You ripper, sounds good KA, and just 1 final request, are we fine to put the coveritlive link in the Matchday thread to make sure people are aware of it?

To the commentators, I've searched through the thread to suss out everyone's availability (obviously it will change week to week), and this is what I have so far, let me know if anything has changed.

scouse_roar = Friday & Sunday matches
imnofreak = Friday & Saturday matches
zimbos_05 = Brisbane home matches
Buddha69 = Sydney away matches
davidtorres = Victory away matches
mizza = Sunday matches
zizou = Victory away matches.

From that, here is a roster I have designed:

Note: All times are venue time-zones.

Friday Night 7:30pm- North Queensland vs Perth @ Dairy Farmers - imnofreak
Saturday Night 6:45pm - Melbourne Victory vs Sydney FC @ Etihad - buddha69
Saturday Night 7:45pm - Brisbane Roar vs Newcastle Jets @ Suncorp - zimbos_05
Sunday 4:00pm - Gold Coast vs Adelaide United @ Skilled - scouse_roar
Sunday 5:00pm - Wellington Phoenix vs Melbourne Heart @ Westpac - mizza


How does that sound?

Can ALL INVOLVED let me know ASAP if this is good for this one.

If it is, good luck imnofreak tonight, I'll be tuning in!

Sounds good.

Fixed

:lol:

Would love to see the commentary when/if Brosque scores.

Would it be alright if I had this week off and do it next week?

seeing as we doing from home, im happy to do brisbane roar home and away games, if im available on that day. like i said im ok for this weekend for now.

can we get a contacts list done up incase we need to find a replacement or something.

if everyone wants to PM their details i can compile the list and send it out to you guys if thats ok?

What do you want.
Facebook?
Mobile?

I'd love to do as many Sydney games as possible. :D

Also, buddha, I can't do that Saturday night game, but if Imno is happy to do the commentary for the Big Blue I'm happy to do tonight's game as well.

whatever would be the easiest way to contact you guys. something you will have at hand or you check often.

Edited by zimbos_05: 15/10/2010 12:39:42 PM

Yeah ok. Sounds good.

Zimbos, I will give you my Facebook link because that is connected to my ipod and gives me notifications

Just sent you a PM Zimbos with my details. I did forget my email so I will give you that as well because that might be handy with rosters and stuff

ok sweet. put your proper names as well...

Do I have to be the first cab off the rank!? PRESSURE.

:P

Nah no worries, I'm all good for it. Hopefully it all runs smoothly.

Yeah that might be better. You step in tonight and i'll cover the Big Blue?

That works out well, so at the moment it is:

Friday Night 7:30pm- North Queensland vs Perth @ Dairy Farmers - scouse_roar
Saturday Night 6:45pm - Melbourne Victory vs Sydney FC @ Etihad - imnofreak
Saturday Night 7:45pm - Brisbane Roar vs Newcastle Jets @ Suncorp - zimbos_05
Sunday 4:00pm - Gold Coast vs Adelaide United @ Skilled - scouse_roar
Sunday 5:00pm - Wellington Phoenix vs Melbourne Heart @ Westpac - mizza

I think we all know there will be teething problems early, so far we have 7 people interested, but I'm very confident that will grow in the coming weeks.

Dejan may be hovering around as well and may jump in to help at any stage...

Dejan may be hovering around as well and may jump in to help at any stage...oh and yes, of course, it's fine to put a link wherever you like.

Just had a play around, seems fine.

So, for clarification, what do we press when we finish our commentary?

And did you say we weren't allowed to put user comments in the comm.?

Pretty sure he said at first if you were not used to it.
IIRC

Im fairly sure you go to 'Tools' then 'Close my Console', just don't click permanently end ticker!

As buddah mention, it's a matter of getting the hang of it first, then incorporating the user comments, but if you're feeling very confident then you could give it a try.



Edited by mizza: 15/10/2010 04:13:43 PM

Can those who havnt given me their details, please get them to me

is it to late to be a text commentator?
because i really want to be a commentator for the forum.
Could you fill me in for a match next week say? Please?

A bit more time on the forum first, I think. Thanks for the enthusiasm though.

well when will i get a go ,which round do you think?
as you can see i REALLY want to be a text commentator. I am really good at this kind of stuff.

So the user comments that come in - I can select which ones are published or not? I'm not sure how that aspect of it works, so it may not be a big part of tonight's commentary. I might have a tinker at half-time or something. That's one thing the practice console didn't really cover.

Yup, you can selectthose to publish and those not to - I've also set it up to automatically take in certain twitter comments too.

I've just activated it but put it straight into standby mode - to do that yourself, just go into Tools (in the left hand column), then select Put event into standby mode. Do NOT close the event and don't just close the console please. You will be given an option to leave a message for readers - can you please just say that it will start again at kick off for the next match, state what that is and when.

Lovely - thanks.

It's pretty basic. On the practice console you can see some comments on the left hand side - that is where you will see the comments coming in from users. There is a little button that you press to approve the comment and put it in.

I've got the hang of it :P Gonna do a poll too ;)

EDIT: Got ya, KA.

Edited by imnofreak: 15/10/2010 05:59:28 PM

Where exactly will this live text be linked to?
If that makes sense.

In the bottom of the Match preview article I think