Risky business gets AFL close to pre-season naming rights deal
As late as Monday, the league was searching for a sponsor and name for former NAB Challenge. Now there's a deal with twist of irony.
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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 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.
Walsh's return adds to the intrigue at Collingwood
The extraordinary return of Geoff Walsh to Collingwood little more than three years after he walked out of the club, having said his piece to some board members and clearly at odds with the chief executive Gary Pert, again underlines that football is as forgiving as it is pragmatic.
Richardson's search for football enlightenment
Saints coach turned to an ashram in the foothills of the Himalayas in a bid to improve his self-control.
Ablett, a multi-million-dollar cautionary tale
That Gary Ablett's legacy is already being debated, and with an eternal question mark over his commitment to the Gold Coast Suns, does not bode well for Rodney Eade.
AFL set sights on club pokies addictions
The AFL has responded to increasing social pressure and will put in place a responsible gambling policy before the start of the 2017 season.
Collingwood make a play for Hawthorn's Graham Wright
Collingwood has made a play for Hawthorn's highly regarded list manager Graham Wright in its search for a new head of football.
GWS could get draft penalties in 2017 over Whitfield case
AFL remains determined to penalise Greater Western Sydney for conduct unbecoming over the Lachie Whitfield affair but could now defer draft penalties until 2017.
AFL in a muddle over Brownlow presentation
Even allowing for the appropriate sensitivity afforded Essendon's devastated Jobe Watson, the inescapable impression is that the AFL has danced around the practical details of how to manage the handover to Sam Mitchell and Trent Cotchin.
Footy likley to give Allan and Lambert another go
If behaviours within Australian sport and particularly football mirror the behaviours of society, Â then clearly we are a most forgiving nation.
A small victory for Richmond's ‘lunatic fringe’
The resignation of another long-serving Richmond board member and the club's move to legislate against dead wood directorships should be seen as a victory for those challengers to the club who have been portrayed in recent months as the lunatic fringe of AFL supporters.
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