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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Hebcelt,
A simple example of how the difference can happen
Data centre has 10 servers with the latest spec and 30 servers with low spec do you think those served from the high spec servers are going to get the same quality then those served from the low spec servers ?
PHILBHOY on 8TH SEPTEMBER 2015 2:59 PM
Am delighted at your news.
That’s the best thing that’s been posted on here for many a day.
I hope you Olivia and your family have a wonderful evening – blessed release!
I know what it’s like to wait for news on something as awful as that. You’ve spread a bit of joy around the blog today!
HH
Canamalar
Auldheid is more right that wrong…
Work in industry.
If you have sky broadband it will never be better than BT broadband because sky rent from BT and give preference to their customers.
If you are fortunate to be ob Virgin fibre then hour quids in all the way back to the weakest point – probably the ISP servers handling feed and all other points down the line.
There will always be a weakest link in the chain & your device you use could be part of it also.
Anyways….,
HH
TeT,
CTV are paying some remote cheap chickens hit data centre for storage space and a number of servers, they probably rent servers for distribution and have a sliding scale of top spec to bottom spec servers obviously if your being served from the top end your going to get faster and higher quality data stream.
Canalamar
I have a tad more than a layman’s understanding.
Is the bar man paying Celtic TV to broadcast or is he streaming?
Id be surprised if he is paying a pub subscription as that service is only offered in the USA and for a reason. The network infrastructure is reliable.
http://www.celticfc.tv/pages/faqs
I did of course have a look at this page before my visit. In fact it was differences between that page and the splash pages that prompted my request to meet.
That suggests that like the pubs in Spain he is using a stream.
However if he has a private subscription with his PC linked to the TV by an HDMI and is getting a better picture quality without buffering and gets the signal delivered by the same cable/telephone company that you use and is on the same exchange so no contention issues then you do have a complaint that you are not getting what he is.
I’ve asked the techie I spoke to look into it. The bullshit remark is sure to get a response. Good tactic.
Andrew K
Will do the same again but promised Almore from this parish first dibs if anything shows. Kilmacud7s on the day before the game is normally a decent spot for acquiring briefs.
Anyway, as said will do my best. It certainly worked for me the last time lol.
Get my email from P67.
HH
Anyone have any recommendations for what channels to download for KODI?
Just thought I’d ask as all you techy guys are on just now.
I don’t take part in the technical discussions because I am not qualified to do so. If however I was I would treat fellow posters in a civil manner. I,m sure we’re educated enough to do that.
Probably only me and my new glasses.
Does this photo remind you of anyone?
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Clogher
These English commentators are ‘comedy gold’ ….they really are ….’.shoite’ doesn’t begin to describe their comments …. :)
Auldheid,
Is behaving like a manager, I’ve provided a very simple example of why my thinking is not bullshit and why people can get different signals even on the same house, it all depends on the source server you are being supplied from, and yes the final distribution server will have an influence too but in my case being in Abu Dhabi you know the local distribution exchange data centre is going to be on the top end spec side, the arrogance was a bit of an eye opener.
I have previously identified that when I put on the replay of games there is never any buffering and it’s always HD, so considering it is streaming the exact same amount of data as the live game why would there be a difference ?
Simple cheapshit servers being used during live games.
HH THE EXILED TIM on 8th September 2015 8:12 pm –
They wash their face. No more and that was true for Channel 67. I know the guy who got it going.
Going back to my point about equalisation and where Canalamar has a point on quality: if thinking changes to allow what I’m suggesting then obviously if that makes more money then some of that has to be spent on the pump at the Celtic end if that is the solution.
The cost of keeping the quality high would have to be reflected in the pricing estimate.
It would be a cost to the project offset by the earning benefit.
Of course when considering the buffering effect you have to take into consideration the Callan-Symanzik equation.
bullshitbafflesbrainsCSC
Auldheid on 8th September 2015 6:58 pm
“Who Pays? A.B. C. ”
Some good points, as usual.
