Feb 5, 2015 | News
When five time grand final umpire, Shaun Ryan retired at the end of 2011 it bewildered many of his colleagues and caught the AFL by surprise. Shaun was just not enjoying his football anymore. Despite his success over the previous five years the constant grind of...
Feb 4, 2015 | News
Newly listed field umpire, Nick Brown is not far away from achieving his goal, “to umpire at least one AFL game.” As a fresh faced 14 year old Nick began boundary umpiring with the VAFA. He then switched to field umpiring the following year, realised his potential and...
Jan 30, 2015 | News
Not sure where that pre-season went? Well join the club! We last saw the field umpires at 6.30am on Tuesday December 23 2014 doing their 3km fitness test. Nothing strange about that you might say, it has been that time in December for many years. It saw the finish...
Jan 30, 2015 | News
Brent Wallace is very familiar with the blood, sweat and tears that is playing AFL football, now with whistle in hand….. not much has changed really! Brent was appointed to the AFL field umpire panel late last year through the player to umpire pathway and is now...
Jan 27, 2015 | News
