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About Caroline Wilson
About 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 is a multiple winner of Australian Football Media Association awards, including most outstanding football writer and most outstanding feature writer (2000, 2003, 2005). Wilson was also voted the AFL Players' Association's football writer of the year in 1999. Before joining The Age, she covered Wimbledon four times and worked extensively in radio. She has also covered both the Sydney and Athens Olympic Games for The Age, along with three Commonwealth Games. Wilson also appears on 3AW's pre-match discussion and Channel Nine's new Monday night AFL program.
Bruised and injured, Croad has a smile that will last a lifetime
Trent Croad lay sprawled out across his hospital bed as his anaesthetist administered several dozen acupuncture needles to his left wrist and broken left foot, swollen to the size of a football and expected to sideline him for up to four months.
Scott quietly soaks up a grand day
Don Scott attends only one AFL game a year and that is always the grand final.
Hawks swoop on the 'greatest team'
The 2008 grand final will be written in sporting history as the day the champion cracked under pressure from a relentless and youthful challenger.
10 Victorian clubs here to stay: AFL
AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou reminds all 16 clubs that the
Victorian teams subsidised the competition for years.
Cousins the likely flaw in any comeback
Ben Cousins' return to the AFL has a lot stacked against it, but the drama will roll on.
North's drive heads south
It was all looking so positive for North Melbourne. Only 16 days ago it was fourth and heading for a better-than-modest profit for season 2008.
Demons seek MCC alignment and AFL cash
The Melbourne Football Club will officially push to rejoin the
Melbourne Cricket Club, and is seeking $3 million from the AFL next
season.
Lethal walked, that's a fact
Conspiracy theories have abounded since Leigh Matthews was all-too-perfectly replaced as coach of the Brisbane Lions by Michael Voss.
Roos stays, takes swipe at Carlton
Sydney coach Paul Roos pointedly describes the praise heaped upon
the 2008 performance of teams such as Carlton as "extraordinary".
Matthews says his departure will give the Lions a 'good bounce' for next year
Leigh Matthews was sitting in his Sydney hotel room three days ago watching Geelong demolish the West Coast Eagles when it occurred to him that he would be coaching Brisbane that night for the last time.
Turning bad luck around
The Saints' one-gamer will be there to mark the end of an era while looking ahead to a life beyond football.
Deledio thrives on tough love
After dodging little daggers from the captain, Brett Deledio adds the rough to the smooth.
Bombers to don new gear
The Bombers sign a new four-year deal with adidas.
Timing key to future for Buckley, Williams
Intrigue surrounds the coaching aspirations of two former Collingwood captains.
Lies expose the hidden flaws
Heath Shaw's confused and devastated face during last Monday's misguided media presentation has stayed with this column.
Crisis a turning point for Pies
OF ALL the multitude of images which resonated from Collingwood's week of horrors, it was Heath Shaw's confused and devastated face during Monday's misguided media presentation that has stayed with me.
McGuire copping it and determined to hit back
Collingwood's president is angry, but he believes eventually he'll get even.
How Eddie's golden boys shot the president
Alan Didak was cornered into telling the truth too late to save his theatrical president Eddie McGuire.
Demons still eye Schwab for CEO
Cameron Schwab remains strongly in contention to return to the club that sacked him almost nine years ago.
Brown in demand but still Lion-hearted
After the Chris Judd success, it is tantalising to contemplate Jonathan Brown playing for a Victorian club.
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