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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.

Pies, Dons can dig deep

Rohan Connolly Already, 2013 is looking likely to be a premiership won by depth as much as class.

AFL

Dons well placed for Pie fright

Rohan Connolly Few players have featured in as important a moment in just their fourth AFL game as did Essendon's David Zaharakis in 2009.

AFL

World's best father-son

Rohan Connolly Gary Ablett seems to raise the bar just a little higher each time he plays.

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Ruthless Bombers

Rohan Connolly Two passages of play a couple of minutes apart said all that needed to be said about Melbourne and Essendon.

The shock trooper

Rohan Connolly AFL life after 30 is looking good for Nathan Lovett-Murray, even if he continues to get more attention for his life off the football field.

Bombers run out of excuses

Rohan Connolly Simply, with a few exceptions, Essendon's players lack passion and fight.

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Defeated Bombers can take heart

Rohan Connolly Missed it by that much will be the popular reaction to Essendon's nail-biting loss in Adelaide.

Sheedy's 1000

Rohan Connolly The 10 most significant games of Kevin Sheedy's 1000-game playing and coaching career in the VFL and AFL.

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.

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Ratten runs hot, Hird goes cold

Rohan Connolly Do coaches make teams or teams make coaches? It's a perennial football question, one at times that is almost impossible to answer, but one worth pondering again after two crucial and surprising...

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Bombers have sights on better midfield depth

Rohan Connolly It's no great secret Essendon needs to bolster both the quality and depth of its midfield.

AFL

Fiasco won't hurt our season, Hocking says

Rohan Connolly Essendon midfielder Heath Hocking is confident last week's travel fiasco and the cancellation of an important NAB Cup hitout with St Kilda won't leave the Bombers behind the rest of the pack in their...

Playing the rivalry card

Rohan Connolly Essendon and North Melbourne don't boast one of the AFL's highest-profile rivalries.

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Bombers bounce Roos

Rohan Connolly Only a brave pundit would have predicted result would be known only after final siren.

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Gutsy Dons graft a win

Rohan Connolly In the end, you had to call it a decent win by Essendon, getting home by 25 points after looking set to be overrun midway through the final term with only one fit player left on the bench, and Port...