Luke Hodge has joined the Channel Seven AFL Commentary team permanently joining as an Expert commentator.
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Ricky Ponting’s one-on-one interview with Luke Hodge.
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State League schedules being gradually released. WAFL will provide their TV details later but they are scheduled to show 20 regular season games (including the WA Derbies, which will either be East Perth vs West Perth or the Fremantle Derby between South and East).
SANFL have also released a TV schedule with 3 matches to be added to the following schedule
ROUND 2 (Easter): South vs Glenelg (Noarlunga), Good Friday 2:10 CST
ROUND 3: Port vs South (Alberton), Sunday 11:45
ROUND 4: North vs Sturt (Prospect), Sunday 1:10
ROUND 5: Central vs Crows (Elizabeth), Saturday 2:40
ROUND 6: Glenelg vs West (Glenelg), Saturday 2:40
ROUND 8: Sturt vs Crows (Unley), Saturday 1:10, Eagles vs Glenelg (Woodville), Sunday 12:40
ROUND 9: Port vs Eagles (Alberton), Saturday 2:40
ROUND 10: Sturt vs West (Unley), Saturday 2:40, Crows vs Port (Adelaide Oval), Sunday 11:45
ROUND 11: Norwood vs Eagles (Norwood) Saturday 2:40, West vs Central (Richmond), Sunday 2:40
ROUND 12: North vs Norwood (Prospect), Saturday 2:40
ROUND 14: Eagles vs South (Kadina), Saturday 2:40
ROUND 18: Port vs Crows (Alberton), Sunday 1:10
The Olympics are during Rounds 16/17 and the second half of the Split Round 15. Kadina (Round 14 venue) is about 140km NNW of Adelaide on the Yorke Peninsula. The Crows vs Port Round 10 game is a curtain raiser to the Showdown (which is a Fox host telecast going into SA on 7). They are NOT showing the State game between SA and WA at the Adelaide Oval on May 9
The VFL fixture is going to be released this week (hopefully), just awaiting which games 7 show which held up a release for last week.
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Had to try to take the long route to get the info for the VFL schedule, but I’ve managed to get the schedule. Games played on Sunday unless stated
ROUND 1: Sandringham vs Richmond (Docklands), 12:00 (Curtain Raiser to St.Kilda vs Richmond)
ROUND 2: Williamstown vs Collingwood (Point Gellibrand), 2:10
ROUND 3: Box Hill vs Northern Blues (Docklands), 12:00 (Curtain Raiser to Hawthorn vs Carlton)
ROUND 4: Coburg vs Sandringham (Craigieburn), 11:45 (Coburg City Oval is under redevelopment this season, hence Coburg are playing home games all over the place this year, including Ballarat, Preston, Werribee, Melton)
ROUND 5: Essendon vs Casey (MCG), 12:00 (Curtain raiser to Essendon vs Melbourne)
ROUND 6: Sandringham vs Werribee (Trevor Barker Beach Oval), 11:45
ROUND 8: Collingwood vs North Melbourne (Docklands), 12:00 (Curtain Raiser to Collingwood vs North)
ROUND 9: Collingwood vs Sandringham (Victoria Park), 11:45
ROUND 10: Casey vs Collingwood (Casey Fields), 2:10
ROUND 11: Port Melbourne vs Williamstown (North Port), 2:10
ROUND 12: Port Melbourne vs Collingwood (North Port), 2:10
ROUND 13: Richmond vs Geelong (Punt Road), 11:45
ROUND 14: Werribee vs Casey (Chirnside Park), 11:45
ROUND 15: Footscray vs Williamstown (Whitten Oval), 11:45
ROUND 16: Frankston vs Werribee (Frankston), 11:45
Olympics run from Rounds 17-19, Rounds 7 (which may not have a game shown, the 7 AFL game is in Alice Springs that Sunday and they have shown the curtain raiser for that game over the last couple of years instead), 20-21 TBD
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Seven aired the Millennium Match at the MCG 20 years ago today but no footage of the game can be found anywhere.
It was a one-off match between Carlton and Collingwood
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There is a highlights clip at the AFL website right now.
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TMK, this set of graphics was the last that Channel 7 used during the AFL coverage, before switching to its blue and red scoreboard graphics.
The crowd at the MCG during the MIllennium match was played on a Friday Night with a disappointing crowd of 20,043. Why the crowd was so lower than expected?
At 2:12 in the video, there is some brown grass down there. Why did they have brown surface?
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The AFL ground must’ve been hastily configured following the Boxing Day Test match. That’s just my guess.
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Most people had better things to do to ring in the new millennium than watch a meaningless exhibition match of AFL
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Seven used the 1999 scoreboard during the Ansett Cup in 2000 before switching to the blue and white graphics
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Didn’t watch the Carlton v COllingwood game but the TV audience numbers were very shocking TMK, losing heavily to Nine and ABC. Most people especially in Melbourne watched the Millennium NYE with Eddie McGuire and the 2000 Today on ABC.
We got the game about 2PM on the Saturday Afternoon in Queensland. Couldn’t interrupt the filming of the 2nd music video for Vanessa Amorosi’s Absolutely Everybody!
I think during the TOKYO Olympics (this year)
Mark Soderstrom
Tim Lane
Michael Slater
Jason Richardson
Andy Maher
Alister Nicholson
Abbey Way
will all be used in the AFL coverage to replace the top talent going to TOKYO
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We need this Channel 10 reunion to happen.
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Lane, Maher and Luke Darcy would be an ideal team while Bruce, Hamish and co. are in Tokyo.
Georgie Parker
Dani Shuey
Parker and Shuey could host games based in Perth
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Bruce does athletics and ceremonies?
Basil does swimming and bmx bike riding
I think BT will stay in Australia and call afl.
Brayshaw not too sure? Maybe he stays in Australia and call afl.
Luke Darcy? Will he go to Tokyo?
It will largely depend on how many resources they want to use in Tokyo and how many are either studio or world feed calls. Obviously they won’t use John Casey either as he’ll be calling basketball. I’m also assuming they’ll use Jason Bennett for something which means he’ll be unavailable here and Hamish will likely be the studio anchor.
For the matches they’re scheduled to be host telecaster they may do something like
ROUND 19 (24-26 July)
FRI (Port vs Hawthorn): Taylor, Soderstrom
SAT (Essendon vs Adelaide): Brayshaw, Darcy
SUN (Brisbane vs St.Kilda): Taylor, Nigel Carmody
ROUND 20 (31 July-2 August)
FRI (Adelaide vs Essendon): Taylor, Soderstrom
SAT (St.Kilda vs Hawthorn): Brayshaw, Darcy
SUN (Melbourne vs Sydney): Taylor, Carmody
ROUND 21 (7-9 August)
FRI (Geelong vs GWS): Taylor, Darcy
SAT (Fremantle vs St.Kilda): Brayshaw, Mark Readings
SUN (Dogs vs North): Taylor, Carmody
Also as mentioned the FNF games in that period are 7:20 EST, which means 6:50 CST starts for 2 of the 3 affected games.