It was a hard shift for Gordon Strachan’s Scotland last night. Germany are on a different level, possibly from all other teams, at the moment, but Gordon’s been through similar tests as Celtic manager. What I liked about the display was that German were afforded few genuine chances, while the goals they scored, a deflection and two which hit the post before crossing the line, gave David Marshall no chance.
Scotland failed to collect a point as they found it impossible to concentrate at the level required for the entire 90 minutes. We’ve seen Celtic teams do this successfully in the past – and not just against Barcelona. We took Milan to a 0-0 after 90 minutes in the San Siro, while teams from Manchester and Munich, and lesser locations, chased the oxygen out of Celtic players’ lungs but could not find the space required to turn Celtic over.
During the previous two seasons Celtic recorded impressive domestic defensive records, but this was not due to imperious levels of concentration, we were simply better than the opposition by a sufficient margin. When that wasn’t the case, in Europe, we often didn’t display the levels of concentration which was on show, even from Scotland last night.
Great players can score wonder goals against you at any point, but don’t dive into tackles, watch what’s going on off the ball, make the right choices on how to press the ball, and even the greats will struggle to make an opening.
The biggest challenge we have ahead of the Europa League campaign is incorporating this season’s defensive arrivals into a coherent defensive strategy. It’s a concern that Craig Gordon looks like a better goalkeeper playing for Celtic in Europe than David Marshall did playing for Scotland against Germany. Marshall is a good enough keeper, but his defence didn’t expose him too often. Craig is called upon too often in Europe.
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This is a very rare opportunity to enjoy a money-can’t-buy experience. All proceeds to raise funds for Celtic FC Foundation’s fantastic work to improve Health, promote Equality, encourage Learning and tackle Poverty. Get bidding and keep an eye on the auction here on ebay.
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The Internet and cloud computing are not real things.
Wi fi.
That’s the next big thing.
You heard it here first.
Macjay, Mr Mclay finally retired around 1978 or 79.
Good night all and sleep well.
Our southern hemisphere posters , enjoy your day.
Chris Waddle on 5 live must be the Geordie version of Derek Johnstone…
Why are people with his IQ allowed on mainstream radio?
Embarrassingly thick guy who was grossly over rated as a footballer.
Did he not play for the Falkirk Huns ffs?
NATKNOW
English please 8)
So anyways. It’s dark outside.
We better no wear the poppy on the bumblebee strip
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 8TH SEPTEMBER 2015 10:24 PM
Nat Know
“That was a worthwhile read. There is general assumption that we all share the same reality. Chances are we all have a different reality”
Typical. The clique on here get a different reality and I have to put up with this one.
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You get what you pay for mate! :-)
Consider yourself lucky – would you really want the kind of reality that some of the CQN posters seem to have? In fact, can we call it any kind of reality?! :-)
Mr P. Kojo or The Detective or Negagon1 will respond soon,
Just hold the line,
So just looking at the pre-orders of the New CQN badges and cufflinks to date.
Bundoranbhoy badge (shamrock design by his daughter mind) 32 badges
Doc badge ( no imagination-simple lift and copy) 19 badges
CRC cufflinks ( classic design updated for the current day CQNer) 23 pairs = 46 items
So still early doors, but CRC the clear leader on 46 , Bundoran Bhoy tucked in nicely at 32 and Doc sadly trailing well behind on 19 ( but he is on double figures).
The badges and cufflinks entered production today and should be available for BMCUWP hootenanny on 10/10,
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMzGTTyVWCrphf-stWbfVG4rxej3DxMs8-Jl6Mk9msBxT6p6ZaAvjVzlYvAzT81AQ?key=bXZIWFp4TnBWLTZXNV9jZ1Zmb25XdGtKRjNIVlNR#sthash.6ODckWl2.dpuf
if you want to secure your badges/cufflinks , email us on cqnbadges@gmail.com
Badges £5ea, Cufflinks £8 (pair)
HH
CRC
DALLAS DALLAS WHERE THE HECK IS DALLAS on 8TH SEPTEMBER 2015 10:37 PM
Macjay, Mr Mclay finally retired around 1978 or 79.
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He lived in Hyndland,I think,and I was able to do some work for him latish `70s.
Nice man.
Cheers.
AULDHEID on 8TH SEPTEMBER 2015 10:04 PM
weeminger on 8th September 2015 9:58 pm There also isn’t an internet based service in history that was built to seamlessly meet the known maximum demand.
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That ties in with the bullshit I was told. The ISPS might offer say 20Meg connections but bank on only half the subscribers being on line at the same time to deliver. When all subscribers are on the ISP cuts the share that 10 were getting by half to serve the 20.
