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 The old WordPress was years out of date and we were beginning to run into issues as a consequence.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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THE PANTALOON DUCK
SPOOKY
Ochone! Ochone! Don’t know aboot all this. Have we moved hoose?
67Heaven .. CHALLENGING THE LIE ..I am wee Oscar…… Ipox belongs to the creditors on 31st July 2015 7:03 am – See more at:
Same problem for me when trying to post a smillie.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Phone access a bit of a challenge….
And, just before I go, I don’t think the comments counter’s working properly – it’s showing at 610 but we are on page 14? Or is it no longer 50 comments per page?
Work calling…..
Whither the cash strapped scrofulous hillbillies the day?
From the Herald, (March 2015) our flag man for tomorrow.
http://m.heraldscotland.com/sport/13206002.The_enduring_class_of_Celtic_s__Gentleman_John_/
Good morning people. New site seems great and easy to use. Mon the hoops. Right back to lurking. Have a great day everyone. I’ll be at the back.
Morning Hoops, everybody settled into the new hoose?
Nice one Paul…
Cannas update my username
Tried on ink at top of page
WC
Can you drop me an email
New site still not used to my spelling I see
Neil Lennon & McCartney
Liverpool would take Dick van Dyke in return for Balotelli.
Good morning CQNers,
Congratulations to all those involved in the upgrade of CQN.
Getting a little more used to new blog format. Am I imagining things or is everybody being extra polite and non-controversial since new format has been launched. I think I’ll need to witness a major spat with Canamalar calling people the most inventive names to describe their personal sexual habits or should I say what he perceives to be their personal sexual habits based on the contents of their posts,
Yep a good spat will make the place feel more like the good ol’ days.
Morning Paul67!
I appear to have TUPE’d over to the new site with very few problems – so far.
Observations:
1. Laptop screen @150% = easy to read without specs.
2. Type colour a bit grey – there were 4/5 posts circa 22:00 that were sharper before following posts reverted to type (grey)?
3. Hard to read the posters blog-names – this will affect my automatic scroll-past (the wee doon-arra) of; trolls, politics, whingers and pedants.
4. Bring back the old green links – easier to click-on!
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I am trying to master a new iphone – will get back to you in a few months with a report. :-)
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Keep up the good work – H!H!
i’ve just tried to log in on the ole ipad, and keep going into a loop without getting into the comments. Is there something I need to do to clear this. I’m typing this on a windows 7 computer.
A streaker runs past two nuns who are walking in the park. One of the nuns has a stroke……the other one didn’t, she wasn’t fast enough.
cancel last post, switched ipad off and back on again and comments all showing up.
Morning all.
Overcast and damp down here. Radio Scotland had a meteriologist (sp?) on this morning. The chappie was saying that August is not going to be any better. It seems we have a constant westerly wind blowing across an unusually cold North Atlantic and it is set to stay the same. (Been like that since May at least, probably earlier.) Not good for the soul, at all.
Here’s hoping our team can brighten all our days, starting tomorrow.
WTF?!?!?! Where um Ah??? Not drinking that stuff again….away for a wee lie doon.
Dig the new Breed csc
Is there a list for New Blog cliques?
HH
AreyoulConesometonightCSC
Madrebmacs Grandpa
Welcome to the madhouse and stick around and post more.
Hail Hail
Good Morning fellow Hooops
Hi ho, it’s off to work I Go, but caught up with the good old blog
Melbourne Mick, you keep up the stories, great reading Ya Auld Rebel :-)
Now, Winning Captains, logged out last night, system not remembering password after requesting such ? Also when logging in, takes you back to page 1 of current blog instead of back to point your are at on logging in ?
Hail Hail
Morning all. Best part of today will be printing out boarding passes for tomorrow. Remember the prematch collection for The Kano Foundation – bring plenty of spare change.
Oh and welcome to all those past Lurkers who have decided to pop in
You see that Big G :-)
Hail Hail
FIFA review of our upcoming season …
However, there is an air of optimism around Ibrox not seen since the club was forced to start life in Scotland’s bottom tier following liquidation in 2012.
… feel free to forward to your sevconian acquaintances HH
Podium!?
Well the nearest I get to it.
Yesterday poised like a leopard but Paul67/winning captains changes the whole bloody system!
Had trouble with google and explorer but today seems ok, thanks guys for your work. With this site.
To all TRUE CQN,rs God Bless. To lurkers, you have my sympathy! Naw, as TD6u7 would say GIRUY
HH
Anyone else raise a wee sneaky eyebrow when they heard Ibrahimovic’s ‘you will be surprised at my next choice of club’ quote? Surely he wouldn’t? Would he?
Dreamland CSC
Good morning.
I notice BT Sport have the game next Weds. It’s being advertised as 7.15pm.
I take it the talk of a 5.15 KO time is the local KO time in Qarabag Land?
Saw a whole load of old blog names on the new look CQN. It seems most of us retreat to lurking rather than give the habit up completely…… Personally it’s the EK weather reports that keep me dropping in………. and WITS racing tips lately too!
Splendid job generally. It looks like a one stop Celtic Shop for me from now on. I’m giving up my sneaky look at the Daily Record on line. I have never known that rag to be more blatantly a news sheet for Sevco (or indeed the club that they replaced) ……. it’s more fanzine than newspaper.
Agree that the user names could be clearer. I don’t want to read certain trolls, sevco types, etc seeing their name clearly would help scroll past them and keep my weather and gambling habits satisfied…..
Away for a bet on tomorrow’s weather…… easy money……..
Morning all……………………………….quadruple heart by-pass went well and i’m home now.
Hopefully i’ll be here a bit longer -)
BelfastCelt on 31st July 2015 9:17 am
Anyone else raise a wee sneaky eyebrow when they heard Ibrahimovic’s ‘you will be surprised at my next choice of club’ quote? Surely he wouldn’t? Would he?
– See more at: http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/welcome-to-the-new-look-celtic-quick-news/comment-page-15/#comment-2641944
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Join Sevco? Maybe.
Burgas Hoops
Good news,keep well :-)
I like the new site/blog.
Works well on Chrome and my iPhone.
I can see what people are talking about with regards to the text in the comments box; it’s a bit light, needs darkening slightly.
HH
Wow can even post from phone with ;-)
Jungle Jim
Did I miss some sad news. Who is no longer with us?
Thanks
Many thanks bognorbhoy
HH
I like the updated site. Have no problem with fonts on my laptop.
Burgas Hoops. Well done fella it is great to hear your doing well. H.H.