Former AFL player turned media personality Nathan Brown had a moment to forget live on air on Sunday morning.
The host of the Sunday Footy Show was left red-faced after attempting to dissect vision from the Port Adelaide and Richmond contest.
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The former Western Bulldogs and Richmond player was clearly attempting to put a Richmond forward under the spotlight.
“I’d be shocked if they don’t show him vision of him needing to get on his bike and get away from Aliir Aliir,” Brown said.
But then as he turned to the big screen, the footage that began to roll was nothing but Aliir highlights.
Brown attempted to dig up.
“This is Aliir just doing amazing things, really good things,” he said.
“One mark after another and just dominating the game. Clearly the best man on the ground.
“We’ll just go through this vision … this is not quite the vision that I had thought of. Aliir goes back and takes another mark … but it is the wrong vision so I’ll pull it up there.”
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Brown then attempted to throw to what he was really hoping to discuss which was Richmond’s Jonty Faull.
But in brutal fashion the screen remained stationary with Brown left all on his own as his fellow panellists were left in stitches.
Tony Jones wasn’t going to let him off the hook easily.
“What’s your point,” Jones bluntly asked.
Brown said: “Without the vision there’s no point.”
Jones then put Brown rightfully in his place as the host of a segment titled Media-ocre where he calls out media personnel across the AFL landscape for minute slip-ups.
“This is the issue when you have a segment where you absolutely target everybody else, and then one day it’s going to come back to bite you on the arse,’’ Jones said.
“The Jay Clark’s, the Kane Cornes’ and the Hutchy’s of this world are all going to be lining up for you.”
Cornes gleefully was one watching on and the former panellist on the Sunday Footy Show leapt at the opportunity to get one back over Brown.
“He hasn’t watched the game, he hasn’t watched the vision, he hasn’t sat down to put it together,’’ Cornes said on SEN breakfast on Monday.
“I reckon he’s looked at the stats, said hey have a look at Aliir a few intercept highlights. Has not proofed the vision before he’s got up there.
“I know how it works and he’s tried to wing it and it’s one of the more awkward things I’ve heard this year.
“When you sit there every week and you mock the entire industry for any slip of the tongue or any slight mistake and you have your AI man who sits in a cave and looks like he hasn’t been outside for six months putting words in and cutting it up for you and then you get a script written for you and all you do is read the script written for you and you put that rubbish out there, I think you better laugh.”
While we doubt he’ll throw himself under the bus during next weekend’s Media-Ocre segment, Brown may well have just sewn up the crown for 2026 with the biggest on air blunder.
