Matthew Lloyd
Matthew Lloyd
Australian Football Hall of Fame
Matthew Lloyd in 2013 was inducted as a member into the Australian Football Hall of Fame and as a Legend in the Essendon Football Club Hall of Fame.
Matthew is a highly decorated full-forward. His AFL’s honours include winning the 2000 AFL Premiership, being Essendon’s all-time leading goalkicker in the history of AFL, seventh highest goalkicker in AFL history (with 926 goals), three Coleman Medals as leading goalkicker in the league, AFL life membership, as well as winning both the Mark of the Year and Goal of the Year awards. Among his representative honours are five All-Australian selections, three times representing the Victoria State of Origin team, as well as twice representing Australia in International rules football. He has kicked over 100 goals in a season – twice. He also belongs to the small group of players whose first kick in the AFL resulted in a goal.
Off the field, Matthew co-hosted the children’s AFL show Auskick’n Around on Fox Footy Channel with Brad Johnson from the Western Bulldogs between 2003 and 2005. In 2006, Matthew had a weekly spot as a panellist on Fox Footy’s ‘White Line Fever’. Matthew quickly became recognised for his informative views on all things football – his roles included being a special comments commentator on Triple M’s football coverage as well as more regular appearances on The AFL Footy Show, as a panellist. In 2009, he appeared as a regular panellist on a new show ‘One Week at a Time’ as well as doing special comments on Network Ten and writing a regular column for The Age newspaper.
Following his retirement in 2009, Matthew has been heavily involved in the media. He signed with the Network Ten AFL team as an expert commentator for the 2010 and 2011 AFL seasons on Channel Ten and One HD (he had already provided special commentary during various matches of the 2009 AFL season for the network), until Ten Sport lost the rights at the end of the 2011 AFL season. He also worked for radio station SEN, was a co-host of The Game Plan on One HD during 2011 and continued working for The Age.
Matthew’s autobiography (co-authored with Andrew Clarke), ‘Straight Shooter’, was released in July 2011. After Network Ten lost the AFL broadcasting rights, he joined the Nine Network for 2012 to be a panellist on The Footy Show and The Sunday Footy Show. He also left SEN to join 3AW’s AFL special comments team. In 2013, he joined Footy Classified as a panellist alongside Gary Lyon, Craig Hutchison and Caroline Wilson; as well as continuing his regular roles on The Footy Show, The Sunday Footy Show and 3AW Football.