Round 2 shorts – Dean Margetts chalks up 300 AFL games

Apr 3, 2018 | News, Umpire Shorts

Seventeen years on and over 707,000 kilometres of travel between Perth and Melbourne, Dean Margetts umpired his 300th AFL game at the new Optus Stadium in Perth on Saturday night in the match between Fremantle and Essendon.  Both Ross Lyon and John Worsfold...

2018 Royal Children’s Hospital – Good Friday Appeal

Apr 3, 2018 | News

The AFL Umpires Association through the Jeff Crouch Foundation donated $6,500.00 to the Royal Children’s Hospital on Good Friday. Current AFL Boundary Umpire and AFLUA Executive Member, Tim Lougoon along with his wife Louise and baby boy Mitchell presented the cheque...

AFLUA interstate visits

Mar 28, 2018 | News

The AFLUA recently completed a visit to meet with our interstate umpires in Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Sydney.  As part of the association’s engagement strategy, Peter Howe and Peter Kelly welcomed new umpires and provided a comprehensive induction overview of the...

Vale Ross Raphael

Mar 27, 2018 | News

Eighty-eight year old Ross Raphael passed away after a brief illness.  According to his life long friend, Ron Bailey, Ross who only turned 88 on Sunday was admitted to hospital four weeks ago and passed away peacefully in the early hours of Monday morning. Ross was...

Round 1 shorts – AFL Rookies take the field in the 2018 AFLW GF

Mar 26, 2018 | News

Congratulations to all of our colleagues who were appointed to the first AFL grand final in 2018.  In particular it was great to see our second year AFL rookie John Howorth from the VFL get appointed to his first AFLW grand final.  John was very pleased and simply saw...