2018 Rookie listed umpire – Matthew Baigent

Matthew started with the Sydney South Junior umpiring group in 2006 and was exposed to AFL Sydney Premier Division football as a boundary umpire in his first year by Anton Lewis (AFL Sydney stalwart). Matthew p...

2018 leads Patrick Jackson onto the AFL Boundary List

Commencing his umpiring career with AFL Canberra back in 2010, the last 9 years have been one to remember for Patrick.  Four NEAFL Grand Finals and two grand finals in the VFL is how Patrick Jackson landed his ...

Retiree – AFL Goal Umpire, Luke Walker

It isn’t often that an umpire who has just officiated an AFL grand final and is named All-Australian decides to retire but Luke Walker, after 14 seasons decided the time was right after giving so much energy an...

Retiree – AFL Boundary Umpire, Rob Haala

As a young 18 year old, Rob Haala remembers having what he calls ‘a foolish dream’ of umpiring 300 AFL games which he associated back to growing up and watching Tim Watson playing over 300 games with Essendon. ...

Matt Dervan takes home the Brian Pratt Medallion

Matthew Dervan was awarded with the Brian Pratt Medallion as the most promising first or second year goal umpire and what a sensational 2017 he had! Matthew was the emergency goal umpire in the grand final i...

Mitch Le Fevre makes 2017 count

Boundary umpire, Mitch Le Fevre spent more time getting up and out of his seat and getting behind the microphone than our MC did at our awards function on Sunday 11 February 2018. Mitch had a year that he su...