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'No position yet' on Buckley's future at Collingwood
Nathan Buckley will go into Collingwood’s final-round AFL clash against Melbourne not knowing if it will be his last game as coach.
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Nathan Buckley will go into Collingwood’s final-round AFL clash against Melbourne not knowing if it will be his last game as coach.
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Caroline Wilson has fired back at Sam Newman, labelling him a “Neanderthal” after his scathing attack on the Nine Network’s Footy Show.
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Eddie McGuire will sit out tonight’s Fox Footy AFL coverage, citing emotional exhaustion, as his mate and former colleague Sam Newman last night turned the blowtorch on the victim of last week’s verbal barrage, journalist Caroline Wilson.
As senior Richmond players last night declared their intention to boycott radio station Triple M over the Eddie McGuire-led attack on journalist Caroline Wilson that has ignited national debate, Crows skipper Taylor Walker was taking an opposite tack, declaring he was “sick” of hearing about the controversy.
Holden is reviewing its lucrative Collingwood sponsorship, adding a critical new element to the controversy involving prominent AFL figures Eddie McGuire and Caroline Wilson.
UPDATED: After repeatedly suggesting he would not do so, Collingwood president and media heavyweight Eddie McGuire has apologised to Caroline Wilson, retracting comments about the journalist that he acknowledged could have been construed as encouraging domestic violence.
After a week in which it formalised its Women’s League and raised awareness of violence against women, the AFL last night belatedly weighed in on an escalating controversy – after a group of high-profile football identities joked about drowning a prominent female journalist. Here is the column by Erin Riley that helped bring the incident to wider attention.