Dale Perkins: Director of Facilities
Hard man to track down Perko. Has been on the committee for at least 6 years to our knowledge but probably more. If there is something to be done, he does it -The can-do person. Build rooms, plumb the showers, plumb the bar, work behind the jump, install the goal posts, clean up the grounds, paint walls, roof rooms, lay carpet, man the BBQ, timekeep, interchange steward, mow the ground, trainer, - you name it. We doubt there is any football club in Oz with a volunteer to match Perko. He is a great family man with wife Heather (a Tiger), daughter Lisa (Collingwood and Dan Skrinis) and son Mark (Collingwood).
Unfortunately Dale, Heather and family suffered the ultimate in tragedy and sorrow when they lost son Lee some years back. The Perkins family and the Broadbeach Footy club honour Lee in an annual game and the award of the Lee Perkins Memorial Medal.
Perko played with the club way back when, sometime in the early 80s. Club statistics from those days are a little hazy, but we would suggest he pulled the boots on for Broady around the 100 mark in both the Magoos and Ones. Probably a Plugger type at one end and a Wes Lofts at the other, you wouldn't want to tangle with Perko on or off the deck. Hint: If you do try it, come at him from his left given he copped an eyeful from a pistol in his early days at the Broadbeach Pub and cannot see bright light from that one. Makes it easier for him to be an absolute one-eyed Collingwood supporter with a man crush on Eddie Everywhere.
A fire sprinkler installer by trade, Perko has travelled up and down the east coast of Queensland plying his thing and returning to base in his beloved Holden Utes to his hobbies of football and power boat racing/skiing, with the latter on the back burner for a few years now. Well known for piling plates with food, Heather and Dale often shower hospitality on friends and club newcomers - he even has Bulldog around - but refrains from the alcohol with his poison of choice being Coke Zero. If not at home, head to the club, he is bound to be there!
Bryan Wilkinson: Committee Member
A life member of the football club, Bryan is the longest serving member on the committee, even he cannot remember when he first started. Wilko is one of those 'a good tall bloke will always beat a good small bloke' types who has more than dabbled in footy, basketball and cricket as a tall bloke should. A native of Barwon Heads area, Bryan's family were and are prominent in the local sports community with a pavillion named after one of his forebears.
We understand Bryan came off the long run and delivered the little red nut with some pace and line and length with pretensions of District cricket. He was a prominent country week performer and likely took the stumps out from under Ian Redpath in his heyday. A Geebung freak, as is wife Nola who keeps the club solvent at Geelong Footabll Jumper auctions, he pulled on the boots at Kardinia Park and in 1964, as a budding champion ruckman, played in the Geelong Ressies Premiership. Dicky knees - that have since been replaced, along with a hip or two - took their toll at the levels required for VFL in those days, and he took off to West Mt Gambier for a total of 138 games, a premiership in 1971 and a B&F in 1972. His only regret playing in a Footscray jumper! Bryan also fancied playing that basket game for talls and won MVP in summer competitions at Mt Gambier in 68/69 and 71/72. Clearly involved in a bit of moonlighting, he also took out the runner-up in the winter comp in 1972.
Coming north around the early eighties, Bryan was attracted to Broadbeach through the horizontal blue and white hoops. He and Nola settled in the area and began a third life in various roles as a tradie, a milk bar owner, university security et al and currently serves, as does Nola with the Department of Corrections collecting bodily fluids. They have raised Toby, a senior sergeant detective at Robina CIB and Kelly, a teacher of Japanese and of some repute at a Brisbane private school, to be good Geelong supporters although Kelly wavers a bit after some time in Steak 'n Kidney. Toby played with Broady - still does in the Old Boys - while Bryan and Nola proudly look after the grandchildren and then wtach them in the juniors program.
A lover of the odd red or two, the odd schooner or three and a roll of the bowls to keep the competitive juices flowing, Bryan is on a one-man crusade to bring back Mitch Andrews. But he is happier at the minute at the prospects for 2011 than he has been for a while.
