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About Caroline Wilson
About 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 is a multiple winner of Australian Football Media Association awards, including most outstanding football writer and most outstanding feature writer (2000, 2003, 2005). Wilson was also voted the AFL Players' Association's football writer of the year in 1999. Before joining The Age, she covered Wimbledon four times and worked extensively in radio. She has also covered both the Sydney and Athens Olympic Games for The Age, along with three Commonwealth Games. Wilson also appears on 3AW's pre-match discussion and Channel Nine's new Monday night AFL program.
Ground deal dispute causes club ructions
The board of Telstra Dome have knocked back an agreement that could
have secured the medium-term future of several Victorian clubs.
Polak's career in limbo as Tigers look at Nahas
Richmond is looking to place Graham Polak on its long-term injury list on the eve of the season and promote its gun rookie Robin Nahas.
Saints view umpire clash as 'disturbing'
An unhappy St Kilda Football Club has lodged its concerns to the AFL following an umpire collision that has left 21-year-old Robert Eddy nursing a four-week knee injury.
Cousins could be making of Tigers
It was never going to be just about the football. From the moment Ben Cousins moved to Melbourne shortly before Christmas and was spotted in Chapel Street buying a juice, the panicked sightings and subsequent reports to Tigerland began.
Lyon down the law: Cousins inspires Saints
St Kilda coach Ross Lyon has told Nick Riewoldt, Luke Ball and Lenny Hayes to rise to Ben Cousins playing standards.
Roos paid Thompson $100,000
The Kangaroos were forced to pay Nathan Thompson a $100,000
settlement as a result of last year's botched handling of the
decision to delist the veteran forward.
Kangaroos coach turns it around
Dean Laidley is a changed man. His players, who are having longer conversations with him now, have noticed it, and so have the North Melbourne staff.
Bulldogs deny Dees in fight for sponsor
As the economy sours, Melbourne is still struggling to sign a major sponsor.
O'hAilpin may face axe after wild blue blunder
Carlton may yet axe Setanta O'hAilpin after he punched teammate Cameron Cloke and kicked him while he was down.
Blue Skies
Brett Ratten can't believe his "good fortune" in arriving at a battered Carlton during a time of great change.
Saints pull plug on a superstar who lurked in the shadows
Test controversy and sponsor concerns leave former Eagle star on the outer.
AFL opens door for Cousins but disdain remains
The league provided a difficult solution to an equally formidable problem.
Ben's back but the AFL tightens the shackles
The AFL already had an illicit drugs policy, but that was never enough to catch Ben Cousins.
Demons plan to turn MCG into elite facility
Melbourne Football Club has revealed its plan to develop an elite training facility within the walls of the MCG.
Brisbane Lions to move on Cousins
The Brisbane Lions have emerged as genuine contenders for fallen
champion Ben Cousins as the AFL Commission prepares to rule on the
sacked West Coast player's future.
Blues to follow Hawthorn's premiership plan
The Carlton Football Club will officially step out tomorrow. The proud Blues have not played finals for seven years and in that mostly miserable period took home their first three wooden spoons and finished 15th twice.
Voss acts swiftly and decisively
There was a brief period late in the winter of 2007 when Michael Voss' tough, uncompromising image took a hit.
AFL keen to join Magpies at new home
VFL games by the Yarra River look set to become a feature of
Collingwood's new training ground at the Olympic Park site.
Demons duped
The Melbourne Football Club has every right to be feeling aggrieved about its 2009 fixture.
AFL contests Telstra Dome's drinking rights
The AFL launches a seven-figure claim against the
soon-to-be-renamed Telstra Dome for the proceeds of alcohol served
at the stadium in the past nine years.
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