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Michael Voss to Brett Voss one day when he played on him "My dad f*cked your Mum"

The only exception to the above is come finals time an umpire gets paid the same fee regardless of whether ist 2 or 3 umpires ie three umpires get paid the same amount as they would if there were only two umpires officiating in a final.

I'm hearing Chandler coaching Churchill next year (unconfirmed)

Sorry but Justin Berry has signed with Hastings

Get Kevin Bartlett and the Rules Committee to bring in yet another knee-jerk rule that bans any player suspected of diving for six weeks. Along with the deliberate point rule (never paid unless Ray Chamberlain is trying to get another close-up on tv) and the hands in the back rule (paid...

Allan Chandler off to Moe??? Given the return of Glen Michie.

Chelsea and Chelsea Heights.

It is actually law in Victoria that everyone obtain one. Has been for a couple of years. All umpires are volunteers (despite being paid) so you should only pay for the photo and endorse the app as a Volunteer.

Can someone please advise why Sue Jones has the medal named after her? No disrespect to Sue but surely there would be umpteen Club or local identities more deserving of the medal than a paid office employee of the league?

News is that Glenn Michie is locked in to return to Newborough for 2014. Playing his last year and will travel down each week from Melbourne.

You would be surprised how quickly you can clock the games up. We have some blokes and ladies doing 2 games on a Saturday then backing up for 2,3 even 4 junior games on Sunday. Couple that with mid-week Private School Footy and you can easily umpire 100 games in a year. Me - I have cut back to...

Noticing a trend with Casey League distancing itself more and more from Peninsula and Nepean Leagues. They are having a separate B & F night this year as well. Casey Umpires also seem to be distancing themselves from main SUA group and have renamed themselves CCUA. I am sensing a breakaway...

The great attribute of our game is the rules are interpretive. If a player has had prior opportunity and barges through a pack and gets caught but also there is slight head high contact then which free should be paid? If a junior ump pays holding the ball and (according to The Finger) then the...

agree with all of the above. I still shake my head when a player shoots for goal, misses and hits the behind post. Every AFL umpire will pay this as deliberate OOB yet his INTENT is to kick a score, not put it OOB.

Almost right. A Field Umpire CAN overrule a club appointed Goal Umpire however if the goal umpire is an officially appointed Goal umpire then He alone is the final arbiter of scores. That being said - you will see fieldies, boundaries and goallies conferring together if there is doubt over a...

"If it bleeds we can kill it" apologies to Leigh Matthews quoting Arnie.

Since you are such an expert - I guess we can expect to see you down at umpire training this week to show all us amateurs how it should be done. That's if you can dislodge your size 42 ass from the couch.

When you say he reported you - this doesn't mean you will have to front the tribunal as he does not have this power. What it means is that he sent a report through to the league. Firstly - every umpire has a bad day (even those that have done over 300 games). Have a word to your Umpires Coach...

What was shaping up as a one-horse race has changed dramatically after Ash Eames suffered a year ending (career ending???) knee injury on Saturday at Karingal. Possibly both ACL and PCL knee. Karingal showed how vulnerable the Stonecats may become by kicking the next 6 unanswered and it was only...

I would look at one of the challenging clubs like Karingal, Mt Eliza or Bonbeach. If you go to YCW expect to be playing in the magoos all year however you will get a fair shot at the ones with Karingal or even Pines (who might be the big improver this year). forget Langy or Seaford who only look...

If it doesn't work out you could do worse than take up umpiring. If you want to get a good fitness base and try the next year to play again you will suprise yourself what a good fitness base you will build up. Plenty of blokes run the boundary or blow the whistle for the juniors on a Sunday and...

Sorry Cronos but 18.1g does not apply because calling "play on" by a player is NOT conduct for which a free kick would ordinarily be awarded. 15.10.1 MIGHT apply depending on your interpretation of misconduct. regardless though reporting the player is the definition of overkill.

And of course the clubs who poached and plundered the junior sides of lesser clubs also thrive. Wonder if Seaford are going around all the opposition clubs again this year offering them free boots and payments in exchange for u16's players crossing to the Tigers. Pines are still spewing.

Well I agree with the second part of your post but my view is that it is not the umpires role to do anything but enforce the rules and it is my opinion that as no actual rule was breached then no free kick. I remember seeing an opposition player running from behind a player who had taken a mark...

Sorry but re-read the Time wasting rule. It does not apply. Next you will tell me a player pulling a face at the umpire is abuse. Some players do cross the line in their behaviour but although this player might have taken it right up to the line - he has not crossed it. One could argue...

Duncan Proud apparently taking a few Karingal Bulls with him to Frankston Bombers. will leave a few holes in their senior side

With an attitude like that you would do well in the AFL - we as umpires are there ONLY to enforce the rules using common sense. We are not there to be the centre of attention or impose yourself on the game (as is done in the AFL). The old saying is that you have umpired well if noone noticed you...

Go and re -read the timewasting rule. definitely does not apply. What you should have done is NOT stop the play but have a quiet word at the first break in play and ask the player to stop BUT the player is under no obligation to stop calling play on. If anything it shows great initiative on...

You can't be making up your own rules. Please tell me what law of the game the player contravened by calling play on all the time and how could you justify sending him off? every umpire should reread the rules and rule changes at least once every season. I winder how many coaches or players...