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.
Bye, bye to prospect of a longer season
Caroline Wilson More matches will mean more teams are out of finals reckoning.
AFL
Pie's radio deal waits on approval
Caroline Wilson A yet-to-be-signed media deal involving Collingwood's Dane Swan will not kick off as planned on Friday unless it has been cleared by the AFL.
AFL
Logo, mini-draft on table
Jon Pierik and Caroline Wilson In-season mini-draft, ban on top clubs poaching free agents and possible sale of AFL logo on front of player jumpers options discussed in bid to ease gap between AFL's rich and poor.
AFL
McGuire 'an amnesiac' on cap fight
Caroline Wilson GWS chairman Tony Shepherd has diagnosed Eddie McGuire with 'a bad case of amnesia'.
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.
Sydney at war with the Blues
Caroline Wilson EXCLUSIVE The bad blood between Melbourne and Sydney has become toxic.
AFL
Swans chief now turns on Geelong
Caroline Wilson Feud between Sydney and Melbourne clubs shows no signs of abating.
Caroline Wilson
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.
Demons cleared, guilty, fined
Caroline Wilson In the end it all came down to one meeting in July 2009 in an old tin shed at the Junction Oval known as ''the vault''.
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.
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
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.
AFL
Cooking the books: new charges laid
Caroline Wilson Adelaide entered into secret agreement with sponsor to divert payments to Kurt Tippett after he knocked back an offer to join Gold Coast.
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...
Query over Selwood deal
Caroline Wilson One of Geelong captain's third-party agreements becomes subject of debate.
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...
AFL
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...
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.
'We sold our soul' on Tippett deal: Reid
Caroline Wilson It did not take long for the ink to dry — or more accurately the send icon on the email to function — before Adelaide football boss John Reid knew his club had committed to a terrible thing.
