Caroline Wilson on AFL - Real Footy

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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Ailing Dees to put case to AFL Commission

Caroline Wilson Melbourne's bid for an AFL-funded multi-million dollar restructure comes with the club still struggling to lure an experienced football boss and uncertainty lingering over the replacement for...

Face it, Eddie is one of the AFL's untouchables

Caroline Wilson If Eddie McGuire's mindless and zoned-out media moment taught us anything then surely the obvious lesson is that some individuals in this great game remain greater than the game itself.

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AFL aims for indigenous all-stars trip to Ireland

Caroline Wilson Cautious support from clubs, cream of indigenous talent pledges to take part.

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Facelift for AFL rule team

Caroline Wilson AFL proposes overhaul of Laws of the Games Committee, with league's new football boss having detected club disenchantment with the rules process.

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We want AFL team: Kiwis

Caroline Wilson Having achieved a long-held AFL dream of hosting a premiership match outside Australia, St Kilda, the team that sealed the deal, could not quite manage the fairytale.

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AFL won't pitch in for cricket

Caroline Wilson AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou refuses to help fund cricket's proposed exit from the MCG.

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AFL players rally around call to start dobbing in drug cheats

Caroline Wilson Concerned and angry AFL players rally around the competition's call to report drug use.

AFL confident crowds will return despite low figure for pre-season final

Caroline Wilson and Jon Pierik AFL refuses to link Friday night's dismal NAB Cup turn-out with negative publicity.

Hird at risk as AFL admits Bombers at the centre of scandal

Caroline Wilson The football future of Essendon's favourite son and the man who gave up a comfortable post-playing retirement to lead his club back to glory now hangs in the balance.

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.

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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Would you want your son playing AFL footy?

Caroline Wilson Imagine yourself right now as the parent of a young Essendon footballer. Or the parent of a young Melbourne player in 2009. Or maybe your son is called Kurt Tippett.

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Clubs want footy voice on AFL board

Caroline Wilson Relocation of AFL commissioner Chris Lynch to London sparks push from clubs.

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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.

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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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Saints at odds over Milne

Caroline Wilson The decision to withdraw Stephen Milne's right to play football has driven a wedge between St Kilda, its senior players and the AFL Players Association, but the fact remains it was the right thing to...