A wily veteran lands 200 AFL games
Run your eye down the list of boundary umpires that front up week after week, do their job and go home you'd struggle to name most of them. They are the unheralded men of footy. They have to run harder, faste...
Long apprenticeship pays off
Field umpire Andrew Mitchell (Mitch) walked onto Blundstone Arena on Saturday quietly confident that he could handle whatever the game threw at him. "I had an eight year apprenticeship in the VFL with almost 1...
Umpire Shaun Ryan is back with a bounce
Shaun Ryan has not thumped a football into the turf since the last quarter of the 2011 grand final, and his back feels all the better for it.
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Round 21 – Shorts
The comebacks continued from VFL to AFL this week. Simon Meredith and Chris Kamolins were back from long term injury and illness. Both of these experienced umpires bolstered the ranks and brought a level of e...
Open door coaching for older legends
The AFL Umpiring Department in collaboration with the AFL Umpires Association opened its training and coaching doors on Wednesday afternoon and evening to our retired umpires who wanted to see if things were do...
Round 20 – Shorts
AFL goal umpire David Dixon has equalled Colin Hood's record of 311 games this weekend when he officiated in the St.Kilda v Western Bulldogs match at Etihad Stadium on Sunday. This puts David and Colin equal f...
Jordan Bannister adds another 50 games
We all know about Jordan's footy career with Essendon and Carlton but it is his resurgence to get to 50 games as an umpire that has pleased him the most. "I was dying to get back," reflected Jordan last week. ...
Life in footy’s firing line
An invitation into the inner sanctum of the weekly AFL umpires review debunks a few myths surrounding the men who adjudicate the national game.
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