Field umpire Matthew Young recently reflected on his maiden AFL match, after his introduction to the big stage arrived in Round 3 (Season 2023) during the Gold Coast v. Geelong match at Carrara (Heritage Bank Stadium).
Retired field umpire Glenn James, OAM, has been acknowledged as the Sir Doug Nicholls Round honouree for AFL Season 2023.
Field umpire Leigh Fisher capped off a memorable AFL 2023 Round 4, as he took charge of the Geelong v Hawthorn match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Monday, 10 April 2023.
Welcome to Gladys Elphick Park in Adelaide, the new training base for our South Australia AFL umpires!
The AFLUA has donated $8,800 from the Jeff Crouch Foundation to the Royal Children’s Hospital as part of their Good Friday Appeal.
The AFL Umpires Association’s current and life members gathered at the Latrobe Golf Course in Alphington for our recent golf day event, held on 3 April 2023.
‘HOWZAT!’ is a cry that you do not hear often in AFL Football, but our next ‘Where are they Now?’ profile, in Barry Royston Morrison, has used that appeal probably thousands of times whilst playing Cricket with the Northcote Cricket Club in the Premier Division of District Cricket. Now Barry, who with the VFLUA umpired at many country leagues over the 11 years he was on the list, has one claim to fame that he was a member of the 1965-66 Cricket Premiership, the team that chased down 9 dec. 514 by Essendon C.C. to win the match with a record score of 5 for 516. In this game, Bill Lawry the opening batsman, stated to his fellow teammates ‘If you get half the runs, I will get the rest’, and as it turned out, Bill was 282 not out at the end of play. Barry was disappointed that he did not get a chance to bat as he was next in but as the club’s wicket-keeper, contributed with three catches in the match. Barry played 123 games for the Northcote C.C. First XI from 1956-71.
Field Umpire Martin Rodger marked his AFL introduction at the grandest stage of them all, as Melbourne giants Hawthorn and Essendon served up a high-octane contest at the MCG in Season 2023 Round 1.
‘Surreal’ was the word field umpire Andrew Adair used to describe his maiden AFL match, after taking to the field at the Heritage Bank Stadium where Gold Coast and Sydney Swans battled for their opening Premiership points from Round 1.