Ian Burrows – 400 Games

Jun 13, 2024 | Milestones, News

Ian Burrows is set to join one of the most exclusive clubs in umpiring. Since 1897, just twelve people across all three umpiring disciplines have achieved the 400 game milestone. Of that twelve, the 602 past and present boundary umpires have produced just three...

AFLUA Statement – Stephen McBurney

Jun 12, 2024 | News

Given the recent appalling and threatening commentary from the Victorian Secretary of the CFMEU, John Setka, the AFLUA wishes to again declare its support for Stephen McBurney’s appointment to the AFL’s Head of Officiating role. The AFLUA represents both...

Where are they now? – Bill Pryde

Jun 6, 2024 | Where Are They Now?

My next ‘Where are they Now’ has been a football fanatic ever since he could walk. Having been brought up in a football environment, where his father Clifford was a trainer with the Footscray Football Club Reserves team who won the premiership in 1962, following...

Vale Peter Sheales

May 30, 2024 | Member News

History turns on the smallest detail.  In the final quarter of the 1971 VFL Grand Final Hawthorn’s Peter Hudson was sitting on a total of 150 goals for the season, one away from the record. Bob Keddie marked and from the ground handpassed to Hudson who goaled...

Walter Hopkins turns 100

May 21, 2024 | News

The AFLUA’s oldest member Walter Charles Hopkins OAM has reached a remarkable 100 years of age. ‘Wally’ was born on 15th May 1924 in Seddon. At that time Europe was still recovering from the cataclysmic upheaval of war and revolution. Vladimir Lennin had died in...