Smithton butcher who rose to fame on MasterChef helping his local football club

The butcher from Smithton affectionately known as Pezza is using his recent success to help his much loved Saints. Watch the video >>

Masterchef’s Josh ‘Pezza’ Perry is using his recent TV cooking success to spread the word far and wide that the Circular Head Football Club is looking for a senior coach.

Playing, coaching and supporting the Saints is a generational thing for the Smithton butcher.

He has previously played and coached under-aged sides, his son plays seniors and his father also coached at the club.

Smithton butcher owner Josh Perry is appearing on the newest season of MasterChef. Picture: Tin Smigielski.

The MasterChef runner-up took to Instagram on Thursday in a video spreading the message of the club’s hunt for a “passionate coach”.

“Bit of a different post today, just throwing one out there for our local Smithton Football Club … the last few years we’ve been down as a club, towards the bottom [of the competition] and I think it’s time we move on up,” Pezza said.

“We’re seeking an interested, passionate coach. Think if we can throw it out there and get someone from the mainland out there to this nice, chilled lifestyle.”

He said it would be a great opportunity for a coach wanting to push their career further in a two or three year opportunity to take the club to the next level.

Pezza is part of a committee of ex-players and coaches to source a coach for the club.

Josh Perry with his award-winning bacon at Smithton. PICTURE CHRIS KIDD

Saints president Grant Jackson said the butcher had offered to post the video to his 26k Instagram following.

“You never know who you might reach out to,” Jackson said.

He confirmed the club was looking far and wide for their next coach after school teacher Aaron Tuxworth lead them for most of last season.

“When you’re a small community it’s good to bring people in with a skill set in,” he said.

“We do have people with those skills here but it’s always good to have a few more … we’ve got to add to what we’ve got.

“We’re an isolated area that needs locals committed and on board for the club to run … but you always need assistance from outside areas.”

Since the club re-entered the North-West Coast’s premier competition, the NWFL, in 2022 on field success for the senior men’s side has been limited with three wooden spoons.

Last season the Saints were winless and impacted to injuries to key players, including a knee injury halfway through the year to three-time Baldock medallist Sam Douglas.

Originally published as Smithton butcher who rose to fame on MasterChef helping his local football club