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About Rohan Connolly

About Rohan Connolly

Rohan Connolly is a senior football writer for The Age. He analyses the AFL in both the weekday and weekend editions of the paper as well as providing a weekly video preview on realfooty.com.au. Connolly began his newspaper career on The Sun News-Pictorial in 1983.

He joined The Age in 1987 as a sports sub-editor but returned to writing shortly after, specialising in football. He joined The Sunday Age as deputy sports editor in 1990, taking over as chief football writer in 1993. Rohan has contributed to a number of books about AFL football, has worked extensively in pay TV, and is a regular part of radio station 3AW's football coverage.

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Stats point to a clash for the ages

The best offence against the best defence. It promises to be a cracker of a game.

Monday, June 29, 2009

A belting does not make the Blues a basket case

It sure hurts copping a thrashing against a bitter rival on the biggest of stages.

Monday, June 29, 2009

Blockbuster match for the ages

The AFL is prone to its share of hyperbole, but surely the St Kilda-Geelong game has to be the biggest home-and-away clash in 113 years of league football.

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Hawks' wings clipped

The Hawks are starting to resemble another high-flying side brought back to earth.

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Dons, Blues: Here they come again

Carlton said it was coming, but Essendon was waiting for it back in April, now the Blues have the chance to make the Bombers eat their words.

Monday, June 22, 2009

Collingwood's double Ds have the X factor

There are two reasons why the Pies are a good bet for two chances in September: Alan Didak and Leon Davis.

Friday, June 19, 2009

The Adams family

Adam McPhee has learnt some life lessons along with his football.

Monday, June 15, 2009

Fierce Lions show desire to crunch some numbers

The Brisbane Lions made a statement yesterday — they are a contender.

Monday, June 15, 2009

Tambling lives up to the hype

Has there been an AFL player of recent times more maligned than Richard Tambling? It's doubtful.

Saturday, June 13, 2009

The art of Ben Cousins

Ben Cousins was considered the leader of his old club. To its delight, his new club is finding out why.

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Twists and turns in store for rest of 2009

Never before in 113 years of league football have we arrived at the halfway point of the season with not one but two teams still undefeated.

Monday, June 8, 2009

Laidley and Roos can look, but what will they find?

Nathan Buckley could decide who goes to Punt Road and whether Roos' coach stays.

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Roos give fright but Saints march home

Glance at final score and you'll read yet another routine putting down of an inferior opponent. Which, ultimately, St Kilda's 46-point defeat of North Melbourne was.

Saturday, June 6, 2009

Drawing out straight Lyon

There's no great mystery, says Ross Lyon, about St Kilda's rise from just another team to a heavyweight, still unbeaten nearly halfway through the season.

Monday, June 1, 2009

Wallace sadly pays price for Tigers' failure

Dockers' coach wouldn't begrudge his opposite number in the Richmond box a rare post-game smile in a year from hell.

Monday, June 1, 2009

Close shave brings lethal best out of Geelong

Saints hard-pressed to match such a combination of strength and skill.

Monday, May 25, 2009

Cats, Saints shaken but not stirred enough to lose

Scares for St Kilda and Geelong won't reveal too much to the chasing pack.

Monday, May 25, 2009

Port pretenders exposed — again

The last three quarters at the SCG might well be three of the most useless terms of football Port Adelaide has ever played.

Saturday, May 23, 2009

Collingwood's downhill slide

It was exactly a year ago that Collingwood pulled off one of the most emphatic and talked about victories of recent AFL history.

Monday, May 18, 2009

Tigers of old, and new, silence critics

Had Warren Tredrea not soared twice spectacularly at either end of the ground in the final minute, we'd be talking this morning about a win for the ages.