From the six boundary umpires to debut in 2004, there stands just one in 2017. A man who will be only the 12th boundary umpire in history to walk out for 300 AFL matches this weekend. A man who also typifies th...
Former AFL footballer David Rodan will debut in his first AFL game this weekend as a goal umpire. David will partner Stephen Williams in the Nth Melbourne v Fremantle match this Sunday.
David played 18...
Boundary umpire, Adam Coote was back for his third game in 2017 on the weekend. Adam’s season has been scuttled by injury following a pre season operation. Adam now has 270 games to his name includi...
Luke Walker just keeps on keeping on. It’s an old cliche but a very apt one when thinking about Luke. In Luke’s 12th year on the list he continues to find the drive necessary to excel at the elite l...
Just hours after receiving the ultimate accolade from his sport highly decorated AFL field umpire Brett Allen maintained that a vocation as an umpire was never more appealing than in the current era.
Allen w...
Two umpires will celebrate milestones on Sunday afternoon at the St Kilda v Gold Coast Suns game - Brendan ‘Hosko’ Hosking will umpire his 100th AFL game alongside Hayden Gavine who walks onto the ground to ump...
The AFLUA recently visited Leigh Fisher’s new café – the Cornerstone and Co – a small licenced café located in the leafy back streets of Hampton, to catch up with Hayden Gavine, who will umpire his first AFL ga...
Umpiring an AFL Grand Final is every umpires’ dream, doing six places you in a league of your own! Luke Walker, who will umpire his 250th AFL game this weekend, is ranked third in the all-time list of goal umpi...