I liked HC09 and have a lot of time for Looman generally speaking by its nature tho it was a fairly restrictive game, tho even that allowed position changes to a degree , it made a decent contrast to M09 the PS3 version of which was so bad I went back to the PS2 game.
Tbh the XP progression and news feeds in CC look to be betterr than their equivalent in HC09, I hope the draft and free agency system is as good