AFL 2014: guide
Seven's AFL season kicks off with more footy on more nights in 2014.
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Seven’s 2014 AFL season kicks off tonight.
Seven’s coverage will feature four games every round including Friday night and Saturday night matches with NSW, QLD, SA, WA fans guaranteed every game involving home teams, every final, the Grand Final and the Brownlow Medal.
This year Seven has Sunday Night footy, more Thursday nights, extended Friday Night previews, the return of Talking Footy and three new recruits in Wayne Carey, Jude Bolton and comedian Mick Molloy.
From the new start time of 7pm tonight Seven features an extended match preview on 7mate. In Victoria and South Australia the coverage moves to Channel 7 at 7.30pm AEDT. Wayne Carey joins the Friday commentary team.
On Saturdays, Mick Molloy joins the Saturday Night Footy pregame show while Jude Bolton joins as a field commentator for Saturday and Sunday afternoons.
Sunday Night Football comes to primetime on Seven for the first time for two matches (Round 3 Essendon and Carlton / Round 15 Carlton and Collingwood).
Thursday Night Football increases from 3 to 5 matches.
Talking Footy returns with Luke Darcy as host with experts Tim Watson and Wayne Carey, 7.30pm Mondays on 7mate and 11.30pm on Channel 7.
AFL Game Day resumes with host Hamish McLachlan, Jude Bolton, Luke Ball, Andrew Welsh and Seven News chief football reporter Mark Stevens on Sundays.
Footy Flashbacks is back featuring 11 new episodes, including specials on Paul Roos, Tim Watson, Luke Hodge, Brendon Gale, Tony Liberatore, John Worsfold, Mick Malthouse and Nick Riewoldt.
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15 Responses
Cheers
Hopefully, and I realise I’m probably clutching at straws, if one channel makes the jump then the others will follow.
Slightly off-topic but what happened to 9 showing the NRL in HD in 2014?
news.com.au/sport/nrl/nine-and-fox-sports-to-retain-nrl-rights/story-fndujljl-1226454690915
I asked about a month ago. I have been told there are plans, but nothing specific. Keeping an eye on it.
Yes great to have Footy back. As Bruce would say that is S-P-E-C-I-A-L. Go Tigers!
lot of tv shows there for me to miss
Sure are a lot of white men in that photo.
@laurie Jim Wilson didn’t start the petition. Jim was asked about it and said he’d go higher than him to ask.
I’m not sure I understand the use of 7mate for a half hour highlights show whilst 7 Melb/Adel/Hobart show half an hour of BH&G that then moves to 7two. Why not just show all of BH&G on 7two and put the AFL all on 7? Makes sense to me, no channel hopping required!
SBS does the soccer in HD on Friday nights, but 7 can’t be bothered doing the AFL in HD.
Good to see the return of AFL on the Seven Network. The AFL 2014 season will be the best.
It should all be on 7Mate, not so it can be in HD, but so it isn’t on the primary channel and messing around with programming for viewers who have no interest in AFL.
YouTube has better quality than Se7en there is a petition going around started by JIm Wilson from Ch7 which surprised me I was going to provide a link but was not too sure David would approve that?
Which networks are using HD for sport differently to what they have in the past couple of years?
Nine still show NRL in SD in NSW and QLD.
Ten just finished showing the Big Bash in SD.
Hi David,
Might also be worth mentioning that all of ch7’s games will continue to be displayed no higher than SD resolution. Surely now that analogue has been switched off (and other networks are utilising their HD channels for sport), more pressure should be applied to Ch7?
Hey David what normally rates better on a Sunday Game Day or the Sunday Football Show
Can’t wait to have the footy back on TV. Go Hawks!