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 fo...

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...

Low scores, a couple of blowouts and a heap of warm and humid weather across the country didn’t stop AFL football from hitting our television screens for round one, across four days last week. On the back of...

Billed as a grand final too close to call, the game itself certainly lived up to those expectations!  With scores level at the end of the third quarter, the game finished with West Coast the victors by 5 points...

Boundary umpire, Mitch Le Fevre achieved another milestone on Saturday evening, in Tasmanian like weather conditions.  Mitch would’ve felt right at home in the 7-degree temperature (windchill 3-degrees), albeit...

Some fifty young Down Syndrome participants and their siblings got the thrill of a lifetime when they got to have a “kick on the G” prior to the Melbourne v GWS match on Sunday.  The AFL, MCC and Apricot Consul...

Field umpires, Justin Schmitt and Troy Pannell stood in front of their Melbourne colleagues before training on Thursday night and announced their retirements from AFL Football at the end of the season. Scott Je...

Matt Stevic - 350 AFL games, Shaun Ryan - 300 AFL games, Tristan Symes - 150 AFL games and Chelsea Roffey floored by Oscar McDonald in the Melbourne v Sydney clash. It doesn’t get bigger than this. Shaun Ryan ...