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 The old WordPress was years out of date and we were beginning to run into issues as a consequence.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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Service announcement
I’m going to reboot the server in circa 10 minutes. Shouldn’t be down for too long.
Delaneys dunky Thanks for your welcoming words young man!
Madrebmacs
Good man
No flouncing now when you have your first fight with canamalar
Keep getting kicked out on tablet with “A problem occurred with the site, so it was reloaded.”
Font too small, and not sufficiently bold.
The worst problem is that I can’t stretch and expand the text without the whole page minimizing.
Very frustrating. Previously able to easily maximize text size of former site.
Good luck with it. Hope the snag list can be addressed.
Can’t get back to the first page of comments. I wanted to see the posts on how to use HTML.
Can only get back to page 3, the left side of screen seems cut off, can’t get to page 1 or 2.
GG
Magical foties. Thank you for sharing here. All saved. :)
DD- love straight back to that fine lass!
Gave your old pal Mr Darcy a fright at the cashline tonight! Didn’t know if he was getting humped or robbed.
Sends his regards to The Toker!
Madrebmacs
Keep posting sir. You know it makes good sense.
Hail Hail
AoW
The wee man is mega paranoid. Possibly my fault??
MELBOURNE MICK Thanks for the welcome. Yes I’m sure to be as aged as yourself and have followed the Bhoys mostly from afar like yourself these many years. CTV and CQN are such a wonderful source for fellas like us.When my wife and I married it was a toss up as to where we would end up…Australia or Canada and Canada got the nod because it was easier to get home for Christmas. We’ve since visited OZ and loved it. Not a lot of time in Melbourne but a great city.
Deadly Dedryck scores as defenders chase Virgil in vain!
http://streamable.com/d76m
CHANGE – aaaarrrgggghhhhh!
The only meta tags that seem to work for aure are
Bold
achieved by preceding you’re text by “” and following the text by “” leaving out the ” ”
Italics also work but use “I” instead of “b”
Screwed that up
B is used for bolding surrounded by less than and greater than
The text is then closed by /B surrounded by the same
I instead of B for bold.
DD- his wee baw face lit up when I mentioned your name. Lol
I is for ITALICS
I need to stop having beers after dinner.
BMCUWP,
Mailed ye bud, re Dublin, might be in the same digs as yourself and your Dad.
Why is my printing fading away?
Is it a hint :(
“”Beers””
In the 1st half Broonie had the ole Gandalf spell on him…
Thou shall NOT pass
Tolkiencsc
GG…
Yer a show off :)
Happy new look CQN.
Test …
On a Blackberry that’s older than Sevco ..
:)
And it seems to be working on the iPad, wasn’t earlier today.
So, a goal up, none against, decent result, or doom and gloom?
Madrebmacs Grandpa…
A wee sneaky one there, while everyone is deflected by the issues of the new format, like it, too smart to be a hun.
Enjoy mate. HH
DELANEYS DUNKY
The wearing of the green.
After the recent discussion about whether men over 50 should
wear football tops it started me thinking back to my childhood
and where i was brought up in the Kingdom of hunnery, kinning
Park, and the wearing of green was not an option if you wanted
to survive.
The Celtic top then was only worn by the players as i don’t think
many could afford it anyway but we all had our wee all green
scarves with a thin white stripe and shamrock on it.
My da would take me to the games on the Gorbals Glenties bus
and he would wear his with pride walking along the Paisley rd.
a dangerous place for a Celt but not many of the corner
hingers said much to us they usually turned away or nodded but
i always wondered about all the bruises i saw on my da’s hands and
forearms.
when his sight started failing i pleaded with him to let me go to
the games myself i would say ” da the Gorbals bhoys will look
efter me al be aright ”
” It’s not the Gorbals am worried about son it’s the getting there
yourself ”
” It’s aright da al run ”
Eventually he relented and he’d tie my scarf round my waist under
my jumper and say ” now don’t take it out till your on the bus ” and
off i went bursting with pride and my wee legs going like the
clappers, but it was only a matter of time till teenage naivety and
bravado took over and the scarf stayed out particularly after a
good Celtic win and the black eyes and sore faces were regular
and after one particular adult came out a pub and joined in the
bullying with a kick to the henry halls which i never told the auld
yin about but somebody else did the scarf went under the jumper
again.
Any way although you give it a go i knew i was never a contender
and always outnumbered and although the auld yin was losing
his sight the bully never kicked another young lhad again he wasn’t
able to.
So wear your tops with pride but be careful.
H.H Mick
Finally made it to the new site. Will take a bit of getting used to.
Enjoyed Paradise last night. Three Euro games three wins :O).
Hail Hail.
Sispini,
Great to hear you are thinking of coming over.
I think it will be a weekend not to be missed.
It is great that the CQN bhoys have a base, thanks to Almore.
HH,
Clogher
Btw, Davidopolous, shandy??!?!?!?!
Sorry, embarrassed fur ye on that one!
The Honest Mistake, cheers, to you both:-)
Grand night in Wimbledon Irish Centre.
Like the new look, I’ll try some of the links tomorrow.
CowieBhoy, lunch looks unlikely, CRC unavailable, booooooo.
‘GG
Thanks for posting the pix site – Jim Rodgers etc.
1965 Cupfinal pix were great.
I was in the Celtic end with Brian McKenna from Rutherglen.
HH
Mick
Thank you pal. A magic story for bed.
Good night God Bless oor absent faithers.
Anyone know what’s happening with Stokes?
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Daily Mail (I know!) stating that he “believes he is finished” with Celtic.
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However, same article quotes Ronny as saying “Anthony was left out because we found others better, so he has to fight to get back into the team again”
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More MSM bull….?
The logic of Women part 1
You come home from the pub and are met by your daughter who says “me and mum want chips”, no problems says I, apart from living 4 miles from chipper, have oven chips. Check freezer no oven chips. So muggins here then proceeds to par boil and fry a mountain of potatoes, the aforementioned girls devour said chips and afterwards I am told “have you a window open the house is very smokey ”
I give up.
Clogher
I am in split mind about flying or bringing the car over by ferry and touring the north first?
My son wants the latter, but he doesn’t drive. :)
Clougher Celt…
Booked up, checked the flights, only flights out available at the moment and very reasonable.
I’ll arrive on Thursday until Monday, my daughter and her boyfriend are going over two weeks later for the unofficial one!
It’s my bhoys eighteenth next weekend, a crowd including my daughter are going over to Donegal for three days to take in the Wolftones concert.
I was deemed too old.:(
Oh well, my spacing is all over the place, I’m soberish as well :(
Off work until Tuesday, other than checking up on my Da, I’m free as a bird…yehaaa
Sipsini
You too auld?
Nae chance. I would book up on the sly and surprise my daughters, given similar circumstance. My two ghirls include me in everything now they are mid 20s. Teenage years was my living hell. Two bhoys were great. Two daughters a nightmare. :)
SIPSINI
Magic. Wait till they apologise to you for all the partying then find out it was all your fault for inviting ACGR along…