So, last night I managed to sneak along to the HUNs offices to check out their latest, slightly contriversial offering, the behind the paywall, <a href="http://live-footy.heraldsun.com.au/matchpredictor/index/20120120120140101">Live HQ[/url]

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So anyways, the HUN put on a bit of a do, invited a bunch of figures in the online space, a little bit of nosh went alright, then sat us down to take us through the product.

Im gunna break here, the vast majority of what I want to write has been covered very well by the folk at SCTalk, so check out their <a href="http://supercoachtalk.com/superfooty-live-hq/">article[/url] on it first.

Its alright, Ill wait til you get back.

Still reading?

Cools.

Anyways, for my take on it, its mostly pretty standard for what youd expect, stats, a bit of user interaction, and your SuperCoach team plugged in live. Which is nice.

For mine though, the absolute hero of the piece, was the live, play-by-play reporting on what each action is scoring, highlighting of course, when its your player doing the scoring.

Now of course, we know that scores in the first quarter can be altered by what happens later on in the game, so the value of this is always going to be a little questionable - and I reckon the HUN are going to deal with a bunch of question from people asking why their players score has gone down for not doing anything - but for something to run side by side with your usual online viewing I definitely think it can add to the experience.

For me, Ill be firing up the 2 month free trial and seeing how it goes - I mean it all comes down to a personal preference on how much value it adds to your experience, and if after that, the $3 a week isnt worth it, its easy enough to just not follow through with it.

So yeah, while I still love a free internets, it will be interesting to see how this works out for them - particularly when it hits round 12 and people are dropping out of the hunt for the overall and waning interest a bit as they coast into the finals/oblivion.

Afterwards though, I managed to sneak in a few quiet ones with the boys at SCTalk, Motts and theBigSexy. Good blokes and can certainly hold their own when talking SuperCoach!

Anyways, Id love to hear your guys view on the thing - I know theres a lot of hate out their about the paywall (heck, Im not a fan of the model at all) - But it does look a decent product on the first viewing.