Welcome to the new look Celtic Quick News.
There are a few changes. We are on a new version of WordPress and are using a more modern template (which we’ve been using for CQN Magazine for some time) but your existing user name and login details will still work. The old WordPress was years out of date and we were beginning to run into issues as a consequence. To get to the comments section scroll to the bottom of the page and login as usual. The Magazine site is no longer a separate entity, news items, which previously appeared there, will now appear below the most recent two blog articles on the Celtic Quick News home page – most recent article top left, second mode recent, top right.
We’ll be making modifications over the next few days. I’ve moved server environments (from three dedicated physical servers to a modifiable virtual environment). Not convinced we have the balance right here so there’s likely to be some tweeking ahead. Also, please ignore any CQNMagazine livery for now, it’ll be replaced in due course.
Today’s article appears below but was originally published on the old template. I’ve not had a chance to copy comments from this article yet but comments from previous articles are on the new version.
Hope you like it (don’t hate it too much!).
Thanks, Paul.
Last night’s article:
Last night played out pretty much as I hoped and expected. A win to zero was what I asked for, while Qarabag demonstrated the kind of resistance which served them so well last season, before tiring late on.
Craig Gordon didn’t have a save to make. What worries there were at the back came from the sudden realisation that Qarabag were up-field and within the kind of range that a hit-and-hope effort could fly in. Concerns in Celtic’s final third are a bit more pronounced. Up against a well organised defence, we created very little and again relied upon a set-piece to break the deadlock.
Did you notice the passing issues we had in the first half? Individual players can have days when passing just isn’t right but when things go wrong on an industrial scale, there’s usually a reason for it.
For me it looked like we were not compact enough. It’s normal to spread across the field when dealing with a packed defence, but we were invariably over-ambitious with our passing. Try to think of partnerships which looked good last night? Apart from the central defensive paring I can’t think of any. Lots of good performances, but the first half was marked by poor passing and players not in-tune with each other.
The change to 4-4-2, which is naturally more compact, helped, even as it came at the cost of our best player until then, Nir Bitton. There are lots of reasons why most of the time we are going to stay with 4-2-3-1, but we need to learn how to be more compact in this formation.
I was reluctant to see Kris Commons make an appearance, as tense Celtic Park crowds are not the most understanding of players who are short of fitness. Fortunately, Kris didn’t need to cover a lot of ground, but his first touch of the season was good enough to create the best opening of the game. Thereafter he brought a tangible change in the goal threat.
We’ve talked about this before, but it’s worth restating. To win tight games you often need to create seven or eight good chances. Without Kris Commons we rarely do this.
We will be clear favourites now to progress, and although Qarabag are a decent team, we saw nothing too concerning, but the tie is far from finished. Get the tactics wrong out there, fail to create partnerships from middle to forward, and we’ll be turfed out.
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Help ma Boab, whaur um ah??
Well, this is different.
I blame Peter Lawwell.
We fear change. Sack the board!
What’s happened,am lost in space.
Me no likely
Goodbye, I’ll away for a while
Whoa, what an F5 that was :-)
I can see there being “teething” problems, it’s trending at Celtic at the moment:))
Damn password problems….
Are the rest still in the transporter room??
Nice!
Could do with a stronger contrast for the text though. Light grey on a white background’s not ideal for us myopes.
ooooooooh!
Haven’t commented for years.
Thought I’d better try it out.
Oh and the phone link to the goal last night showed the goal as a well worked training park manoeuvre perfected, whereas the CTV highlights made it look a sloppy affair.
The view from the phone showed VVD and Bhoyata together until Commons began his run, they both peeled of in different ire toons with the defenders following VVD leaving big Bhoyata to nod it past the keeper, keep practicing them Celts it’s working. CTV showed up by a supporter with a phone, no doubt phones will be banned for the next game to stop hackers getting all the best angles :OD )))
good to hear from you hoople
Meanwhile, in a galaxy far, far away ……..
Starry
Maybe because it takes over ten seconds to refresh
Can 8((
Ah,modren,see?
As for the new website, sorry too many ads it feels less about Celtic and more about salesmanship
Okay.
Oot !
Can’t make letters bigger on phone.
what happened to the old wordpress template money?
The new font appears here as a light grey and harder for my old eyes to read. The old one was blacker and sharper.
Off to Specsavers.
It’s all about the money money money
Sheep get an away goal as Kairat win 2-1 in their first leg in Kazakhstan
BT
We’re all going to need new Gregory Pecks:))
Blimey! Its a bit posh guv.
My first reaction, I hate it bloody well hate it. We will see how it progresses, maybe I’ll get used to it or maybe I’ll flounce in protest.
stuckinthemudcsc
is there a way to allow my posts to come up in green and for the words to flash on and off with a backdrop of Hoopy doing a big jobby on the ibrox centre circle?
im informed the most up to date wordpress templates have that functionality
I’m fading….fading…feeling cold..so cold.
Canamalar on 30th July 2015 5:31 pm
The view from the phone showed VVD and Bhoyata together until Commons began his run, they both peeled of in different ire toons
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Ire TOONS? IRE toons?
Have you been at the drawing board?
What are they? An Angwy Wabbit, a Demented Daffy Duck or Yosemite Sam pounding a keyboard?
LOL.
Seriously I was at the other end so I’ll have a look at a replay.
Where are the post numbers? I demand to know where they are hiding!
Anyone got the phone link for last night’s goal?
Font size is too weeee
Well done on the new website Paul. No doubt you’ll take pelters :) but as Ronnie is finding, progress is a long road.
As for criticism regarding the ads I know the cost that this site incurs increases as the usage and expectation levels rise.
I am sure the new site will provide us with the level of internet bampottery we have come to expect.
From a place far away….well it appears so. Do we have a contrast switch on this telly?
I’m all for change as long as it happens somewhere else and doesn’t involve me changing anything at all..
No, it all looks good, can I be the first member of the ” like the new format clique”?
grey
Wits happin on here :0)
Auldheid,
Forget the replay, every angle CTV show it from looks the same, that’s my point the phone vid showed a well worked goal CTV showed a lucky break that Bhoyata managed to find himself clear with only the keeper challenging him, seriously if you can find that phone vid you’ll see a great goal.