Bruce McAvaney
‘That’s as good as it gets’: Inside the obsessive world of the AFL’s top callers
From March to September, these people are weekly guests in your home, providing the soundtrack to your football season. This is how they do it.
- Andrew Wu
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- AFL 2025
Seven announces commentary line-ups and McAvaney’s return for 2025
Channel Seven has announced its commentary line-ups for the upcoming season and a return for Australian sports broadcasting legend Bruce McAvaney to the network’s football coverage.
- Scott Spits and Claire Siracusa
- Opinion
- The Fitz Files
I’m calling it: Why ‘marvellous’ moments in sports commentary are dying out
Where are the Benauds, the Comettis, and the Warrens of the new generation? It might be the case that the talent is there, but we’re just not listening like we used to.
- Peter FitzSimons
New premier, not-so-new PM, old rocker: Inside the AFL grand final lunch
AFL chair Richard Goyder presided but stuck to talking about football rather than embattled Qantas, which he also chairs.
- Cara Waters and Lachlan Abbott
- The Scoop
- AFL 2023
McAvaney reveals the best team, player and athlete he’s ever seen
Bruce McAvaney famously kept his opinions to himself during his commentary, instead choosing to let his supreme skills do the talking. But The Scoop has pinned down the media maestro.
- Sam McClure
Steroids, money and state wars: The demise of the Australian Cup
Bruce McAvaney has seen plenty of Australian Cups, but admits it’s no longer the classic race it once was.
- Damien Ractliffe
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- AFL 2023
McLachlan’s parting gift as AFL CEO; McAvaney inducted into Australian Football Hall of Fame
The AFL made a special announcement at their season launch inducting the legendary broadcaster to the Australian Football Hall of Fame.
- Scott Spits and Peter Ryan
- Analysis
- Melbourne Cup
Not even Eddie could arrest ratings decline: The good, bad and ugly of the Melbourne Cup
The good, bad and ugly of a chilly Melbourne Cup Day, and how some viewers missed the race that stops the nation.
- Damien Ractliffe
- Opinion
- AFL 2022
Latest rant over Daisy Pearce just a bad call
Five years later, some men still get their knickers in a twist over a woman AFL commentator. Sorry, their jockstraps.
- Greg Baum
- From the futon
- Tokyo Olympics
Bruce McAvaney is a national treasure. May he drop this talk of retirement
The start of the athletics program means The Festival of Bruce has begun. He says this could be his last Olympics. Let’s hope not.
- Andrew Webster