Sports Entertainment Network (SEN) has announced big-name additions to its existing list of AFL commentary talent, including headliners Luke Hodge, Nathan Jones, Nat Edwards, and Matt Hill.
Collingwood coach Craig McRae will also share his first-year coaching journey fortnightly on 1116 SEN’s drive show The Run Home with Andy & Gazey.
One of the most well-respected players of all time, dual Norm Smith medallist Hodge will join the 1116 SEN Saturday morning program Crunch Time from 11am-1pm. Hodge will sit alongside SEN broadcasters Gerard Whateley, Dermott Brereton and Kane Cornes on the weekly program.
Hodge will also make a regular midweek appearance on mornings with Whateley as well as providing commentary on AFL Nation games throughout the season.
Sundays will look different in 2022. AFL journalist and sports presenter Nat Edwards will host an all-new Sunday Crunch Time morning program, from 11am-1pm. Crunch Time on both this Saturday and Sunday will be live from the MCG Festival of Footy Live Site.
SEN has also announced that former Melbourne Demon’s captain Nathan Jones is joining AFL Nation as the Friday night expert alongside 1988 Brownlow medallist Gerard Healy, with Gerard Whateley and Anthony Hudson calling the play-by-play action.
Former Geelong player Josh Jenkins will join as a new regular on 1116 SEN Melbourne drive program The Run Home with Andy & Gazey every Friday, from 3pm-6pm. Jenkins will join Maher behind the microphone, looking at not just AFL games and insights but the broader news cycle from across the week.
After years of coaching experience at The Adelaide Crows, Collingwood, and Geelong, Brenton Sanderson will also join the AFL Nation team as an expert commentator during matches across the weekend.
Former AFL forward Scott Cummings joins the SEN WA team and will call all Perth AFL matches alongside Tim Gossage, Paul Hasleby, and Peter Vlahos throughout the season.
Sports commentator Matt Hill, regarded as Australia’s best horse race caller and one of the best all-round calling talents, will return to Sunday afternoons on AFL Nation.
Iconic AFL figure Daisy Pearce will also return to the Sports Entertainment Network, taking up her position on AFL Nation as well as being a regular on Whateley. So too will Geelong star Patrick Dangerfield, re-joining Whateley and continuing his own fishing and boating show Reel Adventures each Saturday morning.
Jo Wotton has also re-joined the play-by-play commentary team. Wotton will call alongside Gerard Whateley, Anthony Hudson, Dwayne Russell, Matt Hill, Andrew Maher, Sam Hargreaves, Matthew Cocks, Jordan Kounelis, Kym Dillon, Miles Pfitzner, and Tom Rehn.
Rounding out SEN’s commentary team are Campbell Brown, Nick Dal Santo, Adam Cooney, Liam Pickering, Darryl Wakelin, Brent Staker, Hamish Hartlett, and Andrew Krakouer, who all return for season 2022.
SEN’s group radio director Sam Thompson said “The AFL Nation broadcast team on SEN is a stellar line-up of new and returning talent who all have diverse experiences in AFL, whether a player, coach, or expert journalist. It will make for appointment-listening right across the season”.