AFLUA life member Frank Knight has spent most of his life in the service of VFL/AFL football. Frank umpired on the VFL reserve grade during the late 1950's and 60's. He forged a career in the now de...
SYDNEY coach John Longmire says umpires need to “spend more time working on their craft” after admitting he approached the AFL about the lopsided free kick count in last year’s Grand Final.
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If there was going to be a first bounce in Friday night's historic AFLW match at Ikon Park, Annie Mirabile wouldn't want it.
Some umpires like to take the opening bounce to get pre-game nerves out of th...
It was a typical preseason opener. In Melbourne the weather was warm and the change rooms were a hive of activity. The facade had changed over summer, gone were the remnants of the Melbourne Rebels ...
Ben Macdonald is one of three new boundary umpires appointed to the AFL Boundary Umpires’ list for season 2017.
Ben joined the VFL in 2008 after having umpired with the Eastern Football League from 200...
During 2016 the AFLUA lost a number of life members as well as former members.
Additionally we were informed of or discovered other members who had passed in recent years without recognition.
Wh...
ELENI Glouftsis had just finished another busy day at school when she closed her books, picked up her whistle and hurried to get to football umpire’s training in Melbourne.
It’s a month before Christmas ...
Like most umpires, Hayden Gavine's introduction to umpiring started when he was young, at the age of 13, when he ran the boundary in the Under 18’s and Seniors on Saturday and ran the field on the Sunday in the...