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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.

Dons hand out a lesson

Rohan Connolly St Kilda has regularly found itself short of sufficient height and strength in recent times.

AFL

Oh! and 2

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

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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AFL

Veteran captains lead the way at annual bash

Rohan Connolly THERE were plenty of wide eyes at the annual captain's photo shoot and media call the other day.

In the final quarter

Rohan Connolly With their AFL careers entering the latter stages, how do football veterans prepare for yet another season?

AFL

Watters' Saints: the team that time forgot

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

Eight it great?

Rohan Connolly The scramble for the AFL finals in 2013 is shaping as a dogfight unlike anything we've seen before.

The weight

Rohan Connolly It's taken some time, but St Kilda now expects Sean Dempster to play a big role in 2013

AFL

Saints stroll to victory

Rohan Connolly St Kilda livewire Stephen Milne kicks five goals to set up a low-pressure win over GWS.

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.

Opinion

Selwood ruling misses the mark

Rohan Connolly When over-sensitivity is the order of the day, a sledgehammer is the best tool to crack a walnut.

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No punch line in big brother joke

Rohan Connolly When the brothers Selwood collided at Subiaco, the byplay which followed attracted more amusement than any concern

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A round of early eliminations?

Rohan Connolly Three rounds to go and three teams too many. That's the scenario entering round 21, with 11 teams still hoping to play in the finals.

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AFL boss oversteps mark on umps

Rohan Connolly Andrew Demetriou thinks Twitter makes people run off at the mouth.

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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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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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