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.

Trigg incompetence led club into abyss

Caroline Wilson Chief executive has now been charged on three counts of breaching AFL rules.

AFL

New letter emerges on Tippett

Caroline Wilson Second incriminating letter emerges in Kurt Tippett saga indicating that Crows officials attempted to cover tracks after putting in writing potentially unlawful agreement with player.

Football

Costa joins push to stop Cook leaving Geelong

Caroline Wilson Former Geelong president Frank Costa has intervened in an attempt to retain the club's long-serving chief executive, Brian Cook.

Adelaide, Tippett to face music

Caroline Wilson THE hidden deal that persuaded Kurt Tippett to remain an Adelaide Crow could halt the AFL career of club chief executive Steven Trigg and remove Tippett's right to play the game during his prime...

Tippett, Crows on draft rule charges

Caroline Wilson KURT TIPPETT and his former club Adelaide have been charged with a series of rule breaches by the AFL, and will be summoned to appear before the commission next week.

AFL

Demons and league on collision course

Caroline Wilson An explosive and costly legal stoush is looming between the AFL and the Melbourne Football Club as the league's investigation into the tanking affair continues to aggressively interview and...

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Australian football

Adelaide, Tippett to face music

Caroline Wilson Kurt Tippett and his former club charged with a series of rule breaches by the AFL and will be summoned to appear before the Commission next week.

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Demons: shock & awful

Caroline Wilson In the context of what has emerged in recent weeks in the form of evidence being put forward and corroborated by a number of witnesses, ''pathetic and disgusting'' sums up the situation at the...

AFL

Roos boss grilled over concussion

Caroline Wilson Donald McDonald faces allegations he influenced testimony of Lachlan Hansen during AFL probe.

Jobs on line: Dees warned

Caroline Wilson Senior Melbourne football official reportedly said jobs could go if team did not gain priority pick.

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'We tried to stop tanking'

Caroline Wilson Angry Melbourne footballers made a bid to overturn the tanking policy of 2009.

Current Demons unaffected by tank turmoil: Clark

Adam Cooper and Caroline Wilson Melbourne forward Mitch Clark says the tanking investigation circling his club is having no impact on the players as they prepare for the 2013 season.

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AFL

Demons unleashed over tanking

Caroline Wilson ANGRY Melbourne footballers formed a deputation and met club officials in a bid to overturn the tanking policy of 2009 only to be told the club was ''staying the course'' in order to gain early draft...

Senior Demons drove tanking

Caroline Wilson AFL uncovers secret meeting involving at least 15 Melbourne members in which coaches were reminded of the importance of forfeiting matches in order to gain early draft picks.

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AFL

Secrets from 'the vault'

Caroline Wilson It should come as no surprise to anyone who watched Melbourne play football in 2009 to learn that the club deliberately manipulated games of football.