Fox Footy really frustrates me by how seemingly every year, the channel merely goes through the motions of covering the AFL and AFLW seasons without really innovating and enhancing their product.^
Take the two new shows they announced today - Face-to-Face is merely just another interview show in the same mold as Open Mike & Bob while Best on Ground seems awfully similar to Bounce. Instead of using the space/time having a dedicated channel provides to experiment with different shows/ways of covering football, Fox just keeps putting out the same type of shows season-after-season and over relies on the same few people to front them (eg; Lyon, Dunstall, Brown, Riewoldt, etc).
As someone who watches a fair bit of US sport and sees the different types of shows which feature on channels like NFL Network and MLB Network, it’s frustrating how Fox doesn’t take full advantage of the potential which exists in having dedicated league channels.
^ My same gripe also equally applies to Fox League too.
It’s also disappointing the team graphics on the scorebug don’t represent the colours the teams are wearing in the game. Melbourne are wearing royal blue tonight so the logo should reflect that.
Also don’t think the line separating the score breakdown and the total score is necessary. And maybe the highlighted colour around the logo should match the jumper colour
One minor change which strikes me as odd. When the total score is being updated, the first digit changes before the second digit. So for example if the score goes from 79 to 85, it very briefly reads 89 before the second digit changes.
It should be a thin bar on the bottom like other sports around the world, only NHL is the only sport it’s still top left. Hopefully tweaks made over the coming weeks
