Round 17 – shorts

Jul 17, 2014 | News, Umpire Shorts

It was a case of “old home week” for a number of the AFL umpires last weekend when our Tassie boys went back to Blundstone Arena and a welcome home.  Scott Jeffery hadn’t been back since 1998 when he travelled to Melbourne to pursue his dream of AFL...

Courtney ready to go

Jul 9, 2014 | News

Goal umpire, Courtney Lai has been quietly working in the background rehabilitating his knee that had to be reconstructed following that awful collision with Liam Picken in round two 2013.  Courtney began umpiring in the TAC Cup some 10 weeks ago.  As his confidence...

Round 16 – shorts

Jul 7, 2014 | News, Umpire Shorts

While two of our senior umpires made solid comebacks on the weekend in the VFL, that was soured by a serious calf injury to our new Friday night specialist, Chris Kamolins.  Chris was replaced at three-quarter time in the North Melbourne v. Hawthorn game by Matthew...

MCC organises cocktail party for Ian Huntington

Jul 7, 2014 | News

Ex-VFL umpire Ian Huntington became a quadriplegic almost a year ago in a freak accident while playing golf.  The MCC are conducting a cocktail party for Ian on July 16 between 6pm-9pm in the Long Room.  All of his colleagues are invited to attend this fundraising...

Fifty games for Matty Konetschka

Jul 4, 2014 | Milestones, News

Who was the last 21 year old with fifty games of AFL experience under his belt?  Chris Simms maybe?  Not sure really.  One thing I do know is that this quietly spoken university student is passionate about a few things and one is certainly his footy. “I love...