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Your ISP will advertise a service offering a maximum speed of (say) 20MBPS but will never offer you a guaranteed minimum. That’s because they can’t – too many factors outwith their control.
Crc logic.
Buy wan cufflink
Get an it her wan free
NatKnow on 8th September 2015 10:35 pm –
Telt ye it wiz. So scary I’ve dismissed it.
and yet and yet, my experience tells me it might be true .
Then again I could be crazy because that is less scary.
Brogan, Bill Devlin did have thick hair and pupils our class.
Chemistry teacher, Ronnie ‘wee b@@@@@d features’ Fraser was a nasty bit of business.
Definitely off to my kip now.
C’mon the hoops
Hoi Jack
Shut it. You collected yer pension yet and ordered your badges/cufllinks yet?
Yer hat is still missing btw. Have you tried Lost and Property at Naveeds?
HH
Victor
BLANTYRETIM IS PRAYING FOR THE KNOX FAMILY on 8TH SEPTEMBER 2015 10:37 PM
NATKNOW
English please 8)
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Gibberish rather than English is the de facto CQN standard dialect! That’s my defence anyways… :-)
NatKnow on 8th September 2015 10:34 pm – See more at: http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/lessons-for-celtic-defence-great-auction-for-foundation/comment-page-6/#comments
So you are saying its complicated?
Of course it is. Ive been working with computers since1965 and seen developments from room size machines to the Smartphone that fits in my pocket and does more.
I’m amazed (and grateful ) it work s at all never mind its annoying failures.
Dallas/Macjay
Aye wee Ronnie was a piece of work. He attempted to teach me Chemistry for a time.
Macjay – you are correct, Joe and Betty McLay lived in Hyndland Avenue.
AULDHEID on 8TH SEPTEMBER 2015 10:41 PM
NatKnow on 8th September 2015 10:35 pm –
Telt ye it wiz. So scary I’ve dismissed it.
and yet and yet, my experience tells me it might be true .
Then again I could be crazy because that is less scary.
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Any philosophy undergraduate will tell you that experience is an unreliable method of acquiring knowledge and determining truth. Or maybe it’s Monty Python that suggested that. Any road up – don’t believe everything you see/hear. :-)
AULDHEID on 8TH SEPTEMBER 2015 10:48 PM
NatKnow on 8th September 2015 10:34 pm –
So you are saying its complicated?
Of course it is. Ive been working with computers since1965 and seen developments from room size machines to the Smartphone that fits in my pocket and does more.
I’m amazed (and grateful ) it work s at all never mind its annoying failures.
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Well, like many things in life, there are myriad reasons why a streamed service might not be delivered in an optimal fashion. Not all of it within the control of the product provider/seller. To be fair, the same can be said of satellite TV. Bad weather can affect the service I get from Sky.
BROGAN ROGAN TREVINO AND HOGAN SUPPORTS OSCAR KNOX, MACKENZIE FURNISS AND ANYONE ELSE WHO FIGHTS NEUROBLASTOMA on 8TH SEPTEMBER 2015 10:49 PM
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Hard to believe,I know,but i am still in touch with many of my schoomates.
More so than any other group e.g. fellow Uni students.
There was recently a well attended school reunion in Sydney.
Give me a child at the age of seven……………………………
Natknow
SFTB
I have a load of stuff on personal growth from the John Powell SJ school of thought that helps us create our realities.
I’ve just realised that I think I can make it available if anyone is interested but I’m not going to bore folks with it.
This is an example of a Powerpoint slide on the benefits of being a Goodfinder and I’m posting the link as much to test it as get comments but on reading it, it might answer what is intriguing Neganon. (if it opens)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B62m3ggkEX2ReEIxM28zWjNRY2s/view?usp=sharing
Mr Pastry
See when you come on here spouting your pish, maybes if you spouted the truth from time to time, folks on here would be more inclined to respond without ridicule.
Andy Murray’s tennis prowess is due to the coaching he received in Spain, and Not the UK.
And what about the question I keep asking you without an answer……
Why should disaffected labour voters, vote labour, when all they offer is the same old tory pish that has been on offer for the past decade or so ?
Auldheid,
Thanks I w ill read through that later.
AULDHEID on 8TH SEPTEMBER 2015 11:05 PM
Natknow
SFTB
I have a load of stuff on personal growth from the John Powell SJ school of thought that helps us create our realities.
I’ve just realised that I think I can make it available if anyone is interested but I’m not going to bore folks with it.
