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.
A last-ditch attempt to save Justin Leppitsch from the axe at Brisbane has emerged in recent days after a robust board meeting on Tuesday which saw powerbroker Leigh Matthews insist upon adjourning the final decision until next week.
Hawthorn captain Luke Hodge has taken a major pay cut and will probably relinquish the club captaincy he has held for six years in his call to play on in 2017.
North Melbourne's bombshell decision to forcibly retire Brent Harvey via press release presents as one of the game's more clinical and cold-hearted manoeuvres of recent years even allowing for the timing, coach Brad Scott's "team first" mantra and the calibre of players who were delisted alongside him.
With the football media industry heading towards one of its more intriguing post-season trade periods, the role of influential player manager Craig Kelly looks pivotal as he sets about a long list of sensitive negotiations.
Gillon McLachlan has withdrawn from this year's Carbine Club grand final week lunch after the club failed to meet an AFL-imposed deadline to introduce women into its membership ranks.
The fallout from the Brisbane Lions' latest annus horribilis will not only end the senior coaching career of Justin Leppitsch but is also expected to see the resignation of the club's three-time premiership coach and powerbroker Leigh Matthews.
The Western Bulldogs' strange decision to publicly eject assistant coach Brett Montgomery before the end of the season has left Montgomery in limbo and cast doubt over the so-called August 1 deadline put in place to create transparency between clubs and assistant coaches.
The AFL will allocate significant funding from its forthcoming $2.5 billion broadcast deal towards a university-style academy for its emerging executives.
This is not a happy time for the Richmond Football Club. Every leader at Tigerland is under pressure as the team moves into the glare of the headlights against Collingwood on Friday night at the MCG.
A prominent group of disgruntled Richmond supporters are planning a bloodless coup, targeting at least five long-serving Tiger board members, including president Peggy O'Neal, in their bid to reshape the club's board and future football direction.
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