Rohan Connolly is an Australian journalist specialising in Australian rules football

Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

 writing for The Age

The Age

The Age is a daily broadsheet newspaper, which has been published in Melbourne, Australia since 1854. Owned and published by Fairfax Media, The Age primarily serves Victoria, but is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and...

newspaper in Melbourne. Connolly began his media career writing for The Sun News-Pictorial

The Sun News-Pictorial

The Sun News-Pictorial, commonly known as The Sun, was a morning daily tabloid newspaper in Melbourne, Australia established in 1922 and closed in 1990.It was part of The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd stable of Melbourne newspapers...

in 1983 before moving to The Age in 1987, where he has been ever since. Connolly also appears on 3AW

3AW

3AW is a talkback radio station in Melbourne, Australia on 693 kHz AM. It began transmission on 22 February 1932 as Melbourne's fifth commercial radio station.-History:...

's AFL

Australian Football League

The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...

 coverage as a boundary rider

Boundary rider

A boundary rider is a term used in the Australian Football League as well as other field sports to denote a commentator who works from the sidelines of the field or 'boundary'...

 and in other on-air roles with the radio station. In 2008 he won the AFL Media Award for the Most Outstanding Feature Writer. Annually between 2002 and 2005 he co-authored with Jim Main

Jim Main

Jim Main is a sports journalist from Australia. He is known especially for his coverage of Australian rules football.He studied law at the University of Melbourne and later graduated from La Trobe University with a bachelor of arts degree....

the updated version of the reference book More than a century of AFL grand finals