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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.

Former Bomber gets chance at stepping into Tippett's shoes

Rohan Connolly Kurt Tippett's move has provided an opening at Adelaide, writes Rohan Connolly.

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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Hawks find salvation in deadly duo

Rohan Connolly Deja vu can never have felt as chilling for any Hawthorn supporter than during the final quarter last night. It was happening again.

Crows by a nose on Swans

Rohan Connolly The visiting Swans will push the Crows early, but Adelaide has the better form.

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Hawks are Adelaide's last hurrah

Rohan Connolly They've had a good year, but the Crows don't have enough in their arsenal to beat Hawthorn.

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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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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Cats' back-to-back premiership hopes live on

Rohan Connolly Wounded Geelong weathers Adelaide surge, then runs away to win an entertaining battle.

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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.

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Tough day for road worriers

Rohan Connolly Things couldn't possibly get any worse for Melbourne this week. So came the popular refrain yesterday after the rapid emergence into and just as rapid decline from the spotlight of the 'charming'...