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.
Football's most significant individual milestone taken care of, it's on with the main game for North Melbourne champion Brent Harvey, his side having shored up its top eight position and all but assured of playing in their third consecutive finals series.
After a dour struggle, North Melbourne ends St Kilda's impressive late run at a finals with a 23-point win, to celebrate Harvey's milestone game.
Just four men out of nearly 12,500 to have played league football have made it past 400 games. So how do you rank the best of the longest?
Mark Thompson says he feels "betrayed" by his old club's recruitment of star midfielder Patrick Dangerfield while at the same time winding up the tenure of three flag-winning players in Steve Johnson, James Kelly and Mathew Stokes.
With six teams in the top eight all equal on 12 wins, the final finishing order is anyone's guess. But we've decided to give it a try and work out just what the final eight might look like.
Fremantle's poor performance, just how much the Bombers owe their fans, the good news story out of Geelong and more. Rohan Connolly wraps up round 18.
The Bulldogs have become very used to overcoming obstacles in season 2016. A good reason even their latest spate of injuries is unlikely to break them.
Geelong turned on a big second half to comfortably defeat Adelaide for the second time this season, ending the Crows' run of eight consecutive wins.
It took six years, spent at three different clubs, but at the age of 24, Geelong's Sam Menegola finally made his AFL debut on Saturday night, and after an interminable wait, did his best to make up for lost time.
As North Melbourne champion Brent Harvey equals Michael Tuck’s AFL games record with an amazing 426 senior appearances, we pick his five best games.
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