Caroline Wilson on Kurt Tippett - 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.

AFL

McGuire 'an amnesiac' on cap fight

Caroline Wilson GWS chairman Tony Shepherd has diagnosed Eddie McGuire with 'a bad case of amnesia'.

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.

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.

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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.

AFL

Swans chief now turns on Geelong

Caroline Wilson Feud between Sydney and Melbourne clubs shows no signs of abating.

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Caroline Wilson

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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Trigg gets off lightly for his part in scandal

Caroline Wilson The AFL at times is nothing if not an old boys' club.

Anderson resigns, seeks new challenges

Caroline Wilson, Jon Pierik, Scott Spits ADRIAN ANDERSON has resigned from one of the top jobs at the AFL after nine years. In the third executive departure from Andrew Demetriou's team since the end of the season, Anderson's decision to...

AFL

'It's time for me to do something different.' Anderson moves on from the AFL

Caroline Wilson Adrian Anderson has resigned as the AFL’s general manager of football operations after serving a nine-year term.

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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.

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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.

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...

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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.