May 14, 2024 | Where Are They Now?
It must be hard following your parent into the same sporting field, burdened with the expectation to equal, if not better, your parent’s achievements. My next ‘Where are they Now’, Graham Eric Brewer, is just that case. His father Eric OAM succeeded in all aspects of...
Nov 2, 2023 | Where Are They Now?
This one’s a classic! Every year we see Malcom Blight kick for goal after the siren in 1976 against Carlton to win the game. The kick travelled at least 70 meters but almost 5 decades on, as legend grows and the kick gets longer and longer. Blight kicked...
Oct 3, 2023 | Where Are They Now?
My next ‘Where are they Now?’ profile – Doug Edwin Lamb – has spent 40 years in Football: the first 7 years as a field umpire, with the VFL and the VFLRG, and then 6 years with the Sunday Amateurs from 1954 to 1959 as a field umpire and 1 as a goal umpire; then in...
Sep 20, 2023 | Where Are They Now?
Well, here we go! If my next ‘Where are they Now?’ profile is not an umpiring man, then I have not seen one. Graeme Keith Williams has done it all. Starting as a Field Umpire; 6 Senior VFL games; 10 VCFL Grand Finals; Goal Umpire; VFL Grand Final Goal Umpire in 1990....
Jul 20, 2023 | Where Are They Now?
With the coming together of the Umpiring Associations’ Life Members for social functions, Victorian Football League/Australian Football League, VFL Reserve Grade, Victorian Football Association, and hopefully the VFL Cadet Squad, I thought it would be appropriate that...
Mar 30, 2023 | Where Are They Now?
‘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...
