With new AFL season on our doorstep, Seven has unveiled the best commentary team in the land to bring you all the action — live and free — in 2024.
Included in the star-studded line-up are famous and familiar faces such as Brian Taylor and James Brayshaw, AFL great Luke Darcy, Alister Nicholson and Jason Bennett.
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Legends of the game and some of the most highly decorated players to have graced the field will also be front and centre of Seven’s matchday coverage.
Champions such as Luke Hodge, Matthew Richardson, Shaun Burgoyne, Jobe Watson, Dale Thomas, Tim Watson, Cameron Ling, Nathan Jones, Chris Johnson, Jude Bolton and Campbell Brown will regularly give fans their expert opinions throughout the season.
And on Thursday morning Seven also announced AFLW’s greatest ever player Erin Phillips and one of the game’s most respected captains Joel Selwood will be joining the team as well.
But that’s not all … rounding out the staggering line-up is former AFLW star Abbey Holmes, and news identities Mark Soderstrom, Ryan Daniels, and Nigel Carmody.
Geelong captain Patrick Dangerfield will also continue his role with Seven, providing expert commentary throughout the 2024 season.
And popular sports caller Hamish McLachlan will feature across the first two weeks of the season, before heading overseas with his family.
Selwood, the game’s most experienced finals player, will also co-host the season-long broadcast of Talking Footy this year along with Richmond premiership captain Trent Cotchin.
The weekly analysis show returns to the screens of Seven in 2024 on Wednesday, March 6, at 9.30pm after the much-loved footy show The Front Bar.
Talking Footy will be co-hosted by Seven’s own James Brayshaw, and Tim Watson.
Managing director of Seven Melbourne and head of network sport, Lewis Martin, said it all made for an incredibly exciting year.
“As we look ahead to an incredible 2024, our team will bring Australians a fantastic AFL season, one that promises to be incredibly closely fought all the way until the last Saturday in September,” he said.
“Following one of the greatest finals series ever seen in modern day football, we cannot wait to see what 2024 has in store.
“From every nail-biting finish to the biggest day in September, Seven will be there to deliver every moment to all Australians, live and free.
“With the introduction of a group of the game’s modern-day giants in Erin Phillips, Joel Selwood and Trent Cotchin, Seven has once again assembled football’s best, most talented and most experienced commentary line-up, with fresh experience and insights, to give viewers the best possible analysis of our great game.
“With an exceptional broadcast line-up both on and off the camera – and a passion for and knowledge of the game greater than anyone – there is nobody who loves footy more than the team at Seven. Why go anywhere else?”
