Rohan Connolly

Rohan Connolly, a senior football writer for The Age and radio broadcaster with sports radio station 1116 SEN, has been covering the game since 1983. A multi-AFL Media Association award-winner known for his passion and love of the game, he analyses the AFL for the newspaper and contributes a blog and weekly video, "Footy Fix", for The Age's football website, Real Footy.

The Wrap

Rohan Connolly Essendon needs the bye after almost snatching a win as Carlton faces a daunting next few rounds.

Football

Wayward Dons blow it

Rohan Connolly Sydney's thrilling four-point win over Essendon last night threw up all sorts of bizarre numbers. The bottom line, though, was that once again these two teams served up a blinder.

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Opposites are drawn together

Rohan Connolly Essendon and Sydney have been serving up quality games of football for a long time. And there's no reason to think tonight's clash at Etihad Stadium will see any departure from the usual script.

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Flat Cats on attack

Rohan Connolly IT'S not often you get to the mid-point of an AFL season without a pretty clear indication of how most teams are tracking, but then 2012 is shaping as an extraordinary sort of football year.

There's plenty of life, and fight, left in Cats

Rohan Connolly It's not often you get to the mid-point of an AFL season without a pretty clear indication of how most teams are tracking, but then 2012 is shaping as an extraordinary sort of football year.

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Carlton's rich legacy lives on in a number

Rohan Connolly In the welter of history that surrounds football, Bret Thornton's imminent equalling of the record for games played in the Carlton No. 32 guernsey would appear relatively small beans.

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Live blog: Round seven rule out the window?

Rohan Connolly Three weeks ago, in my Monday column for the Age, I outlined the reliability of the ''round seven rule'', and came up with a final ladder.

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AFL

Surprise results level out top of ladder

Rohan Connolly On paper, round 10 shaped up as one of the most boring weekends of this season.

Connolly Report

Make-or-break month for Ratten

Rohan Connolly Three weeks ago, this column outlined the reliability of the 'round seven rule', and came up with a final ladder.

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AFL

The Wrap

Rohan Connolly A look back at the performances of all the teams in Round 10 of the AFL season.

The ultimate triumph

Rohan Connolly There has been, and will be far, far better games of football this season than Melbourne's six-point win over Essendon last night.

Hawks feeling right at home

Rohan Connolly It says enough about how much AFL football has broadened its horizons over the past couple of decades that today we get our first 'Tasmanian derby' without the competition having actually ever...