Aug 13, 2019 | News, Umpire Shorts
Photo courtesy of: Grant Case Here we are with the blink of an eye on the brink of another season ending finale to match all finales. When did a season go down to the wire like this one? Snow fell on Canberra’s Manuka Oval during Friday night’s clash between the...
Aug 8, 2019 | Where Are They Now?
It is with great pleasure that l introduce our next ‘Where are they now?’ member. Our oldest AFLUA member is Roland Glanville ‘Roly’ Caird, affectionately known as Roly is currently 99 years of age and will turn 100 on the 23rdof June 2020. Roly was born to William...
Aug 6, 2019 | Uncategorized
Congratulations of course to Shane McInerney for an amazing 500 games of AFL football. However, there were two other milestones of sorts that were shadowed with the focus on Shane. Mat Nicholls officiated in his 350th AFL game when he stepped out in the Fremantle v...
Aug 5, 2019 | Milestones, News
The celebrations continue for our games record breaker Shane McInerney. Four AFL coaches arrived at training last Thursday night to recognise the enormity of Shane’s achievement. They arrived only to find every field umpire training in one of Shane’s 37 old umpiring...
Aug 5, 2019 | Where Are They Now?
Our next ‘Where are they now?” is boundary umpire Ray James ‘Splinter’ Prosser, Heritage number 347 who ran the boundary for 150 games in the two-boundary umpire system from 1977 to 1986. Nicknamed ‘Splinter’ because of his thin physique, Ray told me that most...
