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.

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.

Roos' finals hopes may go west

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

Roos looking the goods for finals

Rohan Connolly After a thumping by Hawthorn, North Melbourne has improved by leaps and bounds.

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One team rules them all

Rohan Connolly Leigh Matthews' Lions were the equal of today's Cats.

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Tigers v Demons: no debate now

Rohan Connolly If a week is a long time in football these days, a little over a year is an eternity. And nothing will underline that better than when co-tenants Richmond and Melbourne face-off at their MCG home on...

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Bomber slow to take off but now he's flying high

Rohan Connolly So comfortable has Michael Hibberd looked at AFL level from the moment he stepped into the Essendon side three seasons ago that you'd think it had all come pretty easily to him.

Enough, just get it right

Rohan Connolly Goal umpiring decisions have been mired in controversy for far too long.

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Oh! and 2

Rohan Connolly History suggests teams that are 0-2 now can't count on September glory.

Insiders take stock on new Blues chief

Rohan Connolly Football today, like society, muses former Carlton captain Mark Maclure, is transient. 'Things move all over the place, and in football it's players and coaches.'

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Varcoe: A man for the moment

Rohan Connolly Travis Varcoe has been at the centre of many of Geelong's high points in this golden era for the Cats.

AFL coaches: the class of 2013

Compiled by Rohan Connolly and Jon Pierik Rohan Connolly and Jon Pierik take a look at the men guiding the 18 teams in the AFL fray.

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Hype all about it as big men fly at home

Rohan Connolly Melbourne footballing public lusting for the resumption of on-field hostilities.

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Watters' Saints: the team that time forgot

Rohan Connolly Why does everyone overlook St Kilda when they consider finals contenders?

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Big guns back as momentum builds

Rohan Connolly Tom Hawkins ready to throw his considerable weight behind Cats' 2013 campaign.

No doubts, a young Cat comes of age

Rohan Connolly Tom Hawkins' fine 2012 has earned him a leadership role.

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Wow, seven games on a Saturday, pass the Footy Record

Rohan Connolly Saturday was a bit of a landmark day in recent AFL football.

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Given time, tried can be made true

Rohan Connolly Recycle is the new recruiting buzz word of the AFL, writes Rohan Connolly.

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You can bank on big smiles from winner of the cup

Rohan Connolly For the corporate marketing men, nothing justifies sporting sponsorship better than those pictures of a jubilant premiership team on the dais holding a trophy named after their company, its branding...