Footy with Fletch

Brad Ottens is a former Richmond and Geelong player. He played a total of 245 AFL games and kicked 261 goals. Brad is a three-time premiership player at the Geelong Football Club. He was named as an All-Australian in 2001. Brad won the mark of the year award in 2006. Brad is also currently a part-time ruck coach at the Geelong Football Club.

Simon Madden is a former Essendon ruckman who played a total of 378 games. He kicked a total of 575 goals. Simon captained the Bombers from 1980 to 1981. Simon is a two-time premiership player in 1984 and 1985. Simon was named the Norm Smith Medallist in 1985. He is a 4x Essendon Best and Fairest winner, 3x Essendon leading goalkicker. 6x VFL team of the Year and 3x All-Australian. He was also nam...

Jason was a top-up player for Geelong's VFL side in 2006. In 2006 he won the Fothergill-Round-Mitchell Medal which is awarded to the league's best young talent. Jason Davenport is a former Geelong and Port Adelaide AFL player. He played 28 games with Port Adelaide and kicked 29 goals. From 2017 until 2020 Jason was a development coach at the Carlton Football Club. He is currently the Head Coach of...

Tanya Hosch is the General Manager of Inclusion and Social Policy at the AFL, she has held this role since 2016. When Tanya was appointed she was the first ever Indigenous person and 2nd woman to join the AFL's executive ranks.

Jasmyn is an 18-year-old AFLW player with the Gold Coast Suns. Season 7 of the AFLW marks Jasmyn's debut season in the AFLW. She was selected by the Gold Coast Suns with Pick #52 in the 2022 AFLW Draft.

Alastair Lynch played for the Fitzroy Lions, Brisbane Bears and Brisbane Lions. He was selected by Fitzroy with Pick #50 in the 1986 Draft. Alastair played 306 games and kicked a total of 633 goals. He is a three-time Premiership Player with the Brisbane Lions and was involved in their three-peat from 2001-2003. Alastair co-captained the club alongside Michael Voss from 1997-2000.

Lynden was selected by Melbourne with Pick #15 in the 2004 National Draft. Lynden made his AFL debut for the Melbourne Football Club in Rd 6 in 2006 against Geelong at the MCG. He played a total of 198 AFL games between 2005-2020. Lynden was at the Melbourne Football Club from 2005-2016 where he played a total of 165 games. He then was traded to Collingwood during the 2016 trade period and played...

Libby was a former netballer that was invited to play football with the Darebin Falcons in the VFLW by Daisy Pearce.  Libby then went on to play with the Western Bulldogs from 2017 to 2019.  She was a 2018 AFLW Premiership player with the Western Bulldogs.  Libby traded to the Melbourne AFLW team at the end of the 2019 season and has been playing there ever since 2020.  She has played a total of 5...

Fergus Greene was selected by the Western Bulldogs with Pick #70 in the 2016 National Draft. He played five AFL games for the Western Bulldogs between 2018-2020 kicking a total of five goals. Fergus made his AFL Debut in July 2018 for the Western Bulldogs in their match against Port Adelaide at MARS Stadium. Unfortunately, Fergus was delisted at the end of the 2020 AFL season.  He was signed by th...

Corey McKernan played a total of 237 games with North Melbourne and Carlton. He also kicked a total of 310 goals. He was a 2x Premiership player with North Melbourne, playing in the 1996 and 1999 premierships. He played at North Melbourne from 1993-2001. Corey moved to Carlton, he played with Carlton from 2002-2003. Before he returned to North Melbourne for the 2004 season.

Dale Amos has had experience in football as a player and a coach. He played football with St Arnaud, St Kilda and South Barwon. He coached at South Barwon from 2004-2008. Dale was the VFL senior coach at Geelong from 2009-2011. Meanwhile he was an assistant coach at Geelong from 2012-2015 and at Carlton from 2016-2021. He is currently the Head of Football at Xavier College.

Nigel played a total 160 VFL matches with the Casey Scorpions and the Collingwood VFL teams from 2000-2008. Nigel has been a broadcast host and commentator for AFL, AFLW and VFL football with Channel Seven from 2015-present.  He was a player manager with TLA Worldwide from 2004-2021. Nigel was also a commentator on ABC Sport's AFL and AFLW coverage from 2016-2018. Nigel has also worked at 1116 SEN...

