Following an outstanding season in which they each won nine of 10 games, Daisy Pearce’s Melbourne Demons will head to Adelaide Oval to take on Erin Phillips’ Adelaide Crows in the 2022 AFL Women’s Grand Final, this Saturday from 11.30am AEST on Seven and 7plus.
Australia’s #1 football commentary team are locked and loaded for the biggest day on the AFLW calendar, with Seven’s Abbey Holmes, Jason Bennett, Jo Wotton, Bec Goddard, Mel Hickey and Sam Lane bringing footy fans all the action live on Saturday afternoon.
Returning for Thursday Night Footy, Seven’s commentary team will broadcast live from the Adelaide Oval when Port Adelaide take on Melbourne from 7.30pm AEST. Then, Geelong meet Brisbane at GMHBA Stadium for Friday Night Footy, for the first time since their fiery clash in Round 15 of the 2021 season, live and free from 7.00pm AEST.
The AFL Round Four matches broadcast on Seven this week are:
Port Adelaide v Melbourne, Adelaide Oval – 7.30pm AEST Thursday
Geelong Cats v Brisbane Lions, GMHBA – 7.00pm AEST Friday
AFLW Grand Final: Adelaide Crows v Melbourne – 11.30am AEST Saturday
Richmond v Western Bulldogs, MCG – 6.30pm AEST Saturday
VFL Box Hill v Sandringham – 12.00pm AEST Sunday
Hawthorn v St Kilda, MCG – 2.45pm AEST Sunday
Fans in NSW, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia can also watch Round Four matches involving teams from their home states live and free on Channel 7.
The Front Bar is back again on Wednesday night with guest appearances from three-time AFLW Best and Fairest winner, Erin Phillips, ahead of her fourth AFLW Grand Final appearance, as well as four-time premiership Hawk, John Platten.
Ahead of Friday Night Footy, Matthew Richardson will host pre-game show the Friday Night Countdown live from GMHBA Stadium on 7mate and 7plus.
Following Friday night’s match, Adam Cooney, Georgie Parker and Cam Luke will once again settle in on the sofa, offering viewers their unique take on the Cats v Lions clash as Armchair Experts returns to Seven and 7plus.
Georgie Parker, Heath Shaw and Dale Thomas will return live and free on 7plus on Sunday night at 6.00pm AEST straight after the game for The Sunday Session. Hawthorn captain, Ben McEvoy will feature in this week’s episode, while the trio give their unfiltered take on the week that was.
Note that in Sydney, the AFLW Grand Final post-match presentation and wrap will air on 7TWO at 2.30pm, due to 7mate screening the AFL clash between Swans and Kangaroos live from the SCG (Fox Footy production).
According to the Herald Sun, Abbey Gelmi will be the new host of Footy Central updates.
Meanwhile, it’s reported that Seven are using Sunday afternoon games to trial rookie commentators alongside Brian Taylor. Last week we heard Matt Hill, previously Alister Nicholson, and Jason Bennett is also part of the rotation.
Tomorrow night (Thursday 07/04), Hamish McLachlan will pair Jason Bennett.
According to the above press release, tonight’s Port Adelaide v Melbourne match will air from 5.30pm on Ch 7 Perth. It’s not clear whether the broadcast will switch to 7mate at 6pm so the main channel can show the 6pm News.
Abbey made her Footy Central debut last night during half time of Richmond-Western Bulldogs clash. She also joined in the post-match discussion after giving the update on the result of Fremantle-GWS encounter.
Because some footy fans might not have heard the news of Jacqui’s departure last week, and wondered about the sudden change of Footy Central presenter.
I really wish Jacqui we’ll… I hope she has something good lined up else where, because she really has walked away from something good at Seven. But I can completely understand if they were offering her less pay (if that was the case).
I actually prefer the same colour, however not the yellow. Have always thought the different background colours on the scorebug for each team just doesn’t look right & rather distracting. It was just a change by Ch7 last year for the sake of making a change, just like the unnecessary additiona of goals + behinds :-/
The score bug would looks heaps better if it was the dark grey for both teams like this one of St. Kilda…
Even better if they removed the goals + behinds like they start the game before a score is made. Less is more
It’s a handy visual guide to let viewers know which team is wearing which colours and a similar system is used in most American and international sport now. It’s especially helpful if one team is wearing a clash strip with different colours to what they would normally wear.
They’ve also got it wrong again for the AFL. St Kilda is in predominantly black but they’ve gone with white as the main colour.
This is important information as it describes how accurately a team is scoring, which is often a deciding factor in who wins.
