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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.

AFL

Half a season produces team brim full of talent

Rohan Connolly Rohan Connolly selects his All-Australian team at the half-way mark of 2013.

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Is Collingwood on the nose?

Rohan Connolly Can a side as proven as the Pies really be dismissed as a flag chance?

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AFL

Ball back in business for Pies, but Fasolo's season is over

Rohan Connolly While one door closes for Collingwood, another opens. Smart small forward Alex Fasolo's season is over, but that blow will be offset at least a little this week by the return of premiership onballer...

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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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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.

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Unflappable Swan on song to claim gong

Rohan Connolly Dane Swan's prowess as an AFL player seemed to sneak up on much of the football world.

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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.

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.