Game was up for Pert, and he won't be last to go
In recent years keeping up with all the chess moves at Collingwood can be as challenging as the game plan Nathan Buckley himself has battled to put in place.
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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.
Concerns raised over AFL sex scandal leak
Of all the missteps navigated by the AFL executive last week as it stumbled towards the only outcome left available to it, one of the most perplexing was one part of the message directed to staff eight days ago.
Player agents defy AFL push on signing teens
AFL player agents have defied a recommendation from head office that would have prevented them from approaching schoolboys as young as 15.
This is a wake-up call Gillon McLachlan cannot ignore
It was April 2014 when Brian Cook, a candidate for the top AFL job that ultimately went to Gillon McLachlan, sold to the commission his vision for an ethical, values-driven competition, similar to the one he helped build at Geelong.
AFL boss comes of age with a string of tough calls
For Gillon McLachlan, coming to the realisation on Thursday that he would be forced to terminate not one but two senior executives as a result of in-house affairs, was comparable to the various stages of grief.
Concerning affair for the AFL
The revelation on Monday that a male senior AFL staffer had an affair with a younger female colleague has created a significant degree of discomfort at the game's head office.
Buckley's time is up at Collingwood and Brad Scott is in the box seat to replace him
The now inevitable departure of Nathan Buckley from Collingwood begs so many follow-up questions, but the most intriguing is who will replace him.
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.
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.
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