Had your fill of international football for the year? Good. Let’s get on with business. Delighted Mark McGhee’s back in football, and at Motherwell. I had a soft spot for Mark back in the days, ‘Hammer of the Hearts’, as he was.
By watching Mark McGhee you saw a profound change take place in the game. Until the mid-80s it was possible to get by in the game aligning brute strength with decent levels of skill, as Mark had, or even sublime skill with compulsive inertia, which was enough for Charlie Nicholas to carve out a career for a while.
Almost in an instant the game changed. Mark was praised (and valued) with the most unflattering chant, Nicholas was finished after the debacle of Raith Rovers. Not that he’s bitter.
Best of luck to big Mixu too. I’m long on record saying we don’t need a ‘strong Rangers’ (sic.), but the flip side of this is that we do need teams like Aberdeen and United meeting the grade.
Murray Capital Group posted a £13.6m pre-tax profit. I’ve been writing about this wolf in wolf’s clothing for long enough to know the script with this matter.
I know many CQN’ers have helped Glasgow the Caring City over the years. You should take a look at the work they carried out with Syrian and Afghan refugees in Serbia this month. If you are on Facebook, give them a like here. It helps the volunteers to know their efforts are appreciated.
Then maybe ask older Celtic fans what they know about Novi Sad, it’s a story worth telling, even 48 years on.
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Part two of Gerry,
http://youtu.be/qGEWoHDaeak
HT
I don’t agree with you re NA2, at least he is constant, has been for years, and he will argue his point, TD on the other hand will not debate anything.
Guys who are board lovers are imo the cause of the bickering on here, years ago posters got on and never the name calling, it’s the clappers in the main who started the divide.
Now you may well disagree, and many will, but I give not a jot, as it’s my opinion, and if I held yours, I wouldn’t hold mine :-)
HH
I have been keeping an eye on the CQN visitor figures this week and can assure you that the numbers are very robust. I don’t have the exact figures at hand as I am visiting family in Edinburgh but I know that on Friday over 25,000 people were on CQN and over the next few days over 19,000 people were on the site. This morning around 11am there were around 400 people on the site – more than 70% were reading about the loan signing from Manchester United. That was just a snap shot.
THE_HUDDLE @ 8:56 PM,
Must concur, the lack of trolling has certainly been a noticeable feature of the International break – was there a purge?
Also as Celtic haven’t played, the Doomsayers haven’t been in action. For many a long year the Blog has always been at it’s busiest after a poor display or a defeat, the worse the display, the worse the defeat the busier the Blog.
Of course there are a lot good posters missing but then few posters are prolific or even consistent these days. Most come on from time to time and brighten the place up.
As long as we know what the weather is doing on an EK morning and there are chaps who are prepared to spend their lunchtime on the f5 button and we can Crop & Roll on a Friday night, we know the world is fine.
Hail Hail
BMCUW
I was once a very frequent poster….for some 10 years or so. Seldom post at all now. Too many posters now have an agenda. The independence period brought a lot of friction to the blog. There’s still a poster who enjoys ramming the fact that he “voted aye” down people’s throats.
Give it a rest ffs. Then there’s those whose every post is aggressive and violent in nature. It never used to be like this. It’s stopped me posting on a regular basis. Still read daily for news….but any news gets lost in the vitriol. I’m almost giving up the blog altogether. It’s not fun anymore.
WINNING CAPTAINS on 14TH OCTOBER 2015 10:04 PM
I have been keeping an eye on the CQN visitor figures this week and can assure you that the numbers are very robust. I don’t have the exact figures at hand as I am visiting family in Edinburgh but I know that on Friday over 25,000 people were on CQN and over the next few days over 19,000 people were on the site. This morning around 11am there were around 400 people on the site – more than 70% were reading about the loan signing from Manchester United. That was just a snap shot.
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No doubts WC – I think the question is why people are not posting so much on the blog. Personally I think there are a variety of reasons. As soon as we lose a game – watch the figures fly through the roof. :-)
BankieBhoy
Cheers for the reply.
I do understand that and I know Paul must have laid out a lot of money to provide us with this platform over the years,so it’s more than fair enough to use ads to cover a bit of the costs.
That’s why I never moaned about it till now, but it does seem to be having a real effect on the number of posters.
As for the techie solution, yes. Am coming home this weekend to see my daughter who is light years ahead of me with technogeekery and will hopefully sort me out with adblocker software.
She’s 10 BTW… :)
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 14TH OCTOBER 2015 9:44 PM
I will not begin to speculate, second guess why Posters have deserted posting. Their decisions whatever their reasons.
Me personally, lurk mostly these days but always look in. Will I ever desert CQN high unlikely.
