow Man Utd
Jonnythetim Chelsea
Cowie Bhoy Liverpool
Bognorbhoy Tottenham
The Lurker Chelsea
B-Boy Tottenham
Bjmac Liverpool
Jamesgang Man City
This leaves 27 teams going through to week 4
St Patricks Bhoy Aberdeen
The Token Tim Swansea
deccyrollercoaster Everton
Lennybhoy Swansea
Angel Gabriel Southampton
Penfold Swansea
Smashing Milk Bottles Arsenal
Kelvin Bhoy Celtic
Jobo Baldie Aberdeen
Bobby evans Superstar celtic
Praecepta Swansea
bada bing Celtic
ticgaz Celtic
BMCUWP Swansea
Bognor hoops Aberdeen
PaddyBhoy1888 Swansea
Leftclicktic Celtic
Paolos Boots Celtic
Celtic Rose Celtic
GG Southampton
Kolncelt Aberdeen
saint stivs Swansea
Black Cat Everton
Guyfawkesahero Aberdeen
jammabhoy Southampton
Minx1888 Arsenal
Gods XI Celtic
The default team Swansea helped a few through this week, although a few did pick them without my assistance :-)
The prize money for the Last Man Standing 2 is expected to be £260, with £260 going to Wee Shay. So if you have still to pay please do so asap pretty pls.
HH
CRC
D D
Bandits that ur strongest???
TET
Ill gotten gains mate. Surely those £90 will weigh heavy on you. I’d be willing to take them from you if it helps ?
TET
You bet with your heid, like I usually do.
Tonight I bet with my heart. Lesson learned. :)
Re Chic Young’s reference to ‘his greatness’ earlier on Shortbread.
No one but no one has caused more damage to the Scottish game than David Murray.
And yet in the wake of him kick starting the destruction of one of the two biggest clubs in the country, Murray still holds a spell on some of the press.
You really wonder what the real extent of msm lies and spin amounted to when he was all powerful and had a battalion of press minions jumping to his every command.
As he pushed his banker chums to shut Celtic down, his lamb munchers were ready with the obituaries and you can bet the word ‘armageddon’ would have appeared nowhere.
*****CQN Predictor Cup*****
Hi fholks
Despite the magnificent efforts of Jobo, we are still a wee bit behind on releasing the results for match day 1 and 2.
We will hopefully have these out by Thursday/Friday latest
Thank you for your patience
HH
CRC
Dallas Dallas….just like i loved Lennon..and MON….cant take to Deilla.and although i knew he was a good manager Strachan with his trying to be funny nonsense did my head…each to their own…
Jude
Ask ma bhoy who watched the game with me. ;))
Marrakesh Express
‘Murray still holds a spell on some of the press’
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Wonder why that is ?
Clashcitybhoy
Post number 666 !
BGX
I’ll put my decision off until the SFA, SPFL and Celtic unequivocally declare on the status of Newclub.
They’ll have to eventually, and I’ll view any ‘fudge’ as a nod to the Big Lie, and act accordingly.
Hail Hail.
BGX
Im the same and mrs j is even worse!!
Marrakesh express….question mate…do you thin Dermot Desmond is a clever man?
Covers.
Dolphins is a Fred Neil choon. Tim Buckley covered it
Other goodies-
Bang Bang -Tomorrow’s Children
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BCW
That has spooked me a bit. Considering the poster, and content of the post.
BCW
Unfortunatly, Mrs TET found out that I won a few bob tonight, it will feed the dugs for a month, or I would have given it to you………aye right >}
DD
Honestly mi amigo, I want to empty the pot, I have been threatening for some time now to give it up, but as long as there is money in the pot, I will keep trying to take their cash, when it’s empty this time for sure, no more.
HH
Bgx
In many ways. What you getn at?
Beatbhoy…who are you kidding…its gotta be yourself….i saw a tweet from arch Hun..Chris grahem..union of idiots…he said that this wasnt the club that hegrew up with… You know it ..i know it..he knows it…dont expect tbe Plc or Sfa to say it….its all about the money mate….
BGX, I loathed Gordon Strachan until he was the pundit on Match of the Day 2 when it first started.
His post match analysis was excellent and he knew what he was talking about.
I agree about him being a smart arse at times and the football we played in his last two seasons was not the best but i now have a hell of a lot of time for him.
He played in a great Aberdeen team, for England’s biggest club and another big name, at the time, Leeds, in English football. The only club he talks regularly about is us.
Mourinho is in the top five of the greatest managers of all time but the way he gets his teams to play is unpleasant to watch at times. However, he has a great crop of players at Chelsea currently and if he lets them play to their strengths, they will be hard to beat and better to watch.
Marrakesh express….do you think that DD knows more about the Huns troubles than we do…givin that they are normally our only rivals in a 2 horse race ?
Dallas agree with you on mourinho
Cant function without a huge pile of money get him to swap with Sean dyche
Tito Villanova ,now there was a manager
Never blaming the refs ,the fixtures
Congestion it’s always someone else’s fault. Sam allardyce did a job on him last year and he didn’t like it
No time for him after Seville
Don’t mind losing to a better team and they were a class act but all that playacting gets on my nerves
If the linesman did his job at old Trafford he never would have won the champions league and we’d be spared this special one pish for the last decade and on that note I’ll bid you all a goodnight
Dallas
Good points. For me wgs’s main fault was his bulk buying of mediocrity. He brought in 32 players for around gross £35m ( not all for money though).
For a Hibs fan who played for some big clubs, he’s now a top voice for CFC every chance he gets.
Dallas Dallas .
Agreed…
his buying of Costa andFabrigas..
Genius..
TET
I pray at mass every week for the strength to chuck the punting. I know I am chasing the wrong god when I gamble. Then I put a small punt on when I’m skint, and win a packet. Then praise God for my win.
Dichotomy CSC
BGX
What Graham said is a long way off accepting they’re a new club.
That’s the crux of the matter for me, because it’s the truth of the matter.
Let’s see if that’s acknowledged when it comes to the crunch.
what is the stars
“20:40 on 28 October, 2014
Mrob. The dolphins by Tim Buckley, great track. Died at 27 as did his son Jeff. Bizarre”
Wrong and wrong.
But there are a number of musicians all who died in the 27th year.
Spooky csc
Well I made it back home, that really was a shitefest of a game, almost worth the wretched experience when the tribute act scored only to have it chalked off…..thanks to all for the supportive words!