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.
It's a mug's game, gazing into the crystal football, but I'm shrugging off last year's pathetic prognostications to have another go at predicting who'll finish where on the AFL ladder.
A chastened Joel Selwood believes he has learned from the incident which cost his club a lucrative sponsorship with the Transport Accident Commission.
Geelong honoured two champions of the past in elevating them to official legend status on Wednesday night. And the grandson of one made a surprise appearance to be there for the occasion.
Geelong Brownlow medallist Patrick Dangerfield has stepped up to join Harry Taylor as joint vice-captains to Joel Selwood as the Cats increase their leadership group from six to eight.
Former Fremantle and now Gold Coast midfielder Michael Barlow has spoken candidly of his hurt at being dumped by his old club.
There are no trophies in the AFL pre-season these days, but that doesn't mean we haven't learnt a bit over the past month.
Gold Coast champion in ominous touch on his return to the field for his first game in eight months. And he says he'll be even sharper by round one.
The Western Bulldogs had good cause for concern late in the second term at Metricon Stadium on Thursday night.
New AFL football operations boss Simon Lethlean should tell everyone to take a chill pill. Or at least back up their hysteria with some solid arguments. Because that doesn't seem to be happening very much.
Football and music. It’s a winning combination. Or so hope Collingwood, who are now going about their pre-season training routines with some heavy-duty beats behind them.
Search pagination
Save articles for later.
Subscribe for unlimited access to news. Login to save articles.
Return to the homepage by clicking on the site logo.