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Luke Brown (Adelaide) will pass the total number of games that star full forward (and heartthrob) Tony Modra played for the Crows between 1992 and 1998.
Modra was a highly decorated player who won a Coleman Medal in 1997 and made the All-Australian team twice. A sensational mark, Modra won mark of the year three times and goal of the year in 1995.
He was Adelaide’s leading goal scorer five times and Fremantle’s once (1999) in his three years there. Brown will also pass Matthew Clarke and equal Scott Stevens, who – after 4 years at Sydney – served the Crows well from 2004 to 2011.
Collingwood’s Steele Sidebottom continues to climb the list and this week will equal total games played by Ted Rowell, Bill Twomey and Paul Williams – three Collingwood favourites.
Rowell started his career at Collingwood in 1901 and did not finish there until 1915. In between, he played in Western Australia, stood out of the game for a year, and acted as playing coach for the 12 games in 1907 and 1908!
Bill Twomey first played for the Magpies and didn’t finish until 1958, along the way winning the club’s Copeland Trophy, playing in the 1953 premiership and captaining the club in 1957.
Greater Western Sydney’s Captain Callan Ward has played the same number of games as Gold Coast Sun’s Jarrod Harbrow despite the Giant’s having played one less year of AFL football.
The fact that Greater Western Sydney has appeared in the finals, but Gold Coast has not, goes some way to explain this apparent discrepancy. However, the number two player at Gold Coast (Tom Lynch) has played more games than the number two player at Greater Western Sydney (Tom Scully). This is more a tribute to Ward’s fitness and durability.
At Fremantle, Michael Walters will move above Des Headland and Danyle Pearce. Then, he will jump Tendai Mzungai.
Cameron Sutcliffe will pass both Zac Clarke and Steven Dodd. Zac Clarke was born in the United States of America and played originally for the Oakleigh Chargers.
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A tall (203cm) ruckman, he was drafted by Fremantle in the 2008 National Draft, and made his debut at the Dockers in 2009 where he played every year until he was delisted at the end of the 2017 season.
Steven Dodd was recruited from East Fremantle in 2004 and returned to the club when his AFL career at Fremantle Dockers ended in 2010.
The battle of the big cats (Richmond Tigers versus Brisbane Lions) at the MCG on Saturday will see Dayne Zorko expand his reputation when he equals Clark Keating’s total games this week.
A Gold Coast player (before the AFL team was formed), Keating played one year at the Brisbane Bears and the rest of his career at Brisbane Lions (1997-2006) during the club’s most successful era where they won three premierships in a row (2001-2003) and finished runners-up in 2004.
At 197cm and 103kg, Keating was a big unit and awarded Life Membership by the Lions despite not playing the requisite 150 games.
At Richmond this week, superstar Dustin Martin continues his upward trajectory equalling the number of games played by Allan Geddes.
After three years at Williamstown in the VFA, Geddes moved to Richmond in 1925 and was considered by many to be one of the finest wingers to ever play the game.
He stayed at the club until 1935, winning the Tiger’s best and fairest, equalling second in the Brownlow Medal, and captaining the club in 1927, 1928 and 1930.
He lost all four grand finals he appeared in, but was a member of two premiership teams in 1931 and 1934.
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