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rohanconnolly65.bsky.social
I'm an Australian journalist talking/writing/broadcasting/posting about sport (particularly AFL football), music, politics and culture. You'll find my stuff at Footyology, ESPN, Australian Community Media and on 3AW.
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Your best tipping and form guide is with FOOTYOLOGY and Ronny Lerner’s “Previews With Punch”, the complete lowdown on who will win and why in Round 13 of the 2025 AFL season. #footyology

On the FOOTYOLOGY PODCAST for @espnausnz.bsky.social, RoCo & Rocket discuss if Brisbane's narrow wins are actually masking some issues. PLUS big changes at the AFL, home games a hard sell and FULL previews of all the Round 13 action! #footyology FULL EP: bit.ly/43ZAX7m

The latest FOOTYOLOGY PODCAST for @espnausnz.bsky.social out now! RoCo & Rocket talk the big changes at the top of the AFL tree & selling home games, worth it or not? PLUS forensic previews of all the games in AFL Round 13. It's the footy flavour that lasts and lasts! #footyology

Here's my latest for Australian Community Media...

Really hard to believe it's already 2 years ago today we lost our mum, Jo Connolly. She was a force of nature, 4 kids by 28, a Spanish degree in her 40s, led tours to Latin America & China, a passionate advocate for social justice. She loved life & we loved her for it. RIP Mum.❤️

I knew there'd be some function for which social media was perfectly equipped. Turns out it's grammar, specifically the teaching of the rule about comparative and superlative. And here it is... Threads = Dumb. X = Dumber. Facebook = Dumbest.

Melbourne skyline as seen from Church St bridge last night 5.30pm. Officially winter, but beautiful mild evening. Love this town. ❤️#melbourne

Can a team's stars all play so well it offers a false read on a side's capabilities as a whole? On FOOTYOLOGY, Rohan Connolly asks the question about the beleaguered Sydney Swans. #footyology

Can a team's stars all play so well it offers a false read on a side's capabilities as a whole? On FOOTYOLOGY, Rohan Connolly asks the question about the beleaguered Sydney Swans. #footyology

BREAKING: Footy commentator has few days off. More details as they come to hand...

Trump always chickens out. Thus began the serving of a smorgasbord of ridicule for the president, writes Warwick McFadyen in the 'Society' section of Footyology. #footyology #TacoTrump

After another dismal performance in Alice Springs, Ronny Lerner writes on FOOTYOLOGY that the time has come for Melbourne to start questioning the wisdom of selling a home game every year to the red centre. #footyology

Really looking forward to these News Corp grifters trying to come up with 3 more years of confected culture war outrage for an audience literally dying off & not being replaced because the rest of the world has moved on from this childish crap. Games up guys, you lost.😂🤡

I'm sure Tom Harley would be great for the AFL, but I'm sorry, Caro, I could not give a continental what friggin' school he went to and whether Gill McLachlan went there. This Melbourne upper-class obsession with the schools people went to 30 years ago is so bloody tedious.🙄

Wow that was match-saving courage from Andy Brayshaw before and a match-winning tackle from Shai Bolton! Amazing efforts! Terrific win for Freo! #AFLSunsFreo

Well Matt, first you have to rub some dirt on your face…

Here’s my latest for @espnausnz.bsky.social

Brisbane steadied when needed, but in the end that was a bloody good effort by a badly-depleted Essendon side. Still short of enough quality, but Caddy, Kako, Roberts, Clarke, Johnson ... draft kids are really giving the side a boost. More power to Matt Rosa. #afllionsdons

Very good operator for AFL Media is Riley Beveridge, but I do want to know why Adam Goodes got criticised for throwing an imaginary spear while he got off scott free for shooting imaginary guns?😂

A leftist anarcho-syndicalist commune.

Your best tipping and form guide is with FOOTYOLOGY and Ronny Lerner’s “Previews With Punch”, the complete lowdown on who will win and why in Round 12 of the 2025 AFL season. #footyology

Essendon went some way to alleviating the unavailability of multiple tall players by using all four of its selections in the AFL 2025 mid-season draft. On FOOTYOLOGY, Ronny Lerner wraps up how all clubs' picks panned out. #footyology

Here's my latest for Australian Community Media...

On the FOOTYOLOGY PODCAST for @espnausnz.bsky.social, Rodney Eade says Hawthorn's rivals have worked them out and change is needed. PLUS Alex Pearce's reprieve, the mid-season draft, Dees back, Blues in strife and previews of all games in AFL Round 12. FULL EPISODE: bit.ly/4kCGG8C

On the latest, FOOTYOLOGY PODCAST for @espnausnz.bsky.social, RoCo and Rocket look at Alex Pearce's tribunal win, Melbourne's resurgence & Hawthorn's slump. Plus previews of all the AFL Round 12 action. The bye rounds are on, but we NEVER rest!👊#footyology

Every time

Vault: @rohanconnolly65.bsky.social is taking Essendon's 1996 Prelim Final loss after the siren, well. #AFL

Another cult favourite of mine from the Boston scene late '70s early '80s. Ahead of their time.

Look, I probably won't be around to see it, but jeez it will be great when those people wringing every dollar they can out of AFL football for themselves finally decide they're rich enough & bugger off and give the rest of us our game back! It's just an orgy of self-interest now.

On FOOTYOLOGY, Carlton’s backline and midfield are solid, says Rohan Connolly, but its once potent forward set-up may well prove the fatal flaw in the Blues' finals plans. #footyology

Probably appropriate, really, isn't it? The Liberal Party today is populated by so many shallow, entitled, out-of-touch wackos that you know you're not going to hear any sort of decent soul-searching anyway. They're completely incapable of it (see Jane Hume today, apparently WE got it wrong!) 😂

Another favourite of mine, 'cultish' & quirky Shudder To Think. Still play their stuff a lot, still love this track ...

Revisiting my old Fugazi catalogue today, hadn't played them for ages. Still love it all. This one always a favourite....

Hopefully the recount will find the missing 'd' in the electorate's name. (Jeez the HS having a great week for literals!🤣)

Congrats, Tim. This eight-part post of yours whingeing about whether you might have to wait another five seconds to claim your much-sought electoral spoils is actually longer, more detailed & makes more sense than any policy the Liberal Party rolled out for the election.

Port Adelaide's controversial coaching handover is having a detrimental impact on the team, writes Ronny Lerner on FOOTYOLOGY. He says the club should install Josh Carr in the senior role as soon as possible. #footyology

Incidentally, the worst thing on Twitter these days isn't really even the hate or bigotry, it's just the utter infantile stupidity of so much of it. Then you hear or read something Musk has said and you understand how it came to be like that. 🤪🤡💩

Oh my goodness @rohanconnolly65.bsky.social put it as his profile pic

Just another day on Twitter...

UPDATE: It's 19 hours since I originally posted this. Yep, still reads "on mass". Hey, @theheraldsun.bsky.social, anyone home??? 🤣🤪🤡💩

What's genuinely funny, Tim, is your unabashed glee at your own good fortune when the party you represent has just suffered catastrophic defeat and is in complete tatters. It's crystal clear you don't actually give a stuff about them. It's all about you! No wonder you fit in!😂

One of my favourite ever comedy sketches.