Round 4 Shorts: Son of a gun umpires his 50th game

Apr 16, 2019 | News, Umpire Shorts

It would be fair to say that field umpire Brent Wallace has had more than his share of setbacks since he was first contracted to the list in 2015.  Last Thursday night Brent stepped out in his 50th AFL match following his first injury-free preseason since 2015 and...

Round 3 shorts: The world has been tilted off its axis and it’s only Round 3!

Apr 10, 2019 | News, Umpire Shorts

If you’ve followed the media closely over the weekend you could quickly assume that the football world has become unhinged and fallen off its axis.  Every commentator had an opinion on different aspects of last weekend’s games. Front and centre was Brian Taylor on...

Book Launch: More of the Kangaroo – 150 years of Australian football in Queensland – 1866 to 2016

Apr 5, 2019 | News

Congratulations to former AFL umpire Murray Bird along with his colleague Greg Parker who will launch their new book, ‘More of the Kangaroo – 150 years of Australian football in Queensland – 1866 to 2016’. Their book is a complete history of Queensland...

Round One brings up 100 games for Tim Lougoon

Apr 3, 2019 | News

Tim made his debut as an AFL umpire in round 5 of the 2014 AFL season and recently reached his 100thAFL game when he umpired the Richmond v Carlton game in round one. Like a lot of umpires, Tim started his umpiring career after sustaining a few injuries whilst playing...

Final list announcements 2019

Apr 3, 2019 | News

The final list announcements were made in the lead up to the AFLW grand final last week. VFL umpire and contracted Rookie field umpire, Andrew Heffernan was offered the 34th and last spot on the list as a contracted field umpire for 2019. Andrew has been a rookie...