Board Members

Keith Hill
President

Having been involved with the Aspley Hornets for more than 35 years, Keith is one of the Hornet’s first Football Life Members.

His experience with the Aspley Hornets started in 1985 and continued as a player until 2003. Throughout these years, Keith played over 200 Senior Men’s games, being successful in many grand finals.

He also coached numerous teams at Aspley, including U10 (1992), U16 Boys (1997 and 2019), and Senior Men (1998 and 2020). In addition, Keith has been involved in the establishment of Aspley’s AusKick program (Coach, 1993 and 1994) and the U17 Girls team (Coach, 2017 and 2018). He was also awarded Club Man of the Year in both 2019 and 2020.

Over the course of his involvement with Aspley, Keith has seen many great players, coaches and administrators pass through the doors of the Hornets, despite other Brisbane clubs being bigger than the Hornets at times.

Keith believes there are three cornerstones of Aspley’s success:

The strong junior player base and successful senior teams, sound economic judgement, strong and demonstrable values of inclusion and community involvement. He is also committed to quality coaching at all levels of football.

In his professional career, Keith has consistently proven his leadership abilities and strong management skills. Having worked as a carpenter, project manager, Senior Estimator and General Manager of large construction companies, Keith now finds himself the owner operator of his own successful small business.

Keith is committed to serving the Aspley Hornets Football Club as Club President in 2021-2022.

Tim Gillespie
Secretary

Tim has been the Company Secretary for the last 21 years. Tim has been involved on the Committee/Board since 1976 with 45 years continuous service. He has held the following positions; Junior Vice President, Senior Vice President, President, Board member and Secretary.

Tim first joined the club in 1974 when his eldest son commenced playing at the Hornets. All three sons player junior football at the Hornets and his grandson began playing in 1999.

He has also been the Secretary of the Old Boys Association/Past Players & Supports Associating since its formation in 1984. Trustee/senior Member since 1985 and Chairman of the building committee from 1995 to 2018 overseeing more than $12m of club development.

In 1986 he was awarded Life Membership.

Also of note; the Best Clubman shield was named in his honour in 1995, the AFL Volunteers Recognition Award for 25 years service in 2003, the prestigious AFL Merit Award for 40 years service in 2015, and Clubs Queensland Award Club Director of the Year 2016.

He has formal qualifications in Advanced Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, his career being in management positions in either manufacturing or sales, with international, national and major companies.

Tim has completed several club-related workshops with DWS Training and Clubs Queensland with at least three on Corporate Governance.

Tim believes organised sport for juniors and youth is beneficial for development in themselves the sport and the community. His goal has always been to develop Aspley Australian Football & Sporting Club into the best performing sporting and social club in the country.

Peter Goeldner
Treasurer

Peter has been an active member of the Aspley Hornets for over 15 years from board level to coaching and was awarded Life Membership status in 2016. He has been an active board member since 2017 and currently holds the position of Club Treasurer.

He started coaching his sons in Auskick at the Hornets in 2009. His coaching resume includes roles from Auskick, Youth (boys and girls) and Seniors (men and women). In 2017, he was awarded the AFLQ QFA Colts Coach of the Year. It has been a huge honour to see many players he coached at Auskick/Youth level now progressing into and playing Senior football at the Hornets and at higher levels.

In 2018, Peter lead the successful application for the elevation of our Women’s program into the QAFLW. This was extremely gratifying and an important milestone for the growth of female football at the Hornets.

Peter holds a Bachelor of Business degree and is an Associate member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand. He has been a Chief Financial Officer for over 20 years with experience across various industries including resources, manufacturing, civil and construction, precision engineering, property and tourism.

Peter Delbridge
Director of Senior Football

My history with the Aspley Hornets started in 1977 with the Under 10’s that was coached by current life member Peter Eyles. I also, had brief stints with senior and master’s football over the years limited by work, study, and family. My involvement continues with my 6 sons all playing with the Hornets from six years of age.

My eldest son, started in 2004 and continues playing last year with the QFA Div. 1 senior side. The other boys range from the U9’s junior football through to youth football and colts this year. During this time, I have coached most of the boys at junior level and assisted with water running, goal umpiring, raffles, and canteen where I can.

Professionally, I have owned and operated my family company Edge Concepts for the last 30 years. I started Edge Concepts in 1991 and it has grown from 1 (me) to a staff of 30. During this time Edge Concepts has become one of the leading metal works contractors in Brisbane and Southeast Queensland for town house and unit developments. We have achieved this through developing lasting mutually beneficial relationships based on honesty and integrity with our customers.

After all my involvement with the club over the years, I believe, it is time to join the board. I have over the years, lobbied (some directors will call it harassed) board members for changes on many issues. Particularly, the pathway for our juniors to senior football. I believe the direction the club is now heading is the best direction for our players and therefor the club.

