Brian Taylor
Brian Taylor
Profile AFL Commentator
Brian Taylor played 140 AFL games in the 1980’s scoring 527 goals. He won the Coleman Medal in 1986.
Towards the end of his playing career, Brian was approached to write a weekly column in the Sunday Herald newspaper. He kept a diary throughout the 1990 season, publishing it as Black and White: The Taylor Diaries.
On radio, Brian started out with 3UZ in 1991 before becoming was the lead commentator for the Triple M commentary team from 1997 when the station became the first FM radio station to broadcast Australian rules football matches. In 2010, he joined 3AW’s football commentary team as chief football caller, replacing Rex Hunt who had moved to Triple M to call football on Saturday afternoons. Brian called the Friday night and either the Saturday or Sunday afternoon game for 3AW, alternating with Tony Leonard subject to commitments with the Seven Network. Brian would re-join Triple M to call Sunday matches. In 2016 he also appeared on The Saturday Rub alongside James Brayshaw, Danny Frawley and Damian Barrett.
On television, Brian was an AFL commentator for the Nine Network until the station lost the broadcasting rights in 2006 to the Seven Network. He remained with the station as a panellist on The Sunday Footy Show until 2010 while also being the host of AFL Teams on Foxtel and calling the Sunday afternoon or twilight match on Fox Sports.
From the start of the 2012 season, Brian started calling Saturday night matches for the Seven Network and was contracted until the end of the 2016 season. In 2012 he also hosted Seven's pre and post-match coverage of the Grand Final with his fellow Saturday night commentators, with Bruce McAvaney and Dennis Cometti calling the match.
In 2017, Brian replaced the retiring Cometti as a commentator of Friday night and Sunday afternoon games for Seven, and Saturday afternoon games for Triple M. The same year Brian started a segment during the Channel Seven coverage called "Roaming Brian". During this live segment he roves around in the winning teams' change rooms collecting ad-lib interviews with players. Often catching them off-guard, Brian manages to get some candid, off-the-cuff comments from players, coaches, relatives, and other AFL identities, which provide some entertaining moments for viewers.