MURRAY BIRD

Word from the Bird

Former AFL umpire, former AFL player manager, and former Brisbane rails bookmaker, founder of Status Sport and Interchanger

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

  • 17 years as an AFL employee in Queensland.
  • 1st Queenslander to field umpire AFL/VFL football
  • 43 of the best umpired games of AFL football – ever.
  • 0 votes for ‘Diesel’ Williams in a 45 possession match – costing him a third Brownlow Medal
  • 8 years as a player manager, sport consultant
  • 1st class honours master of sports management at Griffith University
  • 1 year as AFLPNG General Manager
  • 9 years as founder of Interchanger – software used by 11 AFL clubs and 500 community teams around Australia
  • 54 years as a passionate Queenslander
  • 39 failed relationships in the last 10 years
  • 7 years as a rails bookmaker in Brisbane
  • 3487 hard luck punting stories
  • 213 good luck punting stories
  • 1st person to coin the phrase “the punt giveth and the punt taketh away”