Caroline Wilson

Caroline Wilson has been chief football writer for The Age since 1999. She was the first woman to cover Australian Rules football on a full-time basis and the first woman to win the AFL's gold media award. She has won the AFL Players Association's football writer of the year (1999) and the AFL Media Association's most outstanding football writer and most outstanding feature writer (2000, 2003, 2005). She also won a Melbourne Press Club Quill Award in 2003.

James Hird, right, fronts the media on Tuesday. How could he not have known?

Caroline Wilson

Dream team's nightmare

Caroline Wilson That the Essendon Football Club and its multimillion-dollar football department and dream team of coaches allowed its team to be hijacked by so-called sports scientists has been a massive issue for...

Football

Chiefs break ranks on drugs

Caroline Wilson Two AFL club bosses would feel uncomfortable knowing the identity of drug offenders.

Anderson resigns, seeks new challenges

Caroline Wilson, Jon Pierik, Scott Spits ADRIAN ANDERSON has resigned from one of the top jobs at the AFL after nine years. In the third executive departure from Andrew Demetriou's team since the end of the season, Anderson's decision to...

Departure rocks unstable league

Caroline Wilson Adrian Anderson's shock departure comes at a critical time for the AFL.

AFL

'It's time for me to do something different.' Anderson moves on from the AFL

Caroline Wilson Adrian Anderson has resigned as the AFL’s general manager of football operations after serving a nine-year term.

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Trigg gets off lightly for his part in scandal

Caroline Wilson The AFL at times is nothing if not an old boys' club.

Pies must tackle bad behaviour

Caroline Wilson Collingwood should seriously consider sacking Dane Swan. If it has not already.

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AFL

Drugs collision course

Caroline Wilson The AFL clubs appear on a collision course with their players over holiday drug testing, as several club chiefs confirmed they would take on the players union over target testing of suspected illegal...

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AFL

Stop robbing rich clubs: McGuire plea

Caroline Wilson Collingwood president says plenty of ways of raising funds to help struggling teams.

AFL

Overhaul on handouts

Caroline Wilson A radical restructure of the AFL's revenue will take place in a bid to stem the growing divide between the rich and poor clubs.

AFL

Fisher on outer at Saints?

Caroline Wilson Off-field behaviour of yet another senior AFL footballer becomes a serious issue.

AFL needs to help men in trouble

Caroline Wilson Some players simply seem to be ill-suited to a lengthy holiday period.

Tippett tribunal bid rejected by AFL

Caroline Wilson Attempt to move to club of choice as a delisted free agent again thwarted by the AFL.

Tippett not free to choose

Caroline Wilson KURT TIPPETT'S bid to move to the club of his choice as a delisted free agent has again been thwarted by the AFL.

AFL

Adelaide's 'goodwill gesture' costs it draft picks 20 and 54

Caroline Wilson and Michael Gleeson Adelaide has taken the extraordinary step of giving up their first two AFL national draft picks as they brace for heavy penalties from the Kurt Tippett saga.

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AFL

Trent bucks leading trend

Caroline Wilson Decision to appoint Trent Cotchin as Richmond's next captain hit with a numerical twist.

Australian football

Tippett legal demand to be set free

Caroline Wilson THE latest legal shot in what has become something of an off-season battlefield for the AFL over the past month came from Kurt Tippett late on Monday when he pushed to be immediately delisted by...