Round 5 – Shorts
Here is a quirky one to start this weeks observations. Did Ben Ryan not hear the call from Luke Hodge yesterday which meant that the coin had to be tossed again or was it that the coin tosser used a "lucky coi...
Round 4 – shorts
A full round of matches this week and no emergency umpires got a run! Phew what a difference seven days can make. Two of the field umpires who were replaced last weekend, Jason Armstrong and Ben Ryan were abl...
Round 3 – shorts
Field umpiring over the weekend became became a war of attrition as three umpires went down on Sunday with injury during matches.
Ben Ryan left the ground in the GWS v Melbourne with an ankle injury and was ...
Round 2 – shorts
Two field umpires bit the dust prior to the commencement of the round which saw David Harris and Leigh Fisher come in for their first games of the season. Scott Jeffery (back) and Jason Armstrong (calf) were ...
Monday Shorts Round one
The AFL lists were finalised a week before round one commenced bringing something old and many things new.
Cameron Ward, returned to training pre christmas with a long term view to regaining his spot on the ...
Umpire Shorts – 19 August 2013
The umpiring department obviously thought that Jack McBurney might need some assistance in his 400 AFL appearance on the weekend so they appointed him with Shane McInerney who was doing his 373rd game and with ...
Umpire Shorts – 5 August 2013
Field umpire, Matthew Leppard achieved a bitter-sweet milestone on Saturday at Box Hill when he umpired his 100th VFL match. Matthew has had an inconsistent season with only ten AFL appearances. Matthew is foc...
Umpire Shorts – 30 July
Field umpire, Jacob Mollison reached his 100 game milestone in Friday night's blockbuster between Essendon and Hawthorn. Jacob, was promoted onto the AFL senior list in 2008 after a whirlwind career through the...