Carlton rebuild continues as four young Blues recommit
​Carlton have reinforced their vow to rebuild the club via youthful elite talent by signing a trio of their most promising teenagers.
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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.
How the death of his best mate made Hinkley realise 'it's a goddamn game'
Port coach Ken Hinkley sometimes felt football was like life and death ... then the sudden death of his best mate delivered a terrible reminder.
The Laguntas: roaring success for Tigers and the Indigenous
The Laguntas — an aboriginal word for tiger — were controversially introduced into the Victorian football landscape in 2013 at a time when the competition was largely bereft of Indigenous talent raised in this state.
Free agents for life: AFL to relax player movement
One of the most contentious issues in the modern game is about to be relaxed in the new collective bargaining agreement with the players.
Shanghai match: Suns an international embarrassment
Gold Coast lacked preparation for their first and potentially last international game of football.
Football's lost years in Tasmania
Awash with images of ovals where footy is no longer played, a group of legendary Tasmanians make an emotional pitch to the AFL for their own team.
Too little, too late from AFL over sexist attacks
The irony of the AFL proudly unveiling its first woman field umpire in a week in which it had utterly failed to take a stand on a series of disgusting sexist verbal attacks aimed at Carlton captain Marc Murphy was lost on the game's leaders.
AFL fails at stamping out sexism, misogyny on the field
The football fraternity's somewhat feeble response to a series of repulsive verbal attacks levelled at Carlton captain Marc Murphy does not reflect well on the game and its still clear default position regarding what happens verbally on the field.
Radical late-season fixture reset as early as next year
Club chiefs to consider new format championed by McLachlan to effectively turn the finals into 10-team proposition.
Recruit dared to dream before the reality struck
Johann Wagner works nightshift these days in the Roxby Downs mines. He embarks on the six-hour drive from Port Lincoln for the seven-day shift on a week-on, week-off basis that makes even country football virtually impossible apart from the odd cameo.
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