The Age’s Caroline Wilson steps down as chief football writer
The Age’s long-standing chief football writer Caroline Wilson has left the role after almost two decades.
Wilson will be replaced by former The Age sports writer Jake Niall, and she will continue as a regular AFL columnist and panellist on the Real Footy podcast.
Wilson: ‘I’m so proud to be handing over the baton’
See ya & see ya.
Wilson was probably the best at writing about the AFL and did a great job for the age. The only frustration I had was her depth of knowledge was never as good covering the teams outside of Victoria. Which was fair enough when she is working as a Melbourne writer. However when she would be a talking head on a TV show it seemed a bit more obvious that she was a great Melbourne writer but not so great at discussing the AFL as a national competition. It never strayed into parochialism like so many of her peers though so that was encouraging.