...Not!! Looks like he'll be back here twiddling expensive thumbs when his loan spell ends http://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2015/12/0...ans-react-on-twitter-to-gary-hoopers-perf-1/?
The guy seems to have lost it. When he first came here he looked good,and I had great hopes for him. Certainly overweight and lacking any ambition. Might as well cancel his contract and get rid.
Tbh, this is to be expected. He always took a good four weeks or so to get up to speed after pretty much every injury/loss of fitness with us and I think our fans had similar frustrations with him during those periods. SW need to stick with him for another couple of weeks and if he doesn't get injured he will then switch it on I reckon.
Didn't know he was Scottish! Shame about him. Was excited when he came here, as I was with RVW. Two expensive flops we could ill afford, sadly.
Indeed - and if we're to recoup any of the circa £5m we paid Celtic, he needs to start performing...he is in a lower league, after all! To get nothing back for him and RvW after investing around £13.5m on them would be calamitous for a club like ours
Me thinks the ship has sailed on both of these. Hooper I thought had a chance RVW I never rated. Water under the bridge.
I, wrongly it would seem, thought that he was a great signing. Probably played better for Scunthorpe than us. AN does not seem to rate him, and probably knows quite a bit about him from his Scotland days
He certainly had an occasional good game, but when I saw him pre season, he looked like he'd 'been eating all the pies!!!' I agree Cromer - we can't afford to make mistakes such as those again - that money could have bought us a pretty useful striker in the transfer window!!!!
I'm beginning to wonder how good he ever was. In Scotland he was playing teams commonly of Lg1 standard with Championship level players around him, he probably could get away with just being naturally gifted up there. What ever promise he had at Sc#nthorpe I think he lazied out of himself in the comfort of the SPL and he just can't get enough of a run in any team to get it back. Still a natural finisher, but to fat, lazy and out of match practice to get the chances! Bah!
I don't understand what happened to him. I was so excited we signed him. Like they say, he has the talent. Why did he stop putting the effort in?!
One of the tweets in the OP mentions a figure of £35 k a week? From what I can gather, Owls fans would resent paying him £3.50 a week!!
Not sure how revealing any of this is. Was SW really expecting to blow away PL Stoke at Stoke? So far, he's had 3 sub appearances and this LC start. Apparently the service to Hooper was very poor and he replaced their main striker who has been having the same problem. The striker can do little if the midfield can't get the ball to him. I'm not going to to take much from all of this really.
Tbf I don't think not playing a lot of football helped him. But I guess that's when mental toughness should come into it, if you're not playing matches then you should be doing everything possible to remain fit and sharp.
Hooper looked overweight and unfit when we last saw him for City. Seems he hasn't improved. When he's fit and working hard he is excellent, he actually had a good season last year shame about the injuries really. Wednesday fans expected PL standard player who had fallen out with the manager and wanted to prove himself. They got a player that we have clearly sent out to get some match fitness and form back.
It's not just this though, is it. He's been with us two and a half years now, and has failed to impress more than one manager in that time. Much as I wanted to sign him all that time ago, now I can't wait for his contract to run down so we can free up that salary for someone who appears to give a damn.
Nailed. Game, set and match I'd still rather get a couple of mill for him to put towards a replacement but if can't be arsed to even try - in a lower league, that's all a bit 'pie in the sky'
I was very keen for us to sign him and thought that signing a forward who had performed reasonably well in the Champion's League at the peak of his career was a real coup for us. I also felt that he would try to use us to get a move to a higher profile club with a view to him trying to gain international honours. Now he wouldn't get a game for San Marino. Real shame.
We probably would have been better off getting Hooper in to be our "Main Striker" rather than being second fiddle to RvW. Didn't Hoops get something like 6 goals in our relegation season? Not an outstanding return but it was better than all our other strikers combined that season. Being down the pecking order and then getting injured has probably affected him pretty badly. Not what you want from a professional player but it happens. I still think he is highly talented but he seems to have lost the motivation to get fit and firing again.
His main problem is that his game works best in a 2 striker approach and we don't use that and not many others do either. He worked well with Stokes at Celtic and with Elmander under CH, but he needs to adapt now or drop down a ways.
