Milestones

AFL Boundary Umpire, Ben Macdonald achieves 50 games

Ben Macdonald has had a whirlwind couple of weeks.  Not only did he umpire his 50thAFL game, he was one of four boundary umpires selected to umpire in China. Ben joined the AFL in 2017. His career started wi...

Peter Bock notches up his 50th AFL game

Peter’s promotion to the AFL Boundary Squad was quite different to many others, however he has settled in nicely and recently officiated his 50thAFL game between Brisbane and Hawthorn at the Gabba on Saturday 1...

50 games up for Michael Baker

Michael started boundary umpiring in Canberra in 2004 where he umpired his first final in 2005 and his first grand final in 2006. He then umpired the AFL Canberra Premier Division Grand Final and the Under 16 N...

Goal Umpire, Michael Palm achieves 100 games

Big crowd, traditional rivals, last quarter come back, MCG….what more could you ask in setting the scene for your 100thAFL game? Michael Palm notched up his century at the Carlton v Collingwood game at the M...

AFL Boundary Umpire – Drew Kowalski celebrates 150 games

‘Drew’ is simply ‘Drew’ was how colleague and close friend Chris Gordon responded when asked to describe Drew Kowalski.  ‘Drew is literally just Drew with everybody!’ Drew recently joined a number of his col...