Scott Pendlebury

4-3-3, that's when you bring it out.

That's a good point.

Hang on a minute.

I appreciate the game for what it is so every week regardless if it's this week or not I always take a moment to look around at the stands, find my family, try and say g'day.

I just try and reflect you know we're all little kids inside that just love the game and I'm so fortunate to have played for as long as I have.

I always say to the young guys that ever play their first game

One bit of advice from me, it's got nothing to do with the game because you're good enough, but when you get out here for the first time, just look around, take a moment, just to take it all in because it's pretty cool, you're retrieving your dream.

Welcome to the Record Breaker.

Rightio, it is time for a history lesson, but don't worry, don't skip forward, don't move over this part.

This will not be your rather dry, old school, boring textbook type of history.

No, this is the history of the game's record that our man Pendles is chasing and how the significance of the record and how it's been celebrated and reported on has changed enormously.

So officially, from what we can gather, that's a disclaimer in case we've got anything wrong.

From what we can gather, 14 chaps have held the VFL AFL record.

With Charlie Panham, who played for Collingwood and Richmond, the first player listed to play 100 games of VFL footy, Charlie finished up on 193 games.

So he's our first record holder.

From here, we're going to skip forward to the last five record holders.

So I must say at this point, there is some confusion about some of these numbers and they have been retrospectively adjusted.

This is due to state of origin football as origin footy could actually be played in the day on the same day a VFL game was on.

So you might play for your state rather than your club that day.

So players were given credit for the games they missed for playing for their state.