Sorry, all for not having a white knight last round, due to illness and travel I wasn’t able to post anything. This week will be a combined rd 8 & 9.
We hope most of you enjoyed your week off last week and are rested for our run into finals. We have now moved back to Moorleigh for the remainder of the season. With that we now have our canteen open upstairs, we ask that you fill in any food request at the start of the evening as you sign in (next to the books on the table downstairs). Help support the association and come upstairs and grab a soft drink at the end of the night.
At keysborough in Rd 8 an umpire/mentor could be heard or rather not heard trying to mentor reserve umpires with no voice. Before moving off to their own game where luckily as a boundary umpire a voice isn’t 100% necessary.
Given that there was only one field with games last weekend it was the week to ensure that you were on time. One of our field umpires, Elise, thought that turning up ten minutes late was ok as no one would find out. Unfortunately for her a coach was at the field.
It’s great to see our young goal umpires getting a helping hand from mentors. At keysborough in Rd 8 it was fantastic to see Robin (one of the goal umpire observers) on the field during the first quarter helping the young field umpire out.
At Dingley in Rd 9 all the umpires for the senior match could be seen outside there change room, well and truly away from the door. It turns out ex AFL goal umpire Luke Walker decided to take a dump in the umpires rooms. Unfortunately for him with the rooms being smaller then the ones he’d be used to at the AFL, it stunk out the room and sent the umpires scrambling outside for fresh air.
There are certain key items that we ask all our umpires walk out with. For goalies this does include the cap, unfortunately for Brett NorthGage he happened to walk out during Rd 8 without his cap.
A sight could be seen on the boundary with a Mr Williamson running out in fluro orange shoes. While this may have been ok with our orange uniforms, with our change to our new green uniforms it makes this stand out even more.
Good luck to all running this week and in the lead up to finals. With the school holidays coming up we ask all umpires to let their coaches know if you are going to be unavailable during this time with in the next two weeks