Footy and umpiring a shared passion
We sat on an old wooden picnic table outside the library in North Sydney, the sun warming our backs, sipping on a coffee chatting about footy and life. I was the old fella and Alex Chisholm, the fresh faced yo...
Week 1 Finals shorts: Match results are never an indicator of game pressure
Three of the four finals on the weekend were decided on the scoreboard by over 40 points. Take one look at the results and you could be excused for thinking the games were all one-way traffic.
Finals are nev...
One of a kind – Mark’s his 400th AFL game
South Australian based boundary umpire, Mark Thomson became only the second boundary umpire in the history of the game to umpire 400 AFL games in the round 23 clash between Port Adelaide and Fremantle. The oth...
What ever happened to……..The man they called “Sinca’s”
Former High-Performance Umpire’s Manager of the Western Australian Football League (WAFL), Darryl Sinclair is finding new meaning in his life working for the Stephen Michael Foundation. Darryl works with young ...
Finals panel 2019 released
Ten debutants have made the first cut of the AFL 2019 finals race. Five field umpires, three boundary umpires and two goal umpires have had their performances in 2019 vindicated by selectors and eagerly await ...
Shane McInerney – The GOAT?
Five hundred and two games after an inauspicious start in a Carlton v Sydney match at Princess Park in 1994, the curtain has finally come down on one of the real characters of AFL umpiring.
Let’s take nothing ...
Hayden hits 50………. 50 AFL Games
It only seems like yesterday that Hayden Gavine commenced his career with the AFL, having been appointed to the list in 2017. Two seasons later, he notched up his 50thAFL game when he took to the field on Satu...