He played more than 250 senior games for the club and was on the committee long before his playing days were over.

“I was first joined the committee int he 1980s,” Woodhead said. “I can remember us applying for grants for new facilities all the way back then, to see how far we have come since then is amazing.”

Woodhead said his favourite memories as a footballer was when he captained the reserves team to a premiership in the 1980s.

“We were still playing in the Horsham District League at that point,” he said.

As the club’s football director Woodhead often enjoys setting himself up in the new Coughlin Park Community Centre.

When he needs to get work done he can lock himself away in the committee room and get all the paperwork done.

“One of the other big changes is how everything is electronic now,” Woodhead said.

“In some ways its good and it can make things easier at the end of the day. It is still nice to flick through pages of the old scorebooks though.”

He has also been a big supporter of the club’s first ever female side this season.

He said that was something his daughter would have loved to be part of.

“She was always at my side helping me,” he said. “She did not have a lot of interest in netball but loved footy, unfortunately she was just too old to play this season.”

There has only been a few years Woodhead has not been at the club since he started playing as a junior.

“My last year of junior I went somewhere else to play because we had so many numbers at the club,” he said.

“I was back at home at the Saints the following season though.”

When Woodhead lost his son tragically young he said the support he received from the club was second to none.

“This club has some special people, every club does,” he said. “The way a club can get around one of its own in the bad times is amazing.”

First-year club president Mick Morris said Woodhead had provided him with great support.

“He’s always offering up advice,” he said.

“Sometimes I might head the wrong direction but he will straighten me up.”

Morris said it was important for clubs to have volunteers like Woodhead.

“He’s just a guy that loves the footy club, it is such a big part of his life,” he said.

“Whatever the Horsham Saints need he will be there to lend a hand.”

Woodhead said there were plenty of volunteers at the Horsham Saints who would put their hands up to play their part. He said in the past the club had been reluctant to spread the load at times.

“If someone puts their hand up and wants to help you have got to let them do that, and you have to support them in that role so they can do it well,” he said.

“The amount of volunteer work that is put in at this club is hard to comprehend. A whole lot of it goes unrecognised behinds the scenes.”

After all the years of hard work Woodhead has put in the club he has only now started to wind back.

“I do what I do because I love doing it, if you are going to do it you have to love it,” he said. “But I think it’s time for me to get out of the office and actually watch a bit more football.

“Hopefully there is someone else who will step up and enjoy the role as much as I have, I know there are plenty of quality people at the club who could.”