Nickname: Dodger

Occupation/Education: Customer Service associate at masters Home Improvement

Family: Married to Heather with two teenage kids

Umpiring Discipline: Field

Years Umpiring and how old were you when you started: about 13 I was 20 odd

Reason for umpiring: Love of the game

Highlight of umpiring career to date: 1993 2nd div seniors GF, AFL development squad, Golden Whistle

Umpiring goal for next season: a GF

Who had the most influence on your umpiring career and why: Glenn James taught me to enjoy umpiring

Most embarrassing moment on a footy field: Having a black spider on the front of jocks in the rain in white shorts

What training drill do you dread the most: A 2 umpire drill with a semmo.

What is your prematch routine: Get there early get changed early, then run a lap before a rub down and stretch

What is your favourite RDFL ground: Lancefield  a lot of good memories of GFs

Which umpire is:

Smartest: Michael O’Keefe. (Coach extraordinaire! too sucky?)

Most Annoying: The semmos

Funniest: Addam Icely

Most Talented: Nick Luke (dunno why)

Coaches Pet: Obviously umpire of the year C.Stead

If umpire training was the TV show survivor, who would be voted off first and who would win: John Weston off first and then stead last

Hobbies aside from umpiring: Indoor cricket

AFL team: The Western Bulldogs

If you could invite any 5 people around for dinner, who would it be: Father Bob Brown, Ben Roberts – Smith, Kathy Freeman, Bob Hawke and my wife

Which Hollywood actor would play you if they made a movie about you: Jack Black

I enjoy being a part of the Riddell umpires because: 

We are a close knit association, professionally coached and professionally run.