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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.
Regard for women still plagues AFL
Despite recent appointments, the treatment of women by the AFL, its clubs and players remains an issue.
Tigers call on basketball great
Basketball legend Lindsay Gaze has been seconded by Richmond to play a key role in its search for a coach.
Brayshaw must fight harder, smarter
There's no doubting James Brayshaw's sincerity when his eyes watered and his voice momentarily cracked while attempting to describe his thoughts on North Melbourne's split with Dean Laidley.
A woman's voice joins the chorus
Kelli Underwood's historic debut comes after years of hard work.
Laidley's rift with CEO beginning of the end
Dean Laidley thanked his players after last week's game, yesterday they thanked him.
No favours for a coach on the brink
Dean Laidley is used to coaching North Melbourne through times of crisis, but surely the next month will be the toughest of his 6½-season senior AFL career.
Demons aim to raise $1m
The Melbourne Football Club is reviving its "Debt Demolition" campaign and has unofficially budgeted to raise a further $1 million from supporters over August.
One more hurdle for Skipworth
Hayden Skipworth's return to AFL started on shaky ground.
Wallace's Tigers insipid
The most telling assessment of Terry Wallace's failure at Richmond probably came in the departed coach's own highlights reel.
Moved to tiers, North muddle hurts fans
There was an uncomfortable symbolism about the shabby treatment dished out to North Melbourne fans who turned up yesterday at Etihad Stadium to watch their club lose to the Brisbane Lions.
Magpies move on Malthouse
The Collingwood board has moved to establish a coaching subcommittee that could decide the future of soon-to-be-out-of-contract Mick Malthouse.
Seven sets tone in battle for TV rights
Channel Seven indicates it wants to roll over the current $780 million agreement for another five years.
A week to forget for a sad, bitter champion
Four years ago, this column described Jason Akermanis as a "maniacal narcissist". It was at the zenith of the three-time Brisbane premiership player's sensational falling out with the Lions.
From little things big things grow
It was football that saved Michael Long two decades ago when he
walked into the Essendon Football Club as a shy and bewildered
teenager.
Johnson led Tiger revolt
Kane Johnson has emerged as a key participant in Monday's player
push to have Terry Wallace removed as coach of Richmond.
Rifts emerge between Tiger coach and some of his players
Terry Wallace may have feared he was about to be sacked, but it was never going to happen yesterday.
Pies, coach in contract talks
Collingwood has opened contract talks with Mick Malthouse with a view to renewing the most controversial coaching contract in football.
Everything old is new again as game moves back home
Looking back, most of us barely raised a whimper four years ago when the Blues said farewell to Princes Park.
AFL 'no' to MCG offering
AFL indulges in high-stakes brinkmanship by rejecting peace offer from the Melbourne Cricket Club that would be worth extra $5.6 million a year to its clubs.
League fails clubs on stadium agreements
It is more than six years ago since the AFL gathered senior journalists to a media briefing in a bid to put some positive spin on the stadium which seems to have now become its mortal enemy.
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