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.
Woman to take top job at Cats
Caroline Wilson Geelong will achieve off-field history next month when it installs the first woman club boss in the AFL.
Call for open season on Cats
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...
Cats lose face with error of judgment
Caroline Wilson Geelong deserves the criticism it has received over the Travis Boak affair.
Dons' treatment of 'Weapon' a mystery
Caroline Wilson Dean Robinson will not be the only official to leave the club when this saga ends.
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
Demons' doctor stands down
Caroline Wilson and Samantha Lane Dan Bates stands down following revelations that he had worked with controversial sports scientist Stephen Dank.
AFL
Bombers failed to run rule over Dank
Caroline Wilson Essendon employed Stephen Dank last season without reference-checking the discredited sport scientist with any of his past three football employers, including the Gold Coast Suns.
AFL
Dons did not check Dank
Caroline Wilson Essendon employed Stephen Dank last season without reference-checking the discredited sports scientist.
The stress test
Caroline Wilson All AFL coaches will deal with pressure their own way, or be dealt with.
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.
Query over Selwood deal
Caroline Wilson One of Geelong captain's third-party agreements becomes subject of debate.
Football
Costa joins push to stop Cook leaving Geelong
Caroline Wilson Former Geelong president Frank Costa has intervened in an attempt to retain the club's long-serving chief executive, Brian Cook.
AFL
Boak to remain with Power in $1.3m deal
Caroline Wilson One of the season's most-debated decisions has been reached.
Football
AFL rails at fitness as a growth industry
Caroline Wilson The bad blood between AFL boss Andrew Demetriou and football's inflationary sports science industry is still flowing and in some areas running deep.
Ablett's aspect brightens
Caroline Wilson Gary Ablett has grown in his role at Gold Coast to the great benefit of the young club.
AFL gets tough on coach poaching
Caroline Wilson The AFL has pushed ahead with its plan to impose massive fines on clubs that engage in coach poaching and will write ''integrity'' clauses into every new deal struck between clubs and their senior...
The politics over player behaviour
Caroline Wilson The Jesse Stringer case has put the issue of player penalties in the spotlight once again.
Chief vows to preserve AFL culture
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...
AFL scrutinises coach contracts
Caroline Wilson Andrew Demetriou behind move to regulate the annual coaching merry-go-round.
AFL's war with sports scientists
Caroline Wilson AFL unofficially declares war on the game's high performance managers.
