Rohan Connolly on St Kilda

Live blog: St Kilda's body blow

Rohan Connolly St Kilda met its biggest challenge of 2010 in round three when Nick Riewoldt went down. This season it came a week earlier, the circumstances of the shock to the system eerily similar.

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Former Bomber brings aggressive defence to St Kilda's attack

Rohan Connolly After 52 hard-earned games with Essendon, Peter Berbakov is fi nally getting his reward.

St Kilda's taller attack in good Nick early

Peter Hanlon and Rohan Connolly St Kilda's shift to a taller forward-line structure geared towards spreading its aerial threat received a tentative tick from coach Ross Lyon last night.

St Kilda in top shape despite rape case furore: Lyon

Rohan Connolly St Kilda coach Ross Lyon remains confident the controversy this week surrounding a 2004 police investigation into an allegation of rape against Stephen Milne has not affected his side's preparation.

Draw no joke for Magpies

Rohan Connolly Perennial critics will have to sing a song other than the usual ''Collingwood has it easy''.

Raining supreme

Rohan Connolly Mudlarks could rule the roost on a soggy Saturday.

Rolling with the punches

Rohan Connolly After 28 years and 19 finals campaigns, Mick Malthouse comes to the end of the road today.

Era's best, and not done yet

Rohan Connolly Cats' win-loss record is a phenomenon that's going to take some topping.

Greatest rivals of the era lock horns in an epic showdown

Rohan Connolly On Saturday we will know whether the Pies or Cats have made most of the past five years.

Live blog: rule of thumb rules again

Rohan Connolly There are not too many fail-safe indicators of how an AFL season is going to unfold, but what we like to call the seven-game cut-off is surely as close as we've had.

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