I would like to join the board to help oversee the continued development of the Aspley Hornets as the ‘ONE CLUB’ family club for all our footballers young and old.

Mal Kerr
Director Of Junior Football

Malcolm and his family have been associated with the Aspley Hornets since his eldest son started Auskick in 2015.  He became the coach of his under 6 team after the transition from Auskick and has been coaching every year since.  Supported by Amanda, Lachlan, Josh and Lucas he has coached and supported coaches in both the junior and youth space for the past few seasons.  He was honoured to receive the Tim Gillespie Clubman of the Year award in 2021.

Malcolm is committed to junior and youth football, ensuring all players are given the opportunity to learn new skills, develop and most importantly enjoy their time at the Aspley Hornets.  He played his junior and youth football at a cross town rival and has a desire to pass on the love of the game he has had since then along with his knowledge of the sport.  He believes that playing sport builds character, team skills, confidence and gives kids a sense of accomplishment.

Malcolm also plays the occasional game with the Aspley Masters and has been an active board member for the past three years, he has helped with the AFL9’s program for the past three seasons and is looking forward to seeing it continue to grow as more juniors become involved.

Professionally Malcolm has been involved in the fire industry for the past 22 years.  After spending 12 years in senior management, he became a partner of Citifire Services who specialise in the design, installation, and certification of fire systems for the construction industry.  Citifire has been an active sponsor with the Aspley Hornets over the past few years sponsoring junior teams and milestone medals.  

Michael Trost
Grounds Director

Mike Trost is self-employed after working within the Telecommunications industry for 42 years. After being employed by Telecom / Telstra for 21 years, Mike took a redundancy in 2002 and started his own company. Mike currently works as self-employed and is starting to wind back for retirement.

Mike has been involved at the Aspley Hornets since 1994 when he moved his family from Central QLD to Brisbane. Mike’s involvement has covered many aspects within the club over this period ranging from Team Manager, Volunteer, and Board Director. Thus, earning the role as Life Member for his continued commitment to the Apsley Hornets.

Mike has endured a 15 year ongoing tenure as a Director for the Aspley Hornets. Currently, his portfolio includes the Director of Facilities and Grounds Maintenance. Mike says “ I have chaired the Disciplinary committee for several years. I would say I am very proud of the efforts, commitment, and dedication many past and current directors have contributed towards our growing club. The changes we have seen within the club over the last 2 decades is rewarding and encouraging for the future direction and planning we are striving to achieve.

My goals at the moment are to enjoy the grandkids and do some caravanning with my wife Julie. We have been married for 42 years and it is time for her to have a bit of relaxation.”

Joanne Waters
Director

I have been involved with the Hornets since 2015 when my oldest son started playing footy. Unfortunately, it is now only my second son who has continued to play this season with a huge love for the sport, playing since just 5 years old. I have filled in as Team Manager every year until 2 years ago when I became heavily involved with the coordination of the club’s First Aid and Ground Marshals for each junior and youth home game.

Since 2020, my role of coordinating volunteers has included not only rostering but also recruitment, timesheet processing, ordering first aid supplies, restocking kits, forms, and other requirements needed for the Hornets volunteer program. During the 2022 season, I was asked to temporarily become a Director of the Board until the 2022 AGM where I was then elected as a full-time Board Member.

I have been employed full-time by the Queensland Ambulance Service since 2004 and now currently work in a Manager’s Operations position. Prior to my role in the QAS, I worked in a number of clinics in both Australia and the United States as an IVF Scientist which ties in with my passion for the club’s first aid volunteer program.

My personal Philosophy is to never stress about things you can not change, if it is out of your control and you have done the best you can, then there is no point stressing.

Brett Howson
Director

Brett and his family have been actively involved in the Hornets for a total of 16 years and in 2020, Brett became the 42nd Life Member of the Aspley Hornets for his contribution to Junior and Youth football.

At the age of 30, Brett decided to take a step back from QAFL football, landing himself right here at the Hornets, where he played a vital role in the 2002 Senior Men’s Premiership team. Brett followed up the following year as Captain/Assistant coach to help defend the flag.

As a coach, Brett has taken on just about every age group from U6’s through to Senior Football with a coaching career here at the Hornets that ventured from 2010 until 2020. In 11 years of coaching, Brett coached 16 teams at the Hornets totalling 268 games. He is well supported by his wife Kathy and two sons, Mitch who is currently in the Hornets Senior Program, and Jake who plays in the U17 Div. 1 team.

Brett believes the key to maintaining sustained success is to truly invest in the foundation of senior football, the upcoming youth players. Brett is looking forward to working and learning from the Hornets QAFLW teams as this is one facet of the game, he has not yet been involved with.

As a profession, Brett is the owner operator of a security consulting and installation business on both domestic and commercial level.