Fox Sports Coverage

[Remi Moses]

Thought the coverage should have showed the selections as they were happening. Way to much waffle I thought. Why not have a five minute break after every round and conduct interviews and panel thoughts etc etc. To much emphasis on the number 1 pick as well,we heard all about Scully for weeks.

[LostDoggy]

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It was horrible. Why were they discussing the 99 draft? WHO CARES?! The whole time I was just trying to hear the names being read out by each club...

[jazzadogs]

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From what I saw, not great. I ended up just coming on here/the internet instead, that way you got information about each player as they were drafted.

[divvydan]

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It was particularly bad in two ways. Firstly, I could clearly see Kevin Sheenan on there getting a little agitated as things were happening in the draft and he wanted to talk about that instead of the byplay going on between Dunstall and Lynch
Secondly, when we did pick someone unexpected at 15, there was no information given about the selection at all, so I had no idea at all who Howard was or what type of player he was etc. Admittedly the AFL draft tracker had no information on him at all.

I'm not against them showing interviews when a team is taking time over a pick and in general trying to make it more viewer friendly, it's just that it needs to be about this draft and the players, not about old drafts and former players.

[Dry Rot]

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Thought the coverage should have showed the selections as they were happening. Way to much waffle I thought. Why not have a five minute break after every round and conduct interviews and panel thoughts etc etc. To much emphasis on the number 1 pick as well,we heard all about Scully for weeks.

It was absolute poo. About what I'd expect from Telstra/BigPond.

[LostDoggy]

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Well last year I watched the full thing on the AFL site last year when Bigpond did it and it was great.

[LostDoggy]

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To much emphasis on the number 1 pick as well,we heard all about Scully for weeks.

The kid gets up on stage and says that he's speechless. Son, Melbourne told you that you were the number one draft pick a long time ago. You had time enough to commission a speech, let alone collect your thoughts.

The Foxtel coverage was so bad that it almost made for compelling viewing. In fact, I hope they televise the Brownlow next year.

Instead of following the count round by round, we'll have the camera fixed on a bald man, two biased player managers and an increasingly frustrated AFL official for the entire night. You won't know who's winning, but then you won't really care as you hear how the hosts polled in the late 1980s, discuss the 1999 Brownlow result with the guy that came fiftieth, and spend ten minutes of your life listening to someone's mum talk about something. If nothing else, it'll be revolutionary.

[GVGjr]

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Thought the coverage should have showed the selections as they were happening. Way to much waffle I thought. Why not have a five minute break after every round and conduct interviews and panel thoughts etc etc. To much emphasis on the number 1 pick as well,we heard all about Scully for weeks.

I recorded it and watched it this morning. The guys presenting did a good job but the format was all wrong. I'm told the coverage on SEN was pretty good.

[Missing Dog]

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In a word .... SHITEHOUSE

[KT31]

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In a word .... SHITEHOUSE

Talk about rubbish, only time they stopped to talk about a late pick was to mention a pick selected by one of the panels clubs.

[Remi Moses]

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For those who don't follow VFL or TAC cup closely Had no friggin idea who Lucas Markovic was! Little bio would have been nice. Don't start me on Howard,poor old Kevin Sheehan was subjected to Leon Pickering,Dunstall and Lynch's self indulgence. Then there was the unreadable little teletext on the bottom of the screen

[LostDoggy]

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It was absolute poo. About what I'd expect from Telstra/BigPond.

It was absolute CRAP It was a Fox sports production not Bigpond!

[LostDoggy]

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Did we work out who had the bigger appendage? Was it Dunstall, Lynch or Pickering? Absolute rubbish

[soupman]

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Sounds crap. Glad I didn't make the effort to find a mate with foxtel.

What I found annoying listrening to the radio is that 3AW did the whole top 10 nice and slowly with the comprehensive bio, and then whilst still talking about Trengove and Scully they go "Oh yeah. And pick 11 to Melbourne was..., Pick 12 to Carlton was..." and named those picks in about 10 seconds before going back to discuss the already extensively covered Scully and Trengove.

After that I switched to SEN which at least let the picks pan out live, but neglected to give any info on any of our picks.

[Flamethrower]

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I turned off early on....it was painful to watch. Player entry drafts are not the most entertaining or TV friendly programs at the best of times, but you have to play to your strengths at least. And that means allowing the "draft guru" use their vast array of knowledge to inform the viewers about each player drafted.

ESPN do it really well with their coverage of the NFL and NBA drafts. Mel Kiper jr is their version of Kevin Sheehan and he is the "star of the show", along with the athletes that are drafted.