UMPIRING 
Program Co-Ordinator
Darryl Sinclair (SPJFC Coaching Coordinator & State Umpire Coach) Match-Day Coach
Beau Wardman (WAFL Umpire and former Player SPJFC)
The South Perth Junior Football Club undertook a new program in 2008 in which players from the Under 14’s junior team’s umpired matches in the nine, ten and eleven age groups. The reason for the use of the players was to assist the Perth District in filling umpiring vacancies to games and to assist the player’s football knowledge and life skills. The program was designed to give the players the basic understanding of how to umpire a junior match and specifically looking just at the modified rules of nine, ten and eleven age groups. The players attended an introduction to umpiring seminar conducted by Umpire Development Officer Paul Pitchers and further support was provided by WAFL Umpire Beau Wardman and SPJFC Coaching Coordinator Darryl Sinclair. The seminar was a two hour session with the following format: 1) Introduction 2) Expectations 3) Preparation 4) Commencement of the game 5) Whistle 6) Indications 7) Positioning 8) Observation 9) Running The inaugural season for the player program was a success with 6 players umpiring games every week at Ernst Johnson Oval in South Perth. Two umpires also participated in the Perth District Carnival held in August. The success of the program comes from the SPJFC Committee, Coaches, parents and spectators who supported the program believing that the program would assist the players and umpires in their development of the game. It is envisaged that other junior clubs will follow and that all junior games from 9’s to 12’s will be umpired by players from higher age groups in the future.
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