Former Adelaide Crows captain joins Nine’s 2025 AFL commentary line-up
Former Adelaide Crows captain Rory Sloane has joined Nine ahead of the 2025 AFL season, as an expert commentator.
Described as one of the game’s most widely-admired and respected leaders, Sloane played 16 seasons of AFL, including 255 games for the Crows, before his retirement in 2024.
He is making the jump to broadcast, joining the panels of Nine’s AFL Sunday Footy Show and Footy Classified, as well as agreeing to weekly contributions to 9News Adelaide and 3AW Football.
“It’s a great opportunity and I’m incredibly excited to join the team, growing up as a kid my whole Sunday was centred around the Wide World of Sports, so to now be joining them is quite an honour and the realisation of a dream,” Sloane said.
Rory Sloane retired from AFL last year. Source: Nine
“I’m really keen to bring my personality, thoughts and views on all things footy. Throughout my playing career I’ve spent a lot of time analysing the game, coaching the midfield and identifying where the trends and edges over the opposition are. I want to share those with the audience and some views that they may not have had previously.
“With so much media experience within the Nine Footy team, I’m sure I’ll learn a lot from them while bringing the average age of the Footy Show down at the same time.”
Nine’s director of sport, Brent Williams, said Sloane has always led by example, and hopes he brings that energy to the network.
“As a player, Rory Sloane always led by example. His courage and fearless leadership drew respect and admiration from all AFL fans, no matter who you barracked for. We are thrilled to be welcoming the Adelaide Crows great into the Wide World of Sports family and look forward to his contribution across all of our platforms,” he said.
Director of 9News Adelaide, Jeremy Pudney, added: “Rory Sloane was a champion player and one of the things that made him a great of the Adelaide Football Club, was his understanding of the game.
“We are thrilled that his insight and knowledge will now be shared with 9News Adelaide’s audience and that Rory will be a part of our already outstanding weekly AFL coverage.”
The 2025 AFL season kicks off in March.
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Lauren McNamara was the associate editor at Mumbrella. She joined in November 2022 as editorial assistant, after completing a Bachelor of Communications (Journalism) at UTS. She left Mumbrella in August 2025.
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