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.
Coaches cop bump rule on chin
Jesse Hogan and Rohan Connolly Coaches proving themselves more amenable than players to AFL's rationale for, and implementation of, stringent rules to dissuade high contact during bumps.
AFL
It's time to scrap the match review process
Rohan Connolly The AFL’s judicial system continues to fail its most basic test, to deliver verdicts consistent with the football crimes committed.
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.
No doubts, a young Cat comes of age
Rohan Connolly Tom Hawkins' fine 2012 has earned him a leadership role.
Dockers rewrite the script
Rohan Connolly The scoreline at quarter-time looked as expected. But the teams were the wrong way round.
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.
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.
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.
Cats may yet make history
Rohan Connolly If anyone can win the flag from sixth place, then Geelong can.
Football
Two cool Cats show the Twain meets midfield
Rohan Connolly During the past few weeks Geelong have had 'we're not done just yet' written all over them.
It's deja vu as hot Pies burn Cats
Rohan Connolly This much-touted heavyweight bout was over before it had barely begun.
Cats' back-to-back premiership hopes live on
Rohan Connolly Wounded Geelong weathers Adelaide surge, then runs away to win an entertaining battle.
Fading? Not so fast
Rohan Connolly Rivals and pundits may think otherwise, but the Cats expect to be involved at the pointy end of the season for several years.
Flat Cats on attack
Rohan Connolly IT'S not often you get to the mid-point of an AFL season without a pretty clear indication of how most teams are tracking, but then 2012 is shaping as an extraordinary sort of football year.
There's plenty of life, and fight, left in Cats
Rohan Connolly It's not often you get to the mid-point of an AFL season without a pretty clear indication of how most teams are tracking, but then 2012 is shaping as an extraordinary sort of football year.