Pat Kerr was selected by Carlton at pick #65 in the 2016 National Draft. He played 4 games as a key-forward for Carlton between 2017 and 2019. He is the grandson of Laurie Kerr, who also played for the Carlton Football Club.  In this episode we discuss Pat's football career with both the AFL and VFL and also the role that Pat's grandfather Laurie, played in luring Ron Barrassi to be a Senior Coach...

Brenton Sanderson played a total of 209 AFL games with three clubs: Adelaide, Collingwood and Geelong. Brenton was the 2001 Geelong Best and Fairest winner. In 2011, Brenton was appointed as the Senior Coach of the Adelaide Crows, he was their coach from 2012-2014. Brenton was the AFL National Academy Head Coach from 2015-2016. More recently, he has been an Assistant Coach (Forwards) at Collingwoo...

Jack Heverin is a well-rounded sports broadcaster who has worked with Crocmedia and SEN, as a host of sports shows including 'The Sporting Capital'. Jack was the Executive Producer of AFL Live from 2012-2016. He has commentated AFL football with SEN and more recently in the Triple M commentary team. Jack had the amazing opportunity to be able to commentate the 2020 AFL Grand Final with SEN.

Xavier Ellis is a 1x Premiership player, he played in the 2008 Grand Final. Overall Xavier played a total of 120 AFL games. He played with Hawthorn from 2006- 2013 and played a total of 86 games, including the 2008 Grand Final. He then played with West Coast from 2014-2016 and played 34 matches.

Matthew Lloyd wore the now famous #18 in the Lloyd family with his father wearing the #18 during his playing career. Lloyd played 270 AFL games kicking 926 AFL goals. He also had the following career highlights 3× Coleman Medal: 2000, 2001, 2003 12× Essendon leading goalkicker: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009 5× All-Australian team: 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 20...

Campbell Brown played 205 AFL games, he played 159 of those games at the Hawthorn Football Club and 46 games at the Gold Coast Suns. He was a 2008 Hawthorn premiership player. Campbell was known for his toughness out on the football field. He was also a 2007 All-Australian team player.

Steve Symonds is the current Senior AFLW coach at the Collingwood Football Club. He has been the AFLW coach at Collingwood from July 2019.  Steve has had 25 years of coaching experience in the women's football industry, he founded the Inaugural Women's Football Program at the Norwood Football Club in the SANFL, he lead them to two Grand Finals.

Christensen made his AFL debut with the Geelong Football Club in the second Round of the 2011 AFL season against Fremantle in Perth. He was the club's substitute for the match, he was subbed in late in the third quarter and finished the game with eight disposals, assisting Geelong to an 11-point victory. After his performance in Geelong's Round 18 match against Richmond, he gathered 26 disposals a...

Dale Tapping is currently the assistant coach at the Brisbane Lions Football Club.  Tapping is their Midfield coach specifically focusing on- Stoppages/Midfield Contest/Transition.  Prior to this role, Dale was a development coach and the senior coach of the Collingwood Football Club VFL team where he worked closely with Nathan Buckley.

In this Episode of the Footy with Fletch podcast we chat with four -time premiership player at the Hawthorn Football Club Jordan Lewis. 2014 was a great season for Jordan as he achieved the following achievements and milestones: he played his 200th AFL game in Round 7, as the Hawks defeated  St Kilda by 145 points. Jordan also won his third premiership for Hawthorn as well as earning his first eve...

Episode 12 with four time Hawthorn premiership player Gary Buckenara. Gary played 154 games with the Hawthorn Football Club. He was able to live out his childhood dream of kicking a goal to get his team into a Grand Final as a result of a costly mistake from Melbourne's Jim Stynes who controversially ran over the man on the mark giving away a 15 metre penalty resulting in Buckenara's shot for goal...

In this episode of the 'Footy with Fletch' podcast, I had the opportunity to talk to Port Adelaide youngster Xavier Duursma.  He was selected by Port Adelaide at pick number 18 in the 2018 AFL draft.  Xavier is well known for his 'bow and arrow' goal celebration.  He is currently playing for the Port Adelaide football club.

In this Episode of the Footy with Fletch podcast I talked with current AFL media personality at Channel 7 and 3AW Matthew Richardson. Richo played 282 AFL games kicking 800 AFL goals. He was a 13 time leading goal kicker winner for Richmond. Richo has also kicked the most goals at the MCG.