Umpire Shorts

The split rounds have commenced and when we look around we have to ask ourselves where has the season gone?  It is fair to say that we all just get onto that treadmill called the weekly cycle and start peddling...

How long is a piece of string?  Eleven 50 metre penalties is a record in a game of AFL football said the statisticians who have been measuring everything in football forensically for the past few years.  Dane R...

Two umpires from completely different pathways celebrated their 100 game milestones on the weekend.  It has taken goal umpire, Daniel Hoskin 9 years and 4 games to notch his 100.  Dan umpired his first game in ...

Seventeen years on and over 707,000 kilometres of travel between Perth and Melbourne, Dean Margetts umpired his 300th AFL game at the new Optus Stadium in Perth on Saturday night in the match between Fremantle ...

“Grange Hermitage” comes to mind when we talk about Justin Schmitt who umpired his 350th AFL game on Friday night, he just keeps getting better with age!  Justin becomes the 13th umpire in the history of t...

When the football is one sided and umpiring goes unnoticed it would be tough to make changes going into the penultimate round of finals of 2017.  So spare a thought for Brendan Hosking and Ray Chamberlain ...

Veteran goal umpire, Jason Venkataya waved his flags for the 211th time in an AFL game on Friday night and bowed out of football.  In a great show of support for Jason all of the officiating umpires waited in t...

Brodie Kenny-Bell becomes the 340th goal umpire to debut in the VFL/AFL. Brodie officiated in the Sydney v GWS game at the SCG. Talking to Brodie today he was still on cloud nine and said that his family and fr...