Seven hints at new role for Adam Cooney after Armchair Experts show axing
Adam Cooney announced the axing of his AFL talk show, Armchair Experts, on air this week, but according to Seven’s director of sport, that doesn’t necessary mean the show’s popular hosts won’t be seen on the network next year.
The Brownlow winner revealed that Channel 7 had pulled the plug on Armchair Experts on Tuesday morning on his SEN Breakfast radio show, lightheartedly blaming SEN chief Craig Hutchison, who led a massive defection from Nine to Seven, causing the show’s axing.
“I’m just a victim of some of my colleagues here coming in and taking the cash,” he said. “Hutchy puts a little bit of tucker on my table, but then he’s taken a bit off.”
Nine’s long-standing Footy Classified team — Kane Cornes, Nick Riewoldt, Caroline Wilson and Hutchison, move across to Seven in 2025, with Hutchison’s Rainmaker company tasked with producing a number of AFL shows for the network, as part of its expanded AFL digital rights coverage.
