The last of our State League grand finals are held this weekend in our three traditional football heartlands.  It doesn't matter whether you are the most credentialed, you have to be the best performed to enjoy...

Melbourne based Umpire Training and Property Assistant Ben Carbonaro has been selected as a finalist in the National Employment Services Award For Excellence.  NESA (National Employment Services Association) is...

AFL rookie field umpire, Matt Clarke was named in the Tasmanian State League 2015 team of the year when it was announced earlier this month .  He followed up that accolade with his appointment in the TSL grand ...

What a contrasting set of semi finals we witnessed last weekend.  One game was an open and fast affair, while the latter was a dour, tough contest with spot fires breaking out everywhere.  Umpires - field, boun...

I put the question to our stats guru David Flegg. Have brothers ever umpired in finals in VFL/AFL history?   David's response was thorough as expected.  Twin brothers, Reg and Keith Pawley goal umpired toget...

During footy finals time our attention is often turned to those great grand finals of yesteryear.  So it was only fitting that we recognised two of our only surviving members from the '1950s*Field umpire, ...

AFL Rookie field umpire, James Waldorf from Queensland was involved in an absolute nail biter in the NEAFL grand final for the second year in a row.  NT Thunder was over run by Aspley but managed to hang on to ...

Week two of the finals always throws up some interesting ins and outs.  Grand final umpires in the past two years, Simon Meredith and Mathew Nicholls find themselves sitting on the benches this week as emergenc...