This Years Talent Lineup

We’re thrilled to announce the surprise guest for the 2024 Commentators Club is none other than the awesome Ariarne 'Arnie' Titmus. 

Swimming with the expectations of a nation on her shoulders at the Paris Olympics, Australia’s golden girl of the pool delivered jaw-dropping, electrifying performances attracting global admiration.  

Adding a further four Olympic medals to her collection (now at 8) including gold medals in the 400m individual freestyle and 4 x 200m freestyle relay; and silver medals (and a PB) in the 800m freestyle and another silver in the 200m freestyle. 
Her rivalry with US superstar Katie Ledecky is stuff of legend.  We haven’t got time here to go over her stellar swimming career to date; her passion for cooking; love of the Hawks or reveal how uncomfortable those cardboard beds in the athletes village really were! 

For all that you’ll have to wait until we chat with Arnie on 26 September.

One of the AFL’s elite midfielders, with four Best and Fairest’s and a place in Port Adelaide’s inaugural AFL Premiership to his name, Kane is a great of the Power and as a result, was inducted into Port's Hall of Fame in 2018.

Kane surpassed previous games record holder Warren Tredrea in 2013, and finished his career with 300 games, retiring midway through the 2015 season.

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Co-host of the SEN 1116 breakfast radio and host of SEN Sportsday on Tuesday to Thursday afternoons, Kane also provides expert commentary for AFL National radio matches across Australia.  

Kane is a member of Nine’s Footy Classified show and the Sunday Footy Show, co-hosts The Round So Far on AFL.com and writes a weekly expert column for The Age.  With this impressive list we could think of no one more qualified to give our guests an insight into the pending 2024 AFL Grand Final than the inimitable Kane Cornes!

As a heavily tattooed skinhead, Woody feels continuously obliged to assure the judgemental that he isn’t any of those words that end in ‘ist’. Sadly, things don’t always go to plan.

However, he makes no such efforts in trying to appease those who provide regular updates about abstaining from alcohol, mental health grifters, ice bath enthusiasts, men with hair plugs or those with a pathological attachment to fads.

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'Has more than average number of laughs up his sleeve.

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We can't wait to hear what he has to say on his first appearance on the Commentators Club stage.

Commentators Club regular Mike Allen is back again as our music man, entertaining us with covers of our favourite tunes. Producing awesome music for over 20 years now, Mike was a member of the all-conquering band Things of Stone & Wood – with numerous Top 40 hits and an ARIA award.

The Commentators Club's long standing musical genius Mike Allen will again provide the musical backdrop for the day.

Mike Allen is a composer who has been producing music for commercial purposes since 1990. Since 1997 he’s released three solo records before moving onto composing for film, tv and advertising. As well as composing the scores for feature films last dance, more 4 me and vanished he also wrote the music for Dreamworks games Rise of the Guardians and the Croods.