Emma Quayle
Emma Quayle joined The Age as a cadet journalist in 1999 and has been covering football since 2001. She has won awards from the Australian Football Media Association and AFL Players Association for her feature writing, and specialised for many years in covering junior football and the AFL draft. Emma's two books - The Draft and Nine Lives (the story of former Essendon wingman Adam Ramanauskas' battle with cancer) - were published in 2008 and 2010.
AFL
Flag and I'm done: Cotchin
Emma Quayle A Richmond premiership in the next few years would prompt Trent Cotchin to consider retirement, even if only in his mid-20s.
Swans offer Tippett $3.5m, 4-year deal
Emma Quayle Swans also offer Crow a conditional two-year extension for 2017 and 2018.
Emma Quayle
Hawks and Swans: master tradesmen
Emma Quayle It takes time to piece together a premiership side. It takes even more to keep it at the top.
Bombers' drive eclipses Swans
Emma Quayle Bombers notch their first win of an almost invisible pre-season.
Swan on target with knee injury
Emma Quayle Adam Goodes expects his return from a knee injury to speed up in the next few weeks.
The Tippett saga: how it went wrong for Crows
Emma Quayle Almost two years after Adelaide talked Kurt Tippett into staying, the web began to unravel.
Bitter Tippett pays the price
Emma Quayle Kurt Tippett's demeanour at Friday's hearing of his draft and salary cap breaches costs him $25,000.
AFL
Tippett nominates for pre-season draft
Emma Quayle The AFL has allowed Kurt Tippett to remove himself from Adelaide's list and nominate for the pre-season draft with set financial terms.
Tippett defiant as Crows cop it sweet
Emma Quayle and Jake Niall Kurt Tippett remains determined to clear his name at Friday's AFL Commission hearing.
The 2012 AFL national draft
Emma Quayle How the opening round of the 2012 national draft may pan out.
Ex-Bomber Prismall trains with Port Adelaide
Emma Quayle Port Adelaide has emerged as a potential new home for delisted Essendon player Brent Prismall, who has joined the club for pre-season training.
Crows' tamper affair
Emma Quayle Adelaide has confessed to the AFL that it forged a secret arrangement to send Kurt Tippett to the club of his choice when it last re-signed him, a deal that could amount to draft tampering and see...
Emma Quayle's club-by-club guide to the 2012 national draft
Emma Quayle All that you need to know about the clubs and the players up for grabs in the draft.
Second Crow faces probe
Emma Quayle Club under investigation for third-party payments made to captain Nathan van Berlo outside salary cap.
AFL
Crows' 'tamper' affair
Emma Quayle Adelaide chairman says the Crows board confessed to the AFL 'because it was the right thing to do'.
New twist in Tippett probe
Emma Quayle The AFL investigation into alleged draft tampering by Adelaide has been broadened to include accusations of salary cap cheating.
AFL
AFL targets Crows' 'secret cash' pledge to Tippett
Emma Quayle ADELAIDE is believed to have guaranteed Kurt Tippett $200,000 outside his contract and suggested the arrangement be kept secret from the league.
Crows, Tippett caught in $200,000 rort
Emma Quayle Adelaide believed to have guaranteed Kurt Tippett $200,000 outside of his contract and suggested arrangement be kept secret.
Crows face up to possible draft ban
Emma Quayle Adelaide braces for exclusion from national draft pending probe into secret Tippett deal.
