Andrew Maher

Andrew Maher
Maher hosting a Network 7 pre-game show ahead of the inaugural AFL Women's match in February 2017
Born	(1964-07-16) 16 July 1964 (age 52) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Nationality	Australian
Occupation	television and radio personality
Years active	1996-present

Andrew 'Andy' Maher (born 16 July 1964) is an Australian journalist and television sports presenter for Network Ten and Melbourne sport radio station 1116 SEN. He is best known for covering both Australian rules football and the Big Bash League for the Ten television network, as well as hosting AFL review program Before the Game.

Maher was a boundary rider for the 2004, 2007, 2009 & 2011 AFL Grand Finals for Network Ten.

Maher hosted The Fifth Quarter (post-match show, following Saturday Night AFL), between 2004 & 2007 (with Michael Christian) & 2009 and 2011 with rotating expert commentators Malcolm Blight, Matthew Lloyd & Luke Darcy.

Maher began working for weekly football newspaper 'Inside Football' as a staff writer. He progressed to be the paper's assistant editor. He then moved on to The Sunday Age, where he worked as Football Editor in the late 1990s.

In 1996, he joined television production company Vuecast (now AFL Films) after it landed the contract to supply content for the Pay TV operator 'Sports AFL' as part of the Optus Vision network. As part of its Pay TV coverage of AFL football, Andrew mixed duties as host of 'One on One', the producer of its Monday night show, Football Feedback, and as the station's boundary rider on its exclusive match-day coverage. Joining Channel 7 in 2001, he produced the highly acclaimed "Talking Footy" while sharing boundary line duties on Channel 7's football coverage.