Jake Niall
Jake Niall is a senior sports writer at The Age, specialising in AFL football. Jake joined The Age in 1998, having previously worked as a sports writer on The Sunday Age. He writes a blend of news, feature articles and a weekly column during the football season. Before joining The Sunday Age, Jake was a freelance reporter in the US and a regular contributor to The Sunday Age and The Age from Los Angeles, covering diverse areas like politics, earthquakes, celebrity trials and American sport. Jake ghost wrote the autobiography (‘Collingwood and Me’, 1991) of champion Collingwood footballer Peter Daicos. While he writes primarily about the AFL, he spends the month of January covering tennis, especially the Australian Open. In 2008, Jake won the Melbourne Press Club Quill Awards' Best Sports Story in any medium for his profile piece on David Schwarz.
Sydney closes in on Tippett deal
Jon Pierik and Jake Niall Sydney hopes reputation for getting a deal done would allow it to secure Kurt Tippett.
AFL
Adelaide checks out White
Emma Quayle and Jake Niall Sydney forward Jesse White has flown to Adelaide for a medical screening and looms as a possible cog in the Kurt Tippett trade, which should unfold in the next few days.
AFL
Spoiling the spoiler: The Swans' big task
Jake Niall Josh Gibson is always a fistful, and Sydney needs a plan.
Playing catch up
Jake Niall How do minnows such as North and Port match the AFL's well-nurtured barracudas?
'I felt 100 per cent'
Jake Niall Ben Reid is one of 11 premiership Pies out of contract but is confident the team will stick together.
Why brown and gold is the new black
Jake Niall Hawthorn has players coming back from injury and is well placed to be the 2012 premier.
Compo picks triggered
Jake Niall Western Bulldogs, Melbourne and Greater Western Sydney decide to utilise extra first-round draft picks in 2012.
Saints fan, look away now...
Jake Niall While other clubs are signing their stars to long-term contracts, St Kilda may have to sacrifice a player.
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Burgoyne yet to pass price test
Jake Niall In 2009, the Hawks acquired two mature players in order to return to the premiership mix.
