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.
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Bombers failed to run rule over Dank
Caroline Wilson Essendon employed Stephen Dank last season without reference-checking the discredited sport scientist with any of his past three football employers, including the Gold Coast Suns.
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Dons did not check Dank
Caroline Wilson Essendon employed Stephen Dank last season without reference-checking the discredited sports scientist.
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The agony before and after the ecstasy
Caroline Wilson Mitch Morton's football story, like most fairytales, has a deeper, darker side, one which he accepts will haunt him for the rest of his life.
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Clubs get their wish: one of their own at the AFL
Caroline Wilson The truth is that Andrew Demetriou needed a good announcement and he got one.
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Etihad grand final a costly move for AFL and Brisbane
Caroline Wilson AFL's decision to rob Brisbane of NAB Cup grand final a shocker on so many levels.
Cloke fine a space oddity
Caroline Wilson and Matt Murnane Collingwood key forward used car park of chief executive Gary Pert once too often.
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Power of 'family' ties Boak to Port
Caroline Wilson Moving to Port Adelaide and deciding to stay there - it's all been part of an emotional football journey for Travis Boak. And also for his mother Chicki.
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Swan's song just a noise for Magpies
Caroline Wilson Anyone who doubted that Dane Swan was a law unto himself need only to witness the past 48 hours.
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Swans chief now turns on Geelong
Caroline Wilson Feud between Sydney and Melbourne clubs shows no signs of abating.
Clubs want footy voice on AFL board
Caroline Wilson Relocation of AFL commissioner Chris Lynch to London sparks push from clubs.
Sydney at war with the Blues
Caroline Wilson EXCLUSIVE The bad blood between Melbourne and Sydney has become toxic.
AFL works on tanking in revamp
Caroline Wilson The AFL is working to outlaw the insidious practice commonly known as tanking in the recognition that it had no specific rule to cover its findings from the six-month Melbourne investigation.
AFL boss keen for a life out of the spotlight
Caroline Wilson Having consistently refused to discuss the timing of his departure from the AFL, Andrew Demetriou has revealed his strategy for life after football.
A game of both shock and awe
Caroline Wilson Off-field scandals and AFL pre-seasons have come together with toxic regularity since Andrew Demetriou joined the league at the beginning of the 21st century.
AFL players blow the whistle
Caroline Wilson Two AFL players have stepped forward and 'blown the whistle', complaining to the AFL of irregular practices at their clubs.
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Whistleblowers begin to break code of silence
Caroline Wilson TWO AFL players have stepped forward and "blown the whistle", complaining to the AFL of irregular practices at their clubs.
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Thompson, Robson the likely fall guys
Caroline Wilson Evans is holding fast to one relationship he sees as crucial to the Don's future: James Hird.
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Bomber review to examine 'irregular practices'
Caroline Wilson and Jon Pierik Essendon chairman David Evans has announced a "full external and independent review of governance and processes of the club" in the wake of the club's recent drugs crisis.
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Indigenous team to 'close gap'
Caroline Wilson A bold plan to promote indigenous football talent will see an all-Aboriginal side play in the TAC Victorian under-18 competition this year.
Tigers pick a winner
Caroline Wilson RICHMOND looks poised to secure one of the AFL's most respected player agents, Daniel Richardson, to take over the Tigers' football department on the eve of the 2013 season.
