Initially I thought Fox Footy might have figured out how to improve one of their shows.
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I watched the first episode of the new series last week and saw something I initially thought would make the show better.
However, it soon turned out I was mistaken.
The show in question is The Greatest hosted by Mick "bet you're still wondering what I really said to Nathan Hindmarsh" Ennis.
For the first series last year the show was essentially an edited version of a footy game deemed special for one reason or another.
Ennis would do some "analysis" of one or two tries - which really meant using some special effects to explain to us what we just saw.
And it was never very insightful. It was always along the lines of "okay, so this player with the ball will run into that gap and then pass it to that player over there".
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The whole time I'd be there watching the show and saying to myself, "yeah, Mick, I know. I just saw them score the try less than 20 seconds ago".
It really didn't add anything to the show.
The template is the ESPN Greatest Games series, where they've recognised that just showing the game highlights is a bit dull. So they add in player interviews as well as some background that gives the game some context and also emotional drama.
So I turned on The Greatest last week and saw they had Benji Marshall and Braith Anasta watching their younger selves playing in a Tigers-Bulldogs match.
I thought, "great, they've made an attempt to make the show more interesting".
But then Marshall and Anasta starting talking and I realised they'd actually made the show worse.
Instead of offering the viewer some real insight into what was happening on the field, the pair effectively forgot about the viewer altogether and started reminiscing about the game and other players.
It was all on the level of "oh, how good was so-and-so?". "Yeah, he was good", which doesn't add anything to the viewer's understanding.
Hell, that level of reminiscing is what most footy fans do when we watch old games.
If The Greatest is going to have ex-players on board, they need to be thinking about the viewer and not themselves.