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.
Comment
Is Collingwood on the nose?
Rohan Connolly Can a side as proven as the Pies really be dismissed as a flag chance?
AFL
Essendon stymies Pies attack
Rohan Connolly Bombers held sway in general play and on the scoreboard the entire afternoon, but that didn't necessarily make their eventual 46-point win a comfortable exercise until the final 10 minutes.
Pies, Dons can dig deep
Rohan Connolly Already, 2013 is looking likely to be a premiership won by depth as much as class.
AFL
Rule to protect players' legs could leave their heads exposed
Rohan Connolly It took just over a half of the opening game of the season for the first rules controversy.
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.
Pies as they might
Rohan Connolly In the end, you had to wonder whether Collingwood won last night's game against St Kilda, or rather, failed to lose it.
The Connolly Report
Plenty of upside for Pies
Rohan Connolly Andrew Krakouer's return promises to give the Magpies a lift.
AFL
Pies start hot, go cold
Rohan Connolly North Melbourne continues its run of form, defeating Collingwood by 30 points.
It's deja vu as hot Pies burn Cats
Rohan Connolly This much-touted heavyweight bout was over before it had barely begun.
Magpies land Tarrant bonus
Rohan Connolly It could be fourth time lucky for Chris Tarrant come the grand final.
Secret formula to clean up 'tanking'
Rohan Connolly Secret formula AFL's latest weapon in battle against perceptions of ''tanking''.
Rohan Connolly
Journey into the unknown
Rohan Connolly With another debutant team and so many new coaches, we're in for a turbulent season in 2012.
Top Pie makes great strides
Rohan Connolly A lot of hard work goes into Scott Pendlebury making football look easy.
One spark fires Magpies
Rohan Connolly Seven minutes. Six inside 50s. Five goals. That's pretty much all you needed to know about Collingwood's 21-point win over Richmond at the MCG last night.
Here we go, it's the early crow
Rohan Connolly There's something about the opening salvos of an AFL season that has both the pundits and public alike elbowing each other out of the way, desperate to make the definitive and dramatic call.
Rampant Dons set the stage for Anzac Day
Rohan Connolly Despite the tipping, the Bombers ended up doing a number on the Blues.
