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 Brisbane Lions' search for a new director of football has moved to a short list of three with Adelaide's football boss David Noble heading the list but Neil Balme and Geoff Walsh also emerging as strong candidates.
This must be an uncomfortable time for Damien Hardwick.
Collingwood has unofficially installed Graeme Allan at the helm of the Magpies' football department despite the allegations against him surrounding his role in the alleged avoidance of a drug test by GWS midfielder Lachie Whitfield.
The long-standing AFL career and reputation of Graeme Allan hangs in the balance amid allegations that the former Giants football boss deleted text messages concerning an attempt to protect the club's former No.1 draft pick Lachie Whitfield from drug-testers.
Heading the long list of unanswered questions in the damaging case of young Giant is just why the AFL has taken so long to respond.
Punt Road shakeup hits hard and fast with five assistant coaches told not to report to work.
The inevitable sacking of Justin Leppitsch might have been "a horrible day" for the Brisbane Lions but rest assured there are plenty more to come.
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.
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