I will continue to post and contribute if I have a view to express.
If we all give up and do not keep the faith then yes your fear will be realised.
You are CQN, I am CQN, we are all CQN…it’s up to you and me.
Too many friends made to lose touch. Fortunately those who do not post anymore I have got other ways of keeping in touch.
The the thought of no more Hootenays fills me with fear, never mind losing CQN.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
31003
Aye,mate. You are one of those I referred to. Sadly one amongst many.
I wish you-and those like you-were on here more often. But more than that,I wish the site would give you all a good reason to be on here more often.
Find people on CQN take posts personal. I’ve been called all sorts on here and couldn’t care less.
The Sevco doomsayers often mention the dilapidated state of the Govan Superbowl. As I have not had cause to visit for some time :-) to witness it with my own eyes, can anybody put any flesh on the bones :-) of these stories? Is the stadium in imminent danger of collapse? ……. Needing three seats replaced?……… Or somewhere in between? Does anybody have any reliable information on this?
I am beginning to weary somewhat of the reports of “well placed sources”. Anyone got the real SP?
LENNYBHOY
The friendships forged via this site are an ongoing pleasure,mate. No doubt about that.
HH
31003 on 14TH OCTOBER 2015 10:05 PM
BMCUW
I was once a very frequent poster….for some 10 years or so. Seldom post at all now. Too many posters now have an agenda. The independence period brought a lot of friction to the blog. There’s still a poster who enjoys ramming the fact that he “voted aye” down people’s throats.
Give it a rest ffs. Then there’s those whose every post is aggressive and violent in nature. It never used to be like this. It’s stopped me posting on a regular basis. Still read daily for news….but any news gets lost in the vitriol. I’m almost giving up the blog altogether. It’s not fun anymore.
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Couldn’t agree more mate. Posted similar the other day – it’s so boring reading the same attention-seeking characters repeat their agenda day in day out. Still at it. Dull, dull, dull. No attempt at discussion.
Greenie…………..
Greatstuff mate…….
…..How is she at tunin’ VHS players? ;)
HH
THE EXILED TIM – I disagree with your main point and side with HT. It’s tedious, repetitive and usually one or two examples of extreme behaviour are used to denigrate a whole society. OK we get it, that’s that posters opinion but to come on nightly with the same IMHO guff is a turn off.
When Celtic have a good result we usually see a one line post saying well done or something similar then nothing until the next night when the usual hyperbole returns and spoils any feelgood factor from the result.
TD67 reads his maws papers then gives us his wisdom which is usually so over the top that pravda wouldn’t print….
TBH – I don’t know what the answer is, bring back the singing detective and we’ll all be united again…
Where are the lads that stood with us when CQN was made?
Sean South – you still there?!!
:-))))
Tony D getting stick for not having a bad word said about the Hoops. I’ve a uncle like that he’s a LEGEND.
CQN is much more than just a blog.
Don’t believe me?
Think back to Saturday, for those who were there.
Now that was fun, informative and we raised money for charity, without this blog we wouldn’t have that.
Think of the other things that have happened here, that otherwise we wouldn’t have known about, or been able to contribute to.
Bringing Martin Home, Oscar, Shay, Mary Meals.
Open to all, which means putting up with Roasters, bams and those with that intransigent viewpoint.
Scrolling by is an art form I am getting good at.
If you want CQN to prosper, post.
It is that simple.
I will.
I have made friends I would never have had but for this place, that matters.
Chairbhoy, i was driving in East Kilbride an hour ago and gritters were out even though its not forecast to drop below zero tonight.
I watched last night ‘s euro qualifiers highlights, earlier. Major downside, he of unsurpassed dignity, McLeish, was on it .
It showed highlights of Albania’s game against Armenia. A few Albanian players had a beard. When we played Partizan Tirana in 1979, Danny had to shave his beard off to make sure he was allowed into Albania.
“My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line, and kiss my ass.”
― Christopher Hitchens.
DOC
Yep. That counts big,mate. And that’s why we should all want the site to prosper.
And with that my last comment for the night I’m going to flounce till tomorrow, it’s been far too long since we’ve had a good flounce. Let’s start a bring back a flouncer campaign…
I’ll start with Tom, come back Tom….
Talking of insults, I received one of the strangest when Thompson Twin said I was as thick as a bottle of chips.
A new one to me as I have been called many a name, normally one doubting my parentage.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 14TH OCTOBER 2015 10:12 PM
It has indeed and remember I have your mobile number and e-mail addy, if you stop posting be afraid be very afraid…:)
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
LENNYBHOY
I don’t look good in a tutu,mate!
