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    by CALLIE WATSON
    UMPIRING is almost always the main topic of chatter when the Button family discusses football at the end of each weekend. But the Paradise brood rarely whinges about how its beloved Port Adelaide was robbed by the men in orange.

    bt Tim Williams
    ONE Sunday, Corey Bowen was umpiring in front of a paltry SANFL crowd at windswept Noarlunga Oval.
    A week later, he could barely hear himself think amidst 50,000 screaming fans in the cauldron of the MCG.
    Bowen, who grew up in Para Hills, called his first AFL game, between Melbourne and Essendon, on Sunday, July 11.


    "A recent training night held at the Two Wells oval where 60 umpires attended was a resounding success", said Patrick Willis SANFL Umpiring Development Manager.

    Barossa Light & Gawler and the North Eastern Football league created history recently by having female field and boundary umpires at their games.

    By Mark Hardham with Matthew Agius.
    The 2010 SAPSASA Football Carnival has again provided a great atmosphere to develop young umpiring talent after a strong crop of first-year umpires were given the opportunity to hone their skills across the week-long tournament.

    On April 17th and 18th, the KNTFL recently held an umpiring weekend in Naracoorte to continue the promotion of club umpiring.

    Northern Zone high schools in Port Pirie, Port Augusta and Whyalla were visited recently by 2 AFL umpires and the SANFL Umpiring Development team.

    The annual AFL Umpiring roadshows have wrapped up ahead of the 2010 football season with the South Australian National Football League Umpiring Development team travelling to the far south-east and the ‘Iron Triangle’ in the 2010 recruiting campaign.



    By Matthew Agius

    During the final week of February, the SANFL Umpiring Department commenced a promotional campaign within South Australian universities, with a view to increase umpire numbers ahead of the 2010 football season.


    On the final weekend of January, nearly twenty-five umpiring supervisors and coaches from throughout South Australia convened at AAMI Stadium and the new Adelaide Football Club training and entertainment facility for the 2010 AFL National Coaches Conference.


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