Rohan Connolly

Hawks are Adelaide's last hurrah

Rohan Connolly They've had a good year, but the Crows don't have enough in their arsenal to beat Hawthorn.

Magpies get their reward

Rohan Connolly Collingwood can, and has, played a lot better quality football than it did last night, and will certainly need to if it is to have any chance of winning the premiership.

Rohan Connolly

Lyon-sized Dockers show finals quality

Rohan Connolly There's a parallel between Ross Lyon as coach of St Kilda and his efforts at Fremantle.

Live blog: Are you jumping off the bandwagon?

Rohan Connolly It is pretty easy to jump off the bandwagon of a qualifying final loser. Easy and almost always wrong. It is worth repeating the figures ....

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Pies and Crows look vulnerable

Rohan Connolly It is pretty easy to jump off the bandwagon of a qualifying final loser. Easy and almost always wrong.

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Dockers live by Lyon's lore

Rohan Connolly For Ross Lyon, it's about a job. And for him and his side, it's a job only partially done.

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Dockers rewrite the script

Rohan Connolly The scoreline at quarter-time looked as expected. But the teams were the wrong way round.

Crows by a nose on Swans

Rohan Connolly The visiting Swans will push the Crows early, but Adelaide has the better form.

Aussie Rules

Third time lucky for Magpies

Rohan Connolly COLLINGWOOD assistant coach Robert Harvey said yesterday the Magpies had taken plenty of confidence out of last week's return to some sort of form against Essendon.

AFL

Hawks clearly the best: Harvey

Rohan Connolly Magpies assistant coach Robert Harvey says team took confidence out of last week's win.

Live blog: History is bunk ...

Rohan Connolly History is bunk. So said Henry Ford, founder of the company which has been Geelong Football Club's major sponsor for decades now. It's a nice link.

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Cats may yet make history

Rohan Connolly If anyone can win the flag from sixth place, then Geelong can.

Roos' finals hopes may go west

Rohan Connolly North Melbourne has played to its peak when the pressure to perform was at its greatest.

Beware Geelong's charge from outside the four

Rohan Connolly The Cats are a genuine hope to pull off the impossible - win a flag from outside the top four.

Finals are about timing and it's Cats' time

Rohan Connolly This has been an even more eventful AFL season than usual, full of wild fluctuations.

Another visit to the Cats to test Swans

Rohan Connolly Swans have won kudos for having held on to one of the top two spots on the ladder since June.

AFL

Footy masters' cracking battle caught on tape

Rohan Connolly North Melbourne coach Ron Barassi stands before his players, moments before they're to run out for the 1975 grand final against Hawthorn, desperate to win the club's first VFL premiership.

AFL

Vardy earns his Cats stripes

Rohan Connolly Geelong ruckman Nathan Vardy will play his first game of AFL football for more than a year when he returns to the Cats' line-up for tomorrow's crucial final-round match against Sydney.

Rohan Connolly

Record means little against the rapidly advancing tide

Rohan Connolly MANY factors can kill an AFL coaching stint. At Carlton, for Brett Ratten, who'll take charge of the Blues for the final time against St Kilda on Sunday, it's been the convergence of several.

AFL

Cats gain Vardy, lose Varcoe

Rohan Connolly Geelong ruckman Nathan Vardy will play his first game of AFL football for more than a year-and-a-half when he returns to the Cats' line-up for Saturday's crucial final round match against Sydney.