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WHISTLE BLOWER 2015 - Young Guns selected for National Carnival & Getting to know Peter Elliott25/7/2015
This week has seen 2 of our umpires take part in the Australian School Sports carnival being held in Geelong. Will Ross (Field) and Daniel Robinson (boundary) are a couple of our up and coming umpires who were selected to take part in this weeklong event.
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 Geelong Umpires Steve Guarnaccia (middle) before the the AFL Vic Country vs VAFA clash last Saturday at Queen Elizibeth Oval in Bendigo. With only the GDFL and a handful of Colts games last weekend, you would have noticed a lot of our umpires running around across all games over the weekend. We had some of our experienced umpires running with 1st and 2nd year umpires to help develop their skills leading in to the later part of the season. It has been great to see some of our guys put their hand up to double or triple up on games to ensure we are helping our new umpires out to improve and learn when they are getting started.
 On behalf of the Board of Management and all members we send our deepest condolences to Phil Walsh’s family and friends. What we saw with clubs linking arms in a circle after games on the weekend was a powerful.
On Monday night one of our past umpires and Patron for the Geelong Umpire, Brett Allen, along with our assistant goal umpires coach Colin Hood, were in inducted in to the AFL Umpires Hall of Fame.
This Weekend the Geelong Umpires celebrate their 80th Anniversary as an organisation and officiating football in the Geelong Region. From humble beginnings of five men seated on fruit boxes in the local pub back in 1935, to becoming one of the strongest umpiring organisations in Australia, we say thank you to all of our past and present umpires who have donned the white, orange and now yellow uniform.
CALLING ALL PAST AND PRESENT MEMBERS!
Next weekend The Geelong Football Umpires’ League will celebrate their 80th year of service to local football since being established in 1935. To celebrate this milestone the Board of Management has a weekend of activities for all past and present umpires to attend. 2015 has been the year for big milestones for our umpires. At the start of the year we celebrated Noel Hooper umpiring his 1400 match. Last weekend another of our Life Members Darren Baensch umpired his 600 game at Barwon Heads. Darren was able to talk a couple of past umpires and legends of the GFUL, Murray Fanning and Mark Bushfield out of retirement to run with him for the game. This weekend another Life member, Peter Schilder will bring up game number 500. Both of these guys have given so much to the association with Darren being a past Field Umpires Assistant Coach and Peter helping out on the Board as well as our New Umpire Welcoming Program.
Did you know that to cover every single game of Football across the Geelong Region with the bare minimum, 2 field, 2 boundary and 2 Goal umpires, we would need over 700 umpires each week! Currently our membership is 379, which is the highest it has ever been in our 80 year history.
WHISTLE BLOWER 2015 - Up coming 80th Celebration Weekend and Remembering Life member Dennis Felder31/5/2015 TO ALL PAST AND PRESENT UMPIRES!
The Geelong Football Umpires’ League will celebrate their 80th year of service to local football since being established in 1935. To celebrate this milestone the Board of Management has a weekend of activities for all past and present umpires to attend. This weekend the AFL celebrates Community Umpire Round. This round is to thank all Umpires across Australia and acknowledge how important Umpires are to grass roots football. AFL Umpires have been attending local umpiring associations across the country to help promote umpiring as well as running training sessions. Community Umpires will also have the opportunity to walk out on to the field before a game and join in the warm up with the umpires.
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Each week during the season AFL Barwon Regional Director of Umpiring Jock Hillgrove will post an article which is also published in the local football record. 
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