SHAUN Ryan's road to the pinnacle of umpiring started with a part-time job which brought in "pocket money". Ryan, a fresh-faced schoolboy with aspirations of becoming a lawyer, didn't forecas...

South-west export Shaun Ryan credited the Warrnambool and District Football Umpires Association after officiating his eighth AFL grand final on Saturday at the MCG. The field umpire teamed up...

AFL Umpires coach, Hayden Kennedy joined the Bay 93.9 radio team on Wednesday morning to talk about grand final week for the umpires. Please click here to view the podcast....

The AFL announced the umpiring panel for the 2019 AFL Grand Final between Richmond and the GWS GIANTS, to be played at the MCG this Saturday, September 28. Shaun Ryan, Matt Stevic and Ray Chamberlain have been...

Fifty years in umpiring and guess what, Denis Edmund Gollop at the ripe old age of 70 years, is still umpiring in the Queensland Football League. Crickey makes one feel tired just writing about it.  Not only do...

Former AFL goal umpire and AFLUA Historian David Flegg was presented with an Australian Medal for his services to umpiring by the Hon. Linda Dessau AC, Governor of Victoria at Government House on Friday. Dav...

Amazingly, this weekend will be the first time since 2011 that both preliminary finals will be played at the MCG. In the last 7 years one has been at the MCG with the other being played in Sydney, Adelaide or P...

Here in the AFLUA office we are never far from supporter’s ire.  The phones run hot and our email line at times, is prone to melt.  Imagine the hysteria we were met with on Monday morning after Shaun Ryan’s com...