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.

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

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.

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

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

Yeah ok. Sounds good.

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

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

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.

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

What do you want.
Facebook?
Mobile?

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?

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

:lol:

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

Fixed

Sounds good.

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!

Not much more to add, to be honest - mizza's pretty well summed it up. I'll start the event later at which point you can just log in, you should see the Matchday event, resume the coverage and begin commentating. The interface is pretty much the same as any IM system.

You will see comments from readers on the right - it up to you if you want to start authorising them...I'd suggest you don't until you're more comfortable with the software and the commentating - it becomes a bit of a two man operation then.

I'll have the matchday event box at the bottom of each match preview this weekend so look out for it there - it's also at the bottom of this week's squads page too.

I'm leaving it up to you guys to work out who's on when and get yourself sorted on that score.

Any other questions, lemme know ASAP.

Edited by SCR48: 15/10/2010 10:37:14 AM

Once KA sends the invite to your email, go to that and enter your display name and the blog should begin. Watch all the videos on the home page detailing how to do the finer details.

I think KA is going to give us more information shortly, and then we can begin rostering.

How do we access the game and commentate on it.

I should be good for the roar this weekend.

It seems we have a good spread at the moment, good to see some advertising in the 442 squads article.

So "Close My Console"?

It's a nice little system, I like it.

i think like imno said...lets wait for KA to come on and tell us who is on the roster. we can then take it from there.

might be a good idea to have each others numbers or emails in case you need a replacement for a game you rostered on. ofcourse that can be done once we know our roster list

I'm good to do the Friday night game and Sunday games this week - but can't do the Saturday night games as I'll be at the Roar.

Just hold on till KA drops in... I'm sure once he has a list he'll start sorting it out... don't forget to check your emails, I'm sure he didn't ask for them for nothing ;)

Preference for me would be Friday or Sat night games.

lets have a cap on who is allowed to be part. no point having 30 people because not everyone will get time.

i say we cap it at 12.

so like mizza says, only in if you committed. you wont have to do everyweek, but you must be committed.

so far, i think weve got:

davidtorres
buddha69
mizza
zimbos_05 (cant even get my own name right ](*,) )
imnofreak
scouse_roar


if there is anyone else im sorry i missed you. imno can just edit the list. moderator priviliges.

can we also have a briefing on how we access the games. do we need to create one from our coveritlive accounts or does KA set up something for us to access through our accounts?

Edited by zimbos_05: 14/10/2010 04:06:21 PM

Edited by zimbos_05: 14/10/2010 04:23:12 PM

This is the roster so far, obviously we are cutting it a bit fine for this week but the interest in people helping out is growing.

Note: All times are venue time-zones.

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

Only nominate if you can 100% do this match, if we want this to be a success people can't be pulling out just for shits and giggles.


A couple of questions to KA, is it as simple as just opening the Matchday blog page and begin typing? What happens to the text commentary from previous games? For instance, if someone does the Perth vs Nth Qld match tomorrow will the text of us practising still be visible?

Also, how do you suspend the blog? When you exit out it mentions that it won't end the ticker, it's just navigating you away from the screen, or is there a 'suspend' option that I'm not seeing?

Cheers

Just sent you a PM KA.

I think that's what will happen Imno

So are we going to attempt to do a roster on who's doing what?

Just a note to those commentating - do NOT end the coveritlive at the conclusion of your match.

I intend to try keeping the same one active for ALL the matches. At the end of your match coverage, simply SUSPEND the event. This will leave it ready for the next game without having to create a new one and inviting everyone in again.

In short: don't end, suspend. Okay? Ta!