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The mystery of Jobe's missing Brownlow has been solved
We now know exactly where to find the most controversial Brownlow Medal in the game's history.
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.
We now know exactly where to find the most controversial Brownlow Medal in the game's history.
AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan has not ruled out the prospect of reducing the number of players in AFL games as the competition works to reduce on-field congestion.
For all his last-ditch attempts to manage expectations around the national launch of women's football, it seems that Gillon McLachlan and his team have created a monster with the birth of AFL Women's.
Greater Western Sydney have scored another victory against the AFL and now look certain to retain their contentious Riverina academy zone and, specifically, Albury.
Essendon will look to rewrite their privileged-tenant contract with Etihad Stadium with a view to playing more home games at the MCG.
That Mark Evans' name continues to headline speculation regarding the next chief executive of the Hawthorn Football Club spells good news for the Hawks.
St Kilda will unveil Jarryn Geary as its new captain in the coming days putting an official end to the Nick Riewoldt leadership era.
The AFL now looks highly unlikely to expand its eight-team national women's competition until at least 2019 in a move which has placed it at odds with a number of losing bidder clubs who believe they have been misled.
The AFL will on Wednesday unveil its newly named pre-season competition as the JLT Community Series after striking a three-year deal with its insurance broker JLT Sport.
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.
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