David Fitzgerald: Sponsorship and Marketing
David is in his first year on the committee and has already made his mark in preparing a mean brohure or two and negotiating some high profile sponsorship. David is a sad sainter, like son James (senior player), but we hasten to add, not related to Ricky Nixon. A self employed Business Valuer and Broker, Fitzy has a history in retailing and business consultancy. He has three 'wonderful' children (one son, 2 daughters) with whom he enjoyed the highlight of his life when all travelled to the USA and Carribean. Fitzy is well travelled having been to Asia, all over Oz and the Shaky Isles.
Fitzy was in Melbourne enjoying the climate when his younger brother John raved about the beautiful Monday, Wednesday the next; the girls; and the beaches. Not a mention of Broadbeach Footy Club! But when he started on a trip around Oz, he found himself unable to leave the coast, the meter maids and the beaches. Now well settled here and welded to his phone.
Fitzy's footy background commenced in 1967 at 8 years old at the Moorabbin Saints followed by St Catherine's Moorabbin, CBC St Kilda, St Pats Ballarat, Caulfield Bears, Palm Beach (only a few games) and finally Mudgeeraba Old Boys. For those of you not familiar with the Caulfield Bears, we suggest that Fitzy's motivation for a run with Tony Jewell and the boys went beyond the deck and into the Cave, a somewhat infamous Sunday night disco in the rooms attended by the who's who of the VFL footy scene and one or two female followers of fashion. His memory goes to cold, wet and windy training nights and games, not kicking enough coffee scrolls, but enjoying being a pest of sorts to the opposition. It was all enough for him to adopt the mantra: 'Learn the hard way', which may explain his interest in Wayne Carey's tome "The Truth Hurts" ! He has much truth to face up to given that his greatest fear in life is the contemplation of another Saints Grand Final loss: toughen up Fitzy.
Ken Skrinis: Committee Member and Joint Board
This is Ken's second year on the committee and wife Merrilee, who sports some amazing earings, is becoming more and more comfortable with his absence from home, particulary when he walks out the door to attend Joint Board committments. A family man to the hilt, Ken has 2 sons, Mathew and Dan (senior player), and daughter Caitland. Ken is first generation Greek Australian whose parents wern't too keen on that rough aussie rules as against the finer points of diving in the part-world game. Fortunately for us, he persisted in the forward pocket for Bellvue Primary and Balwyn High Schools, winning a couple of championships along the way, and secretly sneaking out with his neighbours to go to the footy every weekend. A quirk of fate left him with an unhealthy love of the Essendon FC and later in life he developed an even more unhealthy regard for Jimmy Hird which persist today. Strange family though, with son Dan playing at Southport and supporting Carringbush, while the others not too clear on their favourites.
Ken completed a chippy's apprenticeship after school and wisely continued with further study, culminating in a 5 year part time Diploma of Building at RMIT. He kept himself sane during that period with footy, and peforming at A Grade levels in penant squash and golf before hooking up with Merrilee on the Love Boat in 1980, marrying in 1982 and heading north in the same year. Still fancies himself on the fairways and the Love Boat when he can get away from the rigors of Glenzeil or silent auctions at the footy club.
Ken and Merrilee commenced life in Queensland in the sticks at Guanaba on 8 acres decorated with 1 Dog, 1 Cat, 12 Chooks, 10 Sheep, 2 Cows, adding the 3 kids along the way. A quiet achiever, he was a site foreman on the building of Jupiters Cassino (when he negotiated free ouzos after 10pm for life) and then worked with the Raptis Group, before being taken on as the first ever employee of Glenzeil in 1990. He became a Director in 1992 and took over the company with Brian Gabrial in 2005 when the founding Directors retired. To our benefit the Skrinis family shifted to Broadbeach Waters in 2004.
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