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 The old WordPress was years out of date and we were beginning to run into issues as a consequence.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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Goodnight/morning!
HH
HH midnight crew!
Trying to figure out this new stuff.
Hard to disengage ma auld ML4 brain from “Don’t mind progress, hate feckin’ change!
HH
TC45
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My iPad keyboard smilies don’t work
LOL
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My real-life ones aren’t worth a damn either…
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What is the Stars,
Thanks for the cracking tips this week, they have been outstanding, I’ve just missed out a few times but you have been on Top Form. Ronny could dӕ wӕ a dude like you, right noo. :))
Ronny In!
Let’s try this then
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Midnight.
Night all.
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I’ll give this a try before I hit my cot.
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JINKY
Well,what do you know?
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A linky to JINKY. Magic!
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Now,if I can find a way to highlight it…
BOBBY,
Patience.
Anger, apparently, is an energy.
WTF.com
Morning bhoys…..difficult getting used to the new cqn, whatever next….hoverboards?
HH
I’m Glad the Firefighters for Christ are mair linked now.
Good Job P67
Morning All,
The page is working better now thanks Paul the rebooting must have done the trick.
Only one hitch if you try and use your emoji keyboard the following message appears.
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Hail hail fly the flag. :-)
It is very late.
Thank You Paulinhio67.
Am ah foo?
Morning all first full day of the new blog
Woo hoo
Homersimpsoncsc
Winning Captains and Paul,
Struggling to log in from west coast USA. Multiple log ins to get this far. Keep getting redirected to the iPad App Store to silly games when log in is attempted. iPhone log in is impossible for the same reason! HELP!!!
Good Morning CQN from Mountblow
Great work done by all on the new CQN site
A big thank you Paul 67 for all the hard work you put
into running this wonderful site keep up the fantastic work
Had a great post match swally on Wednesday night with Delaneys Dunky had his Polish
Friends they got a great welcome into the to the Celtic family before kick off
DD missed you in the Horse and Barge was in after the game
For my wee night cap
Looking forward to meeting all the bucketeers on Saturday for the Kano
Foundation collection
Guys bring loads of cash for this fantastic organisation
God bless you all
Hail Hail
Mt
Oh oh, now in a page reloading loop too.
Quick!!!! Post this before it reloads again!!!!
Hope it got through.
Scratcher for me. Newsnow Celtic not nearly as entertaining….
…was ..just testing the smileys but “message could not be saved, try again later. !!??
I think the old CQN will become like a departed player. ie Vastly improved now that he/it is no longer with us 0:-).
Off to the golf on a reasonable (by this summer`s standards) day.
JJ
Hello again all you young rebels.
The wearing of the green ….part 2
Maybe it was all that running through hunland with my scarf up my jumper
and maybe it was all the slaps and abuse but as we all know Karma is a
wonderful thing,and it certainly toughened me up.
My da used to regale me with stories about the Celtic greats, he’d say
” that Bobby Evans what a player he covered every blade of grass today to
make sure Celtic won ”
Well that was me , out with the ball and although we only had black ash and
potholes with broken glass i made sure i covered every blade of ash, and in my
mind i was doing my bit for the bhoys.
Then he’d say ” big McPhail that man could score with any foot ” that was me
out again to dark o’clock smashing the ball against the tenement back close wall
with my weaker foot and much to the auld yins consternation
taking out most of the staircase windows but it was for the Celtic and that was
o.k. as far as i was concerned.
All that and more made me a decent player and i was captain of the local
amateur team much to the chagrin of my childhood tormentors and bullys, so
it must have been particularly humiliating for them having me berating them
in my own inimitable way when they were not pulling their weight, but there was
no comeback because they were inferior players and they knew it.
The pubs then shut at 2.30 and the hordes made their way down to our park with
the carryouts and there would probably be a couple of hundred, more if the
stickies were playing away and it wasn’t long till the battles started all over the
place but the irony of it all, they would shout ” c’mon Mick or c’mon Pat ( my mate )
get into these fenian basses no matter who we were playing.
Bizarre.
H.H Mick
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Has Jobo not looked out the window yet ?
BOGNORBHOY on 31ST JULY 2015 7:24 AM
Has Jobo not looked out the window yet ?
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Looks like the new blog doesn’t support EK weather reports:-(
Good morning friends and a Big Happy NewlookCQN Friday from a dry, fairly bright but rather windy East Kilbride.
Some things never change ;-)
I was wrong :-)
Good morning Bhoys. Friday off and 1day to flag day. Crackin.
Linked with a striker. Stokes for the off as well. I am worried we are still very light up top still.
Dry in ML6
KLV
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Whoah!
Nice new place Paul!