Caroline Wilson

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.

Caroline Wilson

Power of 'family' ties Boak to Port

Caroline Wilson Moving to Port Adelaide and deciding to stay there - it's all been part of an emotional football journey for Travis Boak. And also for his mother Chicki.

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Boak to remain with Power in $1.3m deal

Travis Boak (right), seen here tackling Bulldog Tom Liberatore last season, has remained loyal to his club.

Caroline Wilson One of the season's most-debated decisions has been reached.

Tragic fall casts a pall over the game

McCarthy

Caroline Wilson John McMcCarthy's girlfriend has told Port Adelaide the young player had called her less than two hours before his death in a confused and distressed state, saying he wanted to come home and was...

McCarthy's death 'a tragic accident', club boss confirms

Caroline-Wilson-sport-dinks

Caroline Wilson John McCarthy died in a Las Vegas hotel driveway as a result of a tragic accident, Port Adelaide football boss Peter Rohde said this morning.

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Port coup

Darren Burgess.

Caroline Wilson Port Adelaide snares head fitness coach Darren Burgess from EPL club Liverpool.

Call for open season on Cats

Travis Boak

Caroline Wilson Geelong's treatment of the Port Adelaide Football Club has been condemned by rival clubs, with West Coast chief Trevor Nisbett declaring the Cats deserved to be the target of a full-scale retribution...

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Chief vows to preserve AFL culture

Gillon McLachlan

Caroline Wilson, Jared Lynch The AFL's acting chief, Gillon McLachlan, has vowed to fight any threat of a rugby league-style culture creeping into the game, following Geelong's blatant raid on Port Adelaide club champion Travis...

Cats lose face with error of judgment

Travis Boak

Caroline Wilson Geelong deserves the criticism it has received over the Travis Boak affair.