If there was going to be a first bounce in Friday night’s historic AFLW match at Ikon Park, Annie Mirabile wouldn’t want it. Some umpires like to take the opening bounce to get pre-game nerves out of the way immediately. Mirabile, 23, isn’t one...
It was a typical preseason opener. In Melbourne the weather was warm and the change rooms were a hive of activity. The facade had changed over summer, gone were the remnants of the Melbourne Rebels Rugby Union Club, the co-tenant of the umpires for the...
Ben Macdonald is one of three new boundary umpires appointed to the AFL Boundary Umpires’ list for season 2017. Ben joined the VFL in 2008 after having umpired with the Eastern Football League from 2004-2007. He umpired 150 VFL games and has a number of grand...
During 2016 the AFLUA lost a number of life members as well as former members. Additionally we were informed of or discovered other members who had passed in recent years without recognition. Where enough information is known obituaries have been added to the...
ELENI Glouftsis had just finished another busy day at school when she closed her books, picked up her whistle and hurried to get to football umpire’s training in Melbourne. It’s a month before Christmas and the AFL’s players — both male and female — aren’t the only...
