My understanding is that AFL prefers "stacked" scores (think the late 90s to early 2000s) - the "clock middle" layout is really a soccer thing that most other codes (excluding Gaelic football) have just accepted in one form or another.I didn’t hate 10’s football scoreboard & it could work in AFL with some tweaks - bit bigger & expanded to fit scores of 100 for both etc
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I do agree that 9’s leauge scoreboard won’t work with AFL but this could (again with tweaks)
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Part of this comes down to GFX systems designed primarily for football being tweaked to accommodate rugby, AFL, etc. - a lot of these have preset layouts but the back-end can be modified for other sports.