Wes Hoolahan (M Cambridge Utd b.1982)

**Crosby87** · 04/08/2015, 6:15 PM

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**BonnieShels** · 05/08/2015, 9:41 AM

Originally Posted by SkStu

So, is Norwich the official foot.ie irish forum EPL team of the season? Or is it still Stoke? Especially if Moseley Shoals breaks through...

Who are our Championship teams of interest?

I thought we had nailed our colours to the Go Ahead Eagles mast?

**tetsujin1979** · 05/08/2015, 9:44 AM

Originally Posted by BonnieShels

I thought we had nailed our colours to the Go Ahead Eagles mast?

wrong forum

**TheOneWhoKnocks** · 15/08/2015, 2:49 PM

GOAL! SUNDERLAND 0-2 NORWICH (Whittaker 37)

It gets better for Norwich! Alex Neil is yet to lose an away game, and it's looking good for him again! Lovely goal, Whittaker racing on to a return flick from Hoolahan and firing clean and true across Pantilimon

2nd assist of the season for Hoolahan.

http://www.skysports.com/football/sl...norwich/341202

GOAL! SUNDERLAND 0-3 NORWICH (Redmond 57)

Dear, dear and thrice dear. Sunderland supporters are streaming out already as Redmond adds a third for Norwich! Another picture-book goal, Redmond playing a give-and-go with Hoolahan and sliding a finish inside the near post. Sunderland are statues, though, and again Cattermole gives it away in the passage of play leading up to it...

3rd assist of the season for Hoolahan. Thank god Dick Advocaat isn't managing him..

**gastric** · 15/08/2015, 9:52 PM

Hoolahan has been brilliant this season so far. He is running the show and he is sheer quality. Good to see our Nathan Redmond score too TOWK!

**Closed Account** · 16/08/2015, 3:21 AM

Originally Posted by gastric

Hoolahan has been brilliant this season so far. He is running the show and he is sheer quality. Good to see our Nathan Redmond score too TOWK!

Wor our lad Nathan lad

**DeLorean** · 17/08/2015, 9:33 AM

Hoolahan was the BBC man of the match

Originally Posted by BBC Sport

Wes Hoolahan provided the killer pass for two of Norwich's goals and was composed in possession throughout

**tetsujin1979** · 30/08/2015, 1:19 PM

Got nervous when I saw he'd been substituted early in the game against Southampton today, but it was only because Whitaker had been sent off and Wes was sacrificed to bring on Wisdom.

**Closed Account** · 12/09/2015, 2:47 PM

Great assist for Wesley
https://streamable.com/r4e7
and i will add a goal to that too
https://streamable.com/y0x3

**MeathDrog** · 12/09/2015, 3:15 PM

Add a goal to that too.

**CraftyToePoke** · 12/09/2015, 9:12 PM

Of Norwich 8 goals this season he has scored one and had four assists so far.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34160708

**Olé Olé** · 12/09/2015, 10:36 PM

That is some statistic. He's playing some cracking stuff at 33. I really hope he manages to extend his PL career as it's a cruel reflection on his career that this is his 4th season there at the age off 33.

Not making any form of comparison between the pair (Duff is incomparable), but it's just a funny little contrast to note that the Duffer had 14 seasons in the PL at the same age.

**Crosby87** · 12/09/2015, 11:16 PM

Some MLS team is going to swoop in for Wes in the twilight of his career.

**DeLorean** · 13/09/2015, 7:40 PM

Originally Posted by CraftyToePoke

Of Norwich 8 goals this season he has scored one and had four assists so far.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34160708

Just watched the highlights on MOTD there and they mentioned this too. He looked brilliant and Brady seemed very good also and unlucky not to score when he hit the post. He also made a brilliant tackle to keep it at 0-0. Hoolahan could have had another assist but Jerome hit the side netting. The Irish commentator on MOTD did the match and singled out Hoolahan in his interview with Alex Neil who was full of praise. Shearer and Ian Wright analysed his performance afterwards so well worth a watch for anybody who recorded it.

**Stuttgart88** · 13/09/2015, 8:38 PM

Saw that. Wes and Brady were really good. Deserved the acclaim.

**DeLorean** · 13/09/2015, 9:29 PM

He's moving very well for a 33 year old. There could be a few years in him yet.

**Stuttgart88** · 13/09/2015, 9:43 PM

I'm in a running club here. My club mate is 54, resting heart rate 27 - seriously - and smashes out incredible times for any age, let alone 54. He reckons his late arrival in running means he has young legs. Another club mate, 62, says there's a theory that every runner has 7 peak years in him / her but it doesn't matter when they are. He's enjoying his purple patch having only taken it up 5 years ago. 19 mins for 5k for a 62 y/o. Wes is probably benefitting from the slower pace of lower league football and being used sporadically as he has risen up. In running terms, he still has young legs. I see a lot of Lubo Moravcik in him. He was still brilliant at 35. Also, Wes excelled from wide positions (where he started at Shels?) on Saturday, endorsing KK's view that we need to change shape with Wes starting wife and cutting in. He has the toolkit.

**Crosby87** · 13/09/2015, 11:53 PM

Stutts did you ever hear of the book Born to Run by Christopher McDougall? It's about the people who run those 100 mile races and this tribe of people in south America who have endless stamina....it was fascinating. Book did very well.

**tricky_colour** · 14/09/2015, 4:26 AM

Originally Posted by Stuttgart88

I'm in a running club here. My club mate is 54, resting heart rate 27 - seriously - and smashes out incredible times for any age, let alone 54. He reckons his late arrival in running means he has young legs. Another club mate, 62, says there's a theory that every runner has 7 peak years in him / her but it doesn't matter when they are. He's enjoying his purple patch having only taken it up 5 years ago. 19 mins for 5k for a 62 y/o. Wes is probably benefitting from the slower pace of lower league football and being used sporadically as he has risen up. In running terms, he still has young legs. I see a lot of Lubo Moravcik in him. He was still brilliant at 35. Also, Wes excelled from wide positions (where he started at Shels?) on Saturday, endorsing KK's view that we need to change shape with Wes starting wife and cutting in. He has the toolkit.

Pace is not really a big part of his game a lot of it is the mental aspects of it, being able to see a pass and make it, also mental pace,
being able to out think other players, ie I think for his goal both defenders expect him to pass and were more concerned with cutting
out his passing options, so he said, thank you very much and put it in the back of the net himself.

But I think stamina plays a part, he only tend to play about 70 mins, however maybe also his style is not suited to the
latter stages of the game when it tend to go more long ball and a taller guy tend to be preferred whether you are defending or
attacking.

**paul_oshea** · 14/09/2015, 10:19 AM

Originally Posted by Stuttgart88

I'm in a running club here. My club mate is 54, resting heart rate 27 - seriously - and smashes out incredible times for any age, let alone 54. He reckons his late arrival in running means he has young legs. Another club mate, 62, says there's a theory that every runner has 7 peak years in him / her but it doesn't matter when they are. He's enjoying his purple patch having only taken it up 5 years ago. 19 mins for 5k for a 62 y/o. Wes is probably benefitting from the slower pace of lower league football and being used sporadically as he has risen up. In running terms, he still has young legs. I see a lot of Lubo Moravcik in him. He was still brilliant at 35. Also, Wes excelled from wide positions (where he started at Shels?) on Saturday, endorsing KK's view that we need to change shape with Wes starting wife and cutting in. He has the toolkit.

The best ive ever done is about 20:.. That is serious going. Granted I am not fit and in no way comparable but still!