Melbourne based Umpire Training and Property Assistant Ben Carbonaro has been selected as a finalist in the National Employment Services Award For Excellence. NESA (National Employment Services Association) is Australia’s peak employment services body. Ben was...
AFL rookie field umpire, Matt Clarke was named in the Tasmanian State League 2015 team of the year when it was announced earlier this month . He followed up that accolade with his appointment in the TSL grand final last weekend. TSL football manager, Shaun Young...
What a contrasting set of semi finals we witnessed last weekend. One game was an open and fast affair, while the latter was a dour, tough contest with spot fires breaking out everywhere. Umpires – field, boundary and goal were put to the test. As we head into...
I put the question to our stats guru David Flegg. Have brothers ever umpired in finals in VFL/AFL history? David’s response was thorough as expected. Twin brothers, Reg and Keith Pawley goal umpired together in the first ever qualifying final in 1972. It was...
During footy finals time our attention is often turned to those great grand finals of yesteryear. So it was only fitting that we recognised two of our only surviving members from the ‘1950s*Field umpire, Bill Barbour and goal umpire, Roly Caird umpired the...
