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 receive findings
Caroline Wilson The day of reckoning is approaching for a number of senior Essendon officials.
Right thing for Hird to do is step down
Caroline Wilson In early February, as James Hird's world began to unravel, he still didn't get it. Sitting alongside his chairman and his chief executive at AFL head office, the Essendon legend, premiership captain...
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Heat may be easing on Bombers but message deserves flak
Caroline Wilson AFL boss Andrew Demetriou believes Dons in far better shape than Cronulla.
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.
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.
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Players voiced concerns
Caroline Wilson Senior Essendon players demanded assurances from coaching and medical staff before being administered controversial substances at centre of performance-enhancing drug investigation.
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Clubs prepare for a cap on interchanges
Caroline Wilson Speculation that the AFL could cap interchange rotations for the first time threatens to widen philosophical divide between football's governing body and the young men who play the game.
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The Xavier network
Caroline Wilson From grand final players to off-field powerbrokers, Xavier has the lot when it comes to AFL.
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Cotchin is Tigers' best as awards keep coming
Jon Pierik and Caroline Wilson Trent Cotchin wins a second successive Jack Dyer Medal as Richmond's best and fairest.
AFL heartened by injury figures
Caroline Wilson AFL players suffered fewer hamstring and groin injuries last season than for at least two decades.
Push by players for extra bye set to fail
Caroline Wilson AFL on collision course with players over push to reintroduce two byes next season.
