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.
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Power have the glory, and the midfield
Rohan Connolly Port Adelaide is rapidly turning into the feel-good story of 2013.
AFL
At last, a chance for shunned kid to show class
Rohan Connolly Seldom if ever will an AFL club have been as relieved to see the start of a season as Essendon when the Bombers kick off 2013 against Adelaide at AAMI Stadium on Friday night.
AFL
Bombers relish chance to play
Rohan Connolly Seldom if ever will an AFL club have been as relieved to see the start of a season as Essendon.
AFL
Measuring up the midfield
Rohan Connolly The jury is still out on whether quality or quantity is the key to victory.
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.
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.
Sorry Jack, but three aces trumped you
Rohan Connolly It goes without saying that you can't please everyone when picking an All-Australian team, but generally you'll find reasonable consensus about at least 75 per cent of those selected.
Pies pair need to ruffle Eagles
Rohan Connolly Collingwood has to win tonight to avoid being overtaken by West Coast.
Flag hopes: necks on line
Rohan Connolly A battle within a battle looms this week for the teams in the top eight.
Roos' finals hopes may go west
Rohan Connolly North Melbourne has played to its peak when the pressure to perform was at its greatest.
Eagles still need to prove themselves
Rohan Connolly You won't find too many Melbourne pundits giving West Coast much of a flag chance.
The year of playing surprisingly
Rohan Connolly It stands to reason that a mid-year All-Australian team would feature a few unlikely names.
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Journey into the unknown
Rohan Connolly With another debutant team and so many new coaches, we're in for a turbulent season in 2012.
Bombers pop the cork
Rohan Connolly Champagne football. It's a throwaway line often used as much with irony as a straight face.
