Wednesday, 17 May 2023

George Primrose

Brad BATTIN (Berwick) (09:59): Every community has an absolute legend, and last week we lost a bloody ripper down in Beaconsfield, in Berwick. George Primrose was a living legend through our area. He was known by everyone. I was good friends with his son Anthony, his daughter Tanya and his wife Julie. In more recent times I used to catch up with George at the Tatts agent. We used to go down there, and there was a group of older guys there. It did make me feel pretty young hanging around with this group, whose nicknames were Knackers, Crazy – actually most of them I probably cannot repeat after that. But we used to hang around in there and talk about the wonderful times and the awesome community we are from.

This is a man who in his life never owned a pair of pants, he only ever owned shorts. He gave back to the community. He was always around for everyone, and I know how much he loved his kids. He used to come down and be the goal umpire when we played at Berwick. Now he has gone I can declare he may have cheated a little bit. If a goal looked like it was a goal and it was for Berwick, he gave it to us; if it went the other way, he might have been a bit lenient and give it to us to make sure we would have that win. He is the only man in the world that when he got out there would never, ever go the traditions of the normal goal; everything was thumbs up, because he wanted to make sure that the kids got behind him. George, you are going to be missed. Mate, what you gave back to our community we will never be able to thank you for. I know your kids are going to see it, but to you, mate, it is thumbs up. We are going to miss you and we hope to see everyone celebrate your life this Friday.