Matthew started with the Sydney South Junior umpiring group in 2006 and was exposed to AFL Sydney Premier Division football as a boundary umpire in his first year by Anton Lewis (AFL Sydney stalwart). Matthew progressed to senior football as a field umpire in 2008 and...
Joining the AFL Boundary list in Sydney is Michael Barlow who has given up his career and studies in the ACT to move to Sydney. Michael started umpiring in 2010, umpired his first NEAFL game in 2012 before umpiring in the Under 16 championships in 2013 and his first...
Commencing his umpiring career with AFL Canberra back in 2010, the last 9 years have been one to remember for Patrick. Four NEAFL Grand Finals and two grand finals in the VFL is how Patrick Jackson landed his position onto the AFL boundary list for 2018. Patrick...
It isn’t often that an umpire who has just officiated an AFL grand final and is named All-Australian decides to retire but Luke Walker, after 14 seasons decided the time was right after giving so much energy and effort at being the best umpire he could be. Luke...
As a young 18 year old, Rob Haala remembers having what he calls ‘a foolish dream’ of umpiring 300 AFL games which he associated back to growing up and watching Tim Watson playing over 300 games with Essendon. Well as Rob hangs up his boots, he retires in equal...
