Jesse Schmidt is looking forward to a lifetime of half-price schooners.
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Rumour has it that's the reward when a 20-year involvement with a Port Macquarie footy club results in a life membership being handed out at the club's annual awards night.
Schmidt played his first game for the Magpies as a 13-year-old and while he hasn't left, he says it's a good club to be locked into.
"They say when you're a life member of the footy club, the sponsor gives you fifty percent off your schooners," he laughed.
The 33-year-old said it was a honour and a humbling experience to now be alongside some of the Magpies' great names.
Even if he wasn't sure whether he should be there.
"I didn't even know that it was something which was going to be bestowed upon me so I feel completely humbled by it all and a little bit in awe to be honest," he said.
"But it's a good club to be locked into."
Following the birth of sons Bodhi and Rory, Schmidt has started to appreciate the family-orientated nature of the club.
It means his boots might have to be passed down through the generations.
"It's not only about the cold schooner at the end of the game," he said.
"It's the mateship, the common interests and doing things just for the love of it. We've always been a club that never paid our players and all the players who want to be there are there.
"It's one of those places that all revolves around the love of the game. It's now a lot more about the wives, partners, girlfriends and families.
"The family-orientated aspect of the club is something which is important to me now I have my own."
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