Finals Week 1 Shorts – Football first, umpiring unnoticed

Finals Week 1 Shorts – Football first, umpiring unnoticed

What an amazing first week of finals football we had the pleasure of witnessing.  Teams evenly matched following what was a controversial bye weekend, because they came into the weekend fixtures as fit as they could possibly be.  We believed going into the bye week...
Bye week – Shorts

Bye week – Shorts

Libby performs in the All Stars match Libby Toovey is part of the female pathway academy and a current member of the VFL Development Panel, as well as an AFLUA member.   Libby has had a mammoth 2016 by any standards.  She commenced her career as a professional school...
Finals panel released

Finals panel released

There are 6 running umpires appointed to their first finals appearance after what the umpiring department said was an extremely harrowing selection meeting.  Three other umpires debut in finals as emergencies. List veteran, field umpire, Chris Kamolins has finally...
NSW steals the show

NSW steals the show

The power base continues to grow in stature.  Four of the eight listed AFL umpires from NSW/ACT have been appointed to the first week of AFL finals.  If we discount Dale Puren who didn’t get onto the field this year due to illness and injury and we have a 57%...
A just reward for commitment and perseverance

A just reward for commitment and perseverance

One of the many endearing qualities of our most recent milestone recipient, Nick Wade is that he knows how to not take himself too seriously. “With the retirement of John Morris, I am now officially the oldest bloke on the list and very happy to say so and take...