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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

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

Hardwick assures fans Tigers ready for finals

Rohan Connolly High expectations at the start of any season go with the territory for the Richmond Football Club.

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AFL's year of triumph and ignominy

Rohan Connolly We review a year of on-field glory and off-field ignominy, and look forward to next season.

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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Dons' aim hurts Tigers

Rohan Connolly They had it won, lost it, and won it back again. That was Essendon's 19-point win over Richmond in a nutshell.

Tigers earning respect

Rohan Connolly Richmond puts on its best performance of the season, hammering Hawthorn at the MCG.

Tale of reality versus reputation

Rohan Connolly The two biggest stories of the weekend games emerged from the same match.

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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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AFL

Wasteful Tigers down Demons

Rohan Connolly Richmond have survived a week of turmoil, suspensions and injuries and their own terrible kicking to defeat a depleted Melbourne in their AFL clash at the MCG.

Hits and misses at 'G

Rohan Connolly This was one of those games best forgotten as soon as the final scores were recorded.

Nearly out, but not down

Rohan Connolly Richmond faces an uphill battle to make the finals for another season.

AFL

Tigers focus on goals not hype

Rohan Connolly Richmond knows all about carrying the weight of expectation into its now-traditional season-opener against Carlton.

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.