The ground announcer's voice boomed across the MCG on Saturday night as the umpires entered the arena ".........and congratulations to field umpire Shane McInerney on umpiring his 400th AFL game." The scoreboa...
Run your eye down the list of boundary umpires that front up week after week, do their job and go home you'd struggle to name most of them. They are the unheralded men of footy. They have to run harder, faste...
Field umpire Andrew Mitchell (Mitch) walked onto Blundstone Arena on Saturday quietly confident that he could handle whatever the game threw at him. "I had an eight year apprenticeship in the VFL with almost 1...
Shaun Ryan has not thumped a football into the turf since the last quarter of the 2011 grand final, and his back feels all the better for it.
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The comebacks continued from VFL to AFL this week. Simon Meredith and Chris Kamolins were back from long term injury and illness. Both of these experienced umpires bolstered the ranks and brought a level of e...
The AFL Umpiring Department in collaboration with the AFL Umpires Association opened its training and coaching doors on Wednesday afternoon and evening to our retired umpires who wanted to see if things were do...
AFL goal umpire David Dixon has equalled Colin Hood's record of 311 games this weekend when he officiated in the St.Kilda v Western Bulldogs match at Etihad Stadium on Sunday. This puts David and Colin equal f...
We all know about Jordan's footy career with Essendon and Carlton but it is his resurgence to get to 50 games as an umpire that has pleased him the most. "I was dying to get back," reflected Jordan last week. ...