This is an example of a Powerpoint slide on the benefits of being a Goodfinder and I’m posting the link as much to test it as get comments but on reading it, it might answer what is intriguing Neganon. (if it opens)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B62m3ggkEX2ReEIxM28zWjNRY2s/view?usp=sharing
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Cheers my friend – I’ll check that out when I’m less tired. Ready for bawbaws. Early starts for me since I bought a wee pup a couple of weeks ago.
I see some pages with imbedded images are not viewable. One is from Schindlers List. What a movie and what an example of great good amongst evil but there is enough on view to get the gist.
Ronnie ‘wee b@@@@@d features’ Fraser did he no have a yellow Truimph spitfire. I he used to park in the staff car park then walk round it 3 times to check it was still all there.He was an ok Chemistry teacher.
I have never had any problems with buffering or anything on Celtic TV
NatKnow on 8th September 2015 10:51 pm
AULDHEID on 8TH SEPTEMBER 2015 10:41 PM
NatKnow on 8th September 2015 10:35 pm –
Telt ye it wiz. So scary I’ve dismissed it.
and yet and yet, my experience tells me it might be true .
Then again I could be crazy because that is less scary.
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Any philosophy undergraduate will tell you that experience is an unreliable method of acquiring knowledge and determining truth. Or maybe it’s Monty Python that suggested that. Any road up – don’t believe everything you see/hear. :-)
– See more at: http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/lessons-for-celtic-defence-great-auction-for-foundation/comment-page-7/#comment-2673877
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I would say that any unexamined experience is an unreliable method….. The Black Knight :)
TONYG on 8th September 2015 11:12 pm
Maybe that`s because one of his predecessors a guy called Thompson, had sugar put in his petrol tank.
Before your time.:-)
Auldheid
Any philosophy undergraduate will tell you that experience is an unreliable method of acquiring knowledge and determining truth.
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Try telling that to Pavlov`s dogs.
Affoot.
Ahahaha
Ronny ‘wee b****** features’ Fraser!
That’s got to be one of the best derogatory names for a teacher I’ve heard.
We had ‘Chairlie Werewolf’
Easily amused as my maw used to say.
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 8TH SEPTEMBER 2015 11:15 PM
TONYG on 8th September 2015 11:12 pm
Maybe that`s because one of his predecessors a guy called Thompson, had sugar put in his petrol tank.
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What year was Thompson there and was he Chemistry?
Hello again all you young rebels.
Philboy/Olivia.
Absolutely fabulous news, thats the kind of posts everyone
loves to read.
After all the chat during the week about the terrible goings
on re the Syria situation the Victoria premier announced
plans to resettle hundreds of these poor people down
beside us on the Mornington peninsula, i think we will need
a bigger CSC. after our clubs bhoys have given them a great
Celtic welcome to Oz.
H.H Mick
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 8TH SEPTEMBER 2015 11:18 PM
Auldheid
Any philosophy undergraduate will tell you that experience is an unreliable method of acquiring knowledge and determining truth.
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Try telling that to Pavlov`s dogs.
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Case in point. Dog hears a bell and starts salivating thinking it’s dinner time. Reality is there’s a mad scientist using it for experimental purposes!
P.S. I use the word “thinking” very loosely here – we all know dogs can’t think… :-)
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 8TH SEPTEMBER 2015
Tell me it wasnt Jessie the Maths teacher who used to get ripped ever time he took a class,he eventually had a breakdown.
NatKnow on 8th September 2015 11:28 pm
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 8TH SEPTEMBER 2015 11:18 PM
– See more at: http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/lessons-for-celtic-defence-great-auction-for-foundation/comment-page-7/#comment-2673880
But had they been able to as humans are then the experience would have been explored and the reality of being in an experiment realised.
Its not the experience that matters it is what is made of (or created from) it and we each are masters of giving meaning but not at the meaning we give. Thought you were meaning to go to bed? :)
AULDHEID on 8TH SEPTEMBER 2015 11:36 PM
NatKnow on 8th September 2015 11:28 pm
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 8TH SEPTEMBER 2015 11:18 PM
But had they been able to as humans are then the experience would have been explored and the reality of being in an experiment realised.
Its not the experience that matters it is what is made of (or created from) it and we each are masters of giving meaning but not at the meaning we give. Thought you were meaning to go to bed? :)
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Absolutely. We make meaning. This is one of the reasons why the “hard problem of consciousness” is hard. Making meaning (in the mind) is something that is layered on top of the “moving parts” (in the brain) underneath – although that kind of supervenience something abstract on the physical surely required (since minds do not float free of bodies…or do they?). Nobody describes the film they saw on TV in terms of which electrons that fire across the screen. Similarly, talking about neurones or C-fibres firing does not lead us to an understanding of the mind. It’s the wrong kind of language – it’s at too low a level.
BTW – who says I’m not in bed? :-)