ST Joseph’s College student – and local football umpire – Antonio Liparota met his heroes this week as part of the 2014 AFL Umpire Roadshow. Please click here to view the article from the Mildura Weekly....

TWO Australian Football League umpires spent Wednesday passing on their knowledge and skills to local officials and schoolchildren. Please click here to view the article from The Northern Times....

I can still hear the words ringing in my ears, even though it was more than thirty years ago. "If you don't have an umpire you don't have a game." Please click here to view the article from ABC South West WA...

Cliff Heard c.1942 http://oa.anu.edu.au/ Running our infrequent check of the Ryerson index of death notices last month we noted some recent (and not so recent) passings. Each was a member of the VFLUA an...

OUTGOING AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou was instrumental in creating a zero tolerance approach on abuse towards­ umpires, according to umpire­ Stuart Wenn. Please click here to view the full article fr...

AFL Umpires Simon Meredith, Nick Liparota, Brendan Hosking and Adam Wojcik will visit the Gold Coast, Northern Rivers, Sunshine Coast and Wide Bay from today as part of the AFL Umpire Roadshow. Please click ...

Nathan Doig was extremely proud to receive his 2013 awards as the best boundary umpire in the AFL and his action photo from the grand final.  When asked to reflect on those achievements he said with great respe...

While our three listed field umpires in WA have only umpired six quarters of footy during the pre-season they are primed and ready to go. Veteran, Dean Margetts, who is getting ready for his 12th season of AFL ...