Odds are you have seen his face around town.
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A face that is currently overgrown with a bushy jet black beard. Together with his tattoos and nuggety frame, Luke Brown looks like a character from Sons of Anarchy.
But it's the motivation behind the unkempt facial hair and body ink that shows his true character.
You see underneath the rugged exterior is 'Browny' the family man. Since the day his sweetheart Kristin Dyson gave birth to their first daughter Paige, he has prided himself on taking care of his loved ones. Seven years later, he and Kristin have three beautiful girls, whose names - Paige, Breanna and Charli are all written on his forearm linked by a pink rope.
He literally wears his heart on his sleeve.
"I don't want to imagine where I'd be if I didn't meet Kristin and get to where we are today. There's no way known I'd be doing as well as I am," the 33-year-old said.
"But a house full of girls, they couldn't understand why I wanted a boy dog," he laughed.
To support his family he has had a number of jobs, from running his own construction business to working night shifts at the Club House Hotel. Presently he looks after the full time maintenance of Horton House.
So that explains the tattoos but what about the lumberjack look? Luke explained to the Tribune that the flourishing growth is the result of his second love - rugby league. More specifically it's an agreement between the players and coaching staff of the Yass Magpies first-grade side, who he manages, not to shave until the end of the season.
Aside from his position in the senior team, he has an even more important role within the club, as coach of the Magpies under 16s. A team he is now coaching for the third year in succession. He also recently became a qualified referee and aims to start officiating games in the next three weeks.
As 'Mr Fix It' at Horton House during the week, he rarely has a free moment.
"I have Monday and Wednesday night training for the 16s with games on Friday night; and then I help out the first-grade on Tuesdays and Thursdays with their games on Saturdays. So the only real day that I get off is a Sunday but now I'm going to be refereeing."
"[Kristin] hates it, she's ready for a divorce," he laughed.
"But she knows I love my footy and she knew that before we got married so she's learnt to deal with it."
The die-hard Sydney Roosters supporter, who grew up in Harden, started coaching his team when they were under 14s - three years ago, to try and bring some stability to the Yass Magpies junior ranks.
"It was always my goal to be with the boys and get them through and get them ready for senior football," he explained.
"I found out a bit of background about how Yass wasn't getting numbers for 15s and 16s, they were all dropping out, going off and doing other sports or not playing sport at all. So I wanted to be able to build a team and be able to teach them and get them ready for senior football, not go through and then only have two or three blokes ready to play senior footy.
"It makes me feel good knowing that they struggled to get all these numbers for previous years and weren't able to get a team into that age group and then all of a sudden we haven't forfeited a game and I've got probably six or seven blokes that could already handle senior footy if called on."
Greg Smith president of the Yass Magpies, has taken some of the pressure off Luke by co-coaching the under 16s, and knows him better than most.
"He's very good at bonding with the kids, he has taken them on camping and fishing trips and they want to play for him," he said.
"Over the last three years he has really earned the kids respect and he gets a lot out of them."
So if you see him around town why not have a chat to him about the footy - specifically how good the Sharks win was on Saturday night because the only thing that comes close to the love he has for his family is his love for the Roosters and rugby league.