michael mike perry is a former australian rules football player who played in the vfl between 1965 and 1969 for the richmond football clubeducated at scotch college mike played two seasons for old scotch collegians in the victorian amateur football association 1963 and 1964 38 games he won their best and fairest trophy each season and was selected for the vafa representative side in 1964 at 20 years of agerecruited by richmond in 1965 he broke his jaw in the round 3 match against st kilda his second senior match and did not play another senior match that season he eventually became a fixture at centrehalfback and fans got used to seeing his mop of red hair flying above the pack as well as being delighted by his tenacious clearing dasheshe was tall strongly built and had wonderful judgement his ball sense was quite remarkable and he always made rather hard tasks seem much simpler than they wereby 1967 he was a fixture in the richmond side at centrehalfback he was selected in a victorian state team and played in richmonds first premiership team since 1944 when richmond beat geelong 1618 114 to 1515 105he played the entire 1968 and 1969 seasons for richmonds senior side missing richmonds 1969 grand final winning team because of a suspension for striking footscrays tad joniec in the last homeandaway match of the seasonalthough he was unable to play any more senior grade vfl due to an injury he continued to play satisfactorily at a lower level for a number of years 1970 richmond reserves 1971 richmond reserves including the 1971 reserves premiership thus from 1965 to the end of 1971 mike had played 1 victorian representative game 53 senior games and 45 reserve games 1972 dandenong football club 11 games 19761977 portland captaincoach 36 games 19781979 power house vafa football club captaincoach 19801984 old geelong grammarians vafa football club captaincoachincluding his time with old scotch collegians and his vafa and vfl selection he played altogether 281 games in his career continuing to play until he was 40