[2] Flynn's appointment to the two Melbourne Cricket Ground Tests in the 1894–95 season proved uncontroversial.
[4] Although he had umpired the New South Wales v Victoria matches at Sydney in the four preceding seasons and had umpired a Test there in 1892, Flynn was refused permission to travel to Sydney by his employer in Melbourne, the Fitzroy Cricket Club, for whom he was the groundsman.
The refusal provoked a walk-out by the players at the Fitzroy club as well as seeing editorials written in newspapers.
[6] After standing in the Melbourne Test match, Flynn was reported to have been appointed as a groundsman at the East Melbourne Cricket Club; later in 1895, there was a report of him taking the same role at the WACA ground at Perth; but by the end of the year he had left cricket and taken up the running of a hotel in Charters Towers, Queensland, a goldmining boom town at the time.
[7][8][9] At the time of his death in Charters Towers, Queensland in 1931, he was reported to have been the manager of a meat works.