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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.

No tanks, but a flogging for the Demons

Jake Niall The question will be asked again in the coming days of why the Demons are so dismal.

Up to eight new Demons for opening round

Jake Niall Melbourne's massive turnover will see the Demons field a radically revamped team for round one.

Schwab set to stay on with Demons

Jake Niall Melbourne is set to confirm the reappointment of chief executive Cameron Schwab at the club's board meeting on Monday night.

Football

Demons in purgatory

Jake Niall Melbourne takes the radical step of putting contract discussions with 11 players on hold until mid-October, as the club delays decisions on players' futures until it has entered the free agency and...

Watts moving forward in Demons reshuffle

Jake Niall Melbourne coach Mark Neeld says he intends to play the talented youngster forward.

Demons' recruiters beaten by the press

Jake Niall On the weekend, Melbourne was 108 points adrift of a powerful Eagles team. In 2008, the margin was only one game.

AFL

Dogs, Demons in hunt for Cloke

Jake Niall Melbourne and the Bulldogs among the clubs to have expressed interest in the key forward.

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Cotchin, Vickery back for Tigers

Jake Niall Richmond has confirmed that skipper Trent Cotchin should return to the side for Sunday's game against Melbourne.

AFL

Victorian clubs eye off Suns midfielder Prestia

Jake Niall Gold Coast seeking to retain one of its most established young midfielders, Dion Prestia, who is coming out of contract and is on the radar of some Victorian clubs.

AFL

Why the Saints need Dal Santo

Jake Niall Nick Dal Santo has always been a player whom opposition clubs watched closely.

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EXCLUSIVE

Essendon find bill for banned drug

Nick McKenzie, Richard Baker and Jake Niall Essendon Football Club has discovered in its records an invoice for the banned performance-enhancing supplement Hexarelin.

Dees coach asks for patience during second rebuild

Jake Niall and Rohan Connolly Mark Neeld pledges to keep turning players over until he finds those who are ''up for the fight''.

Sacked, with six months of cash

Jake Niall Cameron Schwab will receive a six-month payout from his three-year contract.

Melbourne will accept help - from a Demon

Jake Niall Prominent former Melbourne forward David Schwarz has arranged a Thursday meeting with Demons’ president Don McLardy and is offering to lend assistance to the beleaguered club.