I’m happy paying for a season ticket as an “A” (even though I miss games due to rescheduling). It is fairly easy for me as I can afford the ticket and a 6 mile run in the car every couple of weeks is easy. In fact I love it. How lucky am I?
Obviously others want to watch the bhoys from a distance (or even close by). They are either the “Bs” or “Cs”.
I think the real goal has got to be to get “Cs” (in reality – all of us) to pay.
This might be done via the correct adverts. What’s the point of taking money from The Sunday Mail when the “Csers” are in North America or Australia? Surely the trick is to find out where the Csers are, and sell the adverts appropriate to that market.
Imagine those adverts that surround the pitch changing depending on the IP address of the viewer. Now there is a thing!
It’s a bit like getting lifted over the turnstyle; but from afar.
Philbhoy
Great news regarding you’re daughter and for all you’re family
Auldheid
Thank you very much for your prompt reply and explosive information and to any Cqnrs who question Resolution 12, without knowing the full knowledge and ongoing work involved you are all wrong, the truth will come out.
For those on CQN having difficulty understanding the Callan-Symanzik equation , here’s a easy explanation:
http://baike.baidu.com/view/10158171.htm
Prestonpans
that’s the shortcut version
Paisley bhoy
Happens to an extent abroad…..
Not pitch side but on your main screen during games
Im sure out esteemed foreign tims will confirm or tell me I was seeing things !
Prestonpans Bhoys thanks for that dead easy to understand once you see it in writing,wish you’d posted it earlier!!
Auldheid,
Good analysis. Point of clarification: CTV commercial feed is in both USA and Canada.
I have engaged with Canamalar on this subject before. The issues he describes sound similar to those experienced by some north american CSC’s…..in the early days.
With the help of CTV tech support, these have been resolved. The issues have been local. The solutions have been local.
I agree with you that CTV personal subscriptions are under priced.
Keep fighting the logical fight….
Ronnie
Auldheid,
I’m no sure you do have much more of an understanding, you allowed them to bamboozle you with bandwidth and how it deteriorates if oversubscribed without asking why they did not have enough bandwidth to provide for all their paying subscribers or why illegal streams can provide better quality they they do.
As I said to hebcelt and ADI cheapshit servers will make a massive difference and we who suffer buffering are collateral damage who are expected to accept bullshit answers because we’re no expected to understand the black magic that is data streaming.
Standard answers are in order of appearance
1. It’s your computer
2. It’s your wifi connection speed
3. It’s your broadband speed
4. It’s your service providers fault
It’s never substandard product
Canaman-Auldheid
Thanks for the info, cleared up a few things in my head.
The way I see it re Celtic TV., no tech stuff, just simple sums.
It costs £132 a year, less than £3 a week, you really don’t get much for £3 a week, maybes if they were to pay for decent reliable servers, they could offer a better service and charge more, as I said, I would happily pay if the service was watchable, and as 99.99% of the people who pay for the service are supporters, I’m sure they would also weigh in with a bit more if the service and product was better.
HH
Philbhoy,
Just read your news.
Delighted for you all.
Clogher
Philbhoy
The best news
This England / Switzerland game is actually very good….
Now you see when I was at school, I was taught physics by a wee man called Joe McLay – sadly now deceased.
In between getting you to memorise the law of motion, or the formula for working out resistance and all that stuff, wee Joe was apt to ask you to recite The short act of faith or the short act of hope.
I knew the act of contrition but any other “acts” were all double Dutch to me.
Similarly all that talk of amps, ohms, current, energy, motion, resistance and all that bollocks was something that I was never going to understand – much to my late father’s chagrin as he was very science minded.
Anyway, this day, we are in the lab with wee Joe and he is losing it as nobody in this class is really showing the merest hint of undertanding physics let alone being able to recite his definitions and formulas and so in a fit of sheer exasperation he starts down the road of asking people to recite the odd short act of something.
Don’t ask me why because I never did understand the wee bugger.
By the time he gets to me, he has ran out of prayers to recite and knows fine well that there was not a snowball’s chance in hell that i was ever going to be able to recite one of his formulas.
So, he resorts to a question:
“McGinley! Explain the process that happens when you switch the light on in your house?”
