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.
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Bid for level playing field
Caroline Wilson AFL bid to close the growing divide between rich and poor clubs.
Clubs to target-test players
Caroline Wilson AFL players will be drug tested more than ever before as part of a raft of reforms to the competition's illicit drugs policy, to be outlined at Thursday's conference of the 18 clubs.
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Revisiting past controversy on racial taunts
Caroline Wilson Tony Shaw's comments on racism in 1991 have haunted him down the years.
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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.
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Dons did not check Dank
Caroline Wilson Essendon employed Stephen Dank last season without reference-checking the discredited sports scientist.
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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.
Caroline Wilson
Dream team's nightmare
Caroline Wilson That the Essendon Football Club and its multimillion-dollar football department and dream team of coaches allowed its team to be hijacked by so-called sports scientists has been a massive issue for...
AFL needs to help men in trouble
Caroline Wilson Some players simply seem to be ill-suited to a lengthy holiday period.
SA, WA clubs to go it alone
Caroline Wilson West Australian and South Australian clubs losing patience in battle to field stand-alone teams.
Judd's foul play gets him 4 weeks
Caroline Wilson Chris Judd confronted at AFL headquarters by harshest and most damning judges he has faced in his career.
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...
Watters set to burst Saints' bubble
Caroline Wilson St Kilda's new coach was an admirer of the team before he arrived - and hasn't been disappointed with what he's found - but there will be changes.
AFL's cultural challenge
Caroline Wilson The culture shock many indigenous players endure may have been underestimated.
Top player agent may quit game
Caroline Wilson Alex McDonald has guided the fortunes of players ranging from Andrew Lovett to Aaron Davey.