WINNING CAPTAINS on 14TH OCTOBER 2015 10:04 PM
I have been keeping an eye on the CQN visitor figures this week and can assure you that the numbers are very robust. I don’t have the exact figures at hand as I am visiting family in Edinburgh but I know that on Friday over 25,000 people were on CQN and over the next few days over 19,000 people were on the site. This morning around 11am there were around 400 people on the site – more than 70% were reading about the loan signing from Manchester United. That was just a snap shot.
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WC, I am sure the numbers visiting CQN are healthy and may get healthier still as time goes on.
But numbers posting on the blog are down, most definitely. You don’t need the metrics in front of you to see that.
So people are coming to CQN, reading an article or two, maybe scanning the blog, and beetling off again. But not posting.
Years ago I used to be a regular in Maley’s over on eTims which, while it was not a patch on CQN in terms of traffic and volumes of posts, was still a good wee place to look in to once or twice a night and say hello.
Then the guys at eTims revamped their site, got rid of the Maleys chatroom and went for the straight publishing model – regular articles, opinion pieces, with minimal input from readers.
I have been wondering for a wee while if this is the plan for CQN?
This is not a criticism, not even a veiled one! CQN has given me a lot of pleasure over the years. Free to me, though I suspect not to Paul, so I am in no position to start bellyaching about it changing.
But I would be very careful of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
all the best and HH.
Natknow
I am at Haymarket Station waiting for the late train. Last time I did that was the night we lost to Legia Warsaw. A horrible experience.
I posted a list of CQNers last week who were on the CQN Roll of Honour from the second CQN Annual the Christmas before last. The one before had even more missing names – guys like McGrain in Spain.
We have had 3 CQN Annuals and each has carried a Roll of Honour. We have lost significant numbers each year. It’s sad and would be good at least to find out that our old friends are okay.
Careful? Wary. Christ, I can’t even blame that on iPad predictive text…
I am new in here, so can’t really comment on the perceived drop in quality/rise in hostility etc on the blog. What I can say is that people withdrawing their input is a strange way to arrest any decline in standards or quality, if this is the case.
Look how the boycott of Dodo Quick News worked out? ;-)
WINNING CAPTAINS on 14TH OCTOBER 2015 10:32 PM
Natknow
I am at Haymarket Station waiting for the late train. Last time I did that was the night we lost to Legia Warsaw. A horrible experience.
I posted a list of CQNers last week who were on the CQN Roll of Honour from the second CQN Annual the Christmas before last. The one before had even more missing names – guys like McGrain in Spain.
We have had 3 CQN Annuals and each has carried a Roll of Honour. We have lost significant numbers each year. It’s sad and would be good at least to find out that our old friends are okay.
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Should’ve told me you were at Haymarket sooner mate – I’m 10 mins away and could have met you for a bevvy! LOL! :-)
I’m still here, looking in from St Lawerence Gap, Barbados :-)
Cowiebhoy
Shithole
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In other news…
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COWIEBHOY on 14TH OCTOBER 2015 10:45 PM
I’m still here, looking in from St Lawerence Gap, Barbados :-)
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I was there in 2001 mate – watching the Liverpool vs Alavez UEFA Cup Final in a pub at some weird hour of the day. Loved it! Wish I was there now. :-))))
TSOAL
Wasn’t he the leader of ZANU-PF before Mugabe?
Natknow…
There you go, all those who think back to the good aul days forget about the likes of Sean South, contumacious just doesn’t begin to describe him…
Next you’ll be suggesting we have a Pa88y…
DALLAS DALLAS WHERE THE HECK IS DALLAS @ 10:26 PM,
Talking of insults, I received one of the strangest when Thompson Twin said I was as thick as a bottle of chips.
I remember that, most bazaar, a particularly unpleasant fellow, you have to wonder why they come on…
Glad aul Jobo won’t be freezing t’morra.
Hail Hail
CHAIRBHOY on 14TH OCTOBER 2015 11:02 PM
Natknow…
There you go, all those who think back to the good aul days forget about the likes of Sean South, contumacious just doesn’t begin to describe him…
Next you’ll be suggesting we have a Pa88y…
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Aye – believe me when I say my tongue was firmly in-cheek when I made that comment. :-)))
Still – doesn’t he still owe us all a pint or something? I’m sure he promised to if we won the league one year – which of course we did. Meanwhile he spent his time telling us how bad CFC were.
Anyway – point you make is very valid. “The good old days” are not always as good as we sometimes remember. There’s always been rockets….
NATKNOW
Mibbe so,but in the good old days,rockets took us to the moon. And Celtic aimed for the stars.
So stick that where the sun don’t shine(!)