I had no idea what he meant but vetntured ” Eh well technically you flick the switch, current runs down the wire, and lights the light” I guessed.
” Technically?” he boomed ” Technically? Is that not what happens then? What do you mean, technically?”
“Well” says I ” That might be what happens technically, I am not really sure, but what I believe happens is that i hit the switch and God makes the light come on. That is all I know for certain and it works every time so it is good enough for me! It’s a matter of faith really”
He couldn’t really disagree with that but all the same I still got the belt for knowing nothing and bringing God into the picture.
Anyway, the point of the story is that I got a C for my physics “O” grade ( something I am very proud of as every answer to every question was exactly the same as I recall or involved the same formulas being repeated ad nauseam as one of them had to be correct each time ) and so i haven’t a clue whether Auldheid or Canamalar has the most knowledge about the technical stuff and whatever they are on about is technically beyond me.
However, what I do know is that Football clubs around the world are marching ahead with digital this that and the other on every available platform, and they are doing it better than Celtic.
What I also believe is that surely in the name of Jesus and wee Joe McLay ( God rest him ) some bugger with more than a c in their physics “O” grade knows how to fix the bleeding buffering?
Is our new Bhoy playing anywhere tonite???
Weeron,
The difference between the USA and Abu Dhabi is the age of the exchange data centres, everything over here is is fibre optic. The USA is still updating their their data centres.
The mobile network here is mostly 4G so I get a faster connection here on my mobile than I do with BT at home.
I remember all the adverts a few years ago about how BT were upgrading everything to fibre optic, I listened to people telling me how their new fibre optic never seemed to make much difference, what was not shared with the public was that the fibre optic line was taken to an exchange but it was wet string between exchanges :)
Canamalar
Just putting over my take on it
If we could all have 10mb pipes ( no contention) into our house we’d be quids in :)
Anyway I dont subscribe to CTV or try to stream as my connection is copper Pish ( not plod) at the end of a two mile run from exchange.
Take care HH
This wee spat regarding TV is illuminating I think. Not for the debate itself but because it betrays some I,lustrous posters stance generally.
Auldheid, as I said to you the other day, you like to intellectualise the simple in a way which I believe attempts to gloss over truth and make it opaque.
Now I know your general reason for this lies in your wish to intellectualise everything. This is a bit like tonydonnely in reverse.
But I think you are now using this as a crutch and have actually blinded yourself to issues as a result. Your thinking goes that if there is a problem you must start with yourself and why you have a problem rather than the problem itself.
Now undoubtedly in so,e instances that is true. But in others is just nonsense. From what I hear TV is a bit of a mare for most subscribers and very often doesn’t work. The service is obviously sub standard. Now without getting into the why fors and where tos of Celtic general unwillingness to spend money or care about supporters, you have chosen to complicate this situation.
It seems to me it’s invariable something or somewhere or someone else’s fault and if the reader can’t accept that they do not have the intellectual capacity to understand the REAL reason for their unhappiness. Which according to you is so,e deep seated lack of empathy or understanding of the depth of thought they must have to think through their thoughts.
NEGANON2 on 8TH SEPTEMBER 2015 8:58 PM
….and you’re not the full shilling ……
jude,
Played yesterday afternoon.
HH
Canalamar
I have previously identified that when I put on the replay of games there is never any buffering and it’s always HD, so considering it is streaming the exact same amount of data as the live game why would there be a difference ?
====================
I’ve noticed that myself but think (and I’ve not been able to confirm) that the video file created does not contain the same amount of data as the live process being streamed.
In essence you can edit the video after recording in ways you cannot with live to reduce its size to take up less bandwith than a live broadcast.
I would say 11d.
compression?
Paisleybhoy
Sort act of Compression?
Nope – never heard of it!
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Auldheid,
It’s a live recording streamed, so what and how do they edit ?
You still hear the green brigade singing and you still get the faces in the crowd, all the details are the same. It always starts with the huddle, the first half ends with the huddle and the second half picks up where the first half leaves off during the huddle, so what exactly is different ?