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Jack began umpiring with the Northern Football League in 2004 and not long after realised his potential and set himself a long term goal to umpire in the AFL, 11 years later Jack is thriving under the pressure ...

Newly listed AFL goal umpire, Brodie Kenny-Bell has a passion for footy and loves a challenge. When we caught up with him for a chat about his footy he was already at training an hour and a half early, "work wa...

My experience so far down at AFL has been truly amazing. Training has been a massive step up from previous years, but a challenge I’ve enjoyed working through. Everyone is so welcoming, encouraging and suppo...

The AFL Boundary Umpires year officially kicked off across the country in mid-January. As has been the case for a number of years, the 5km Time Trial formed part of the first week for the panel. With that now c...

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 succ...

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 fie...

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...

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 la...