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Rookies to be a thing of the past
The AFL now looks certain to phase out rookies with all players to be part of a primary list from 2018.
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). In 2014 she won the Melbourne Press Club's Graham Perkin award as Australian journalist of the year. She also won a MPC Quill Award in 2003.
The AFL now looks certain to phase out rookies with all players to be part of a primary list from 2018.
St Kilda has added two new Irish rookies to its international stable in the club's latest step towards growing its talent base outside of the AFL draft.
Struggling club aiming for 2017 restructure faces an exodus of key assistant coaches.
The AFL has abandoned the prospect of featuring a Monday night game in round-23 following vociferous complaints from the prospective home team Adelaide and a prior commitment held by broadcaster Channel Seven.
The AFL Commission will almost certainly make a definitive call on Good Friday football this week with the long-held tradition of keeping the religious day football-free expected to be broken and a 4pm game scheduled for next season in Melbourne.
Under-fire Brisbane captain Tom Rockliff and the Lions management appear to have settled their differences after a specially-convened meeting in Melbourne on the eve of the strong win over Essendon.
Western Bulldogs boss David Stevenson has dramatically resigned from the club after barely one year in the job.
It is difficult to fault Sydney's handling of the Michael Talia arrest last weekend.
As Garry Lyon's long-time manager and friend Craig Kelly begins the highly sensitive task of managing his prime client's journey back into public life there appears to be at least one non-negotiable.
A company chaired by former AFL boss Andrew Demetriou has played a pivotal role in the hotly contested radio rights negotiations which have threatened Triple M's dominance of football broadcasting on the FM band.
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