Scott Pendlebury

It was a great moment, Boomer thanking the crowd there.

Pointing to them and saying thank you.

Got the game ball in hand.

Like we did in episode two, time now to once again catch up with Collingwood CEO Craig Kelly to find out just how much goes into a moment like this from the club's perspective.

What does an occasion of this significance mean to the Collingwood Football Club?

It represents everything we're trying to do at the club with this generation of people running the club.

And from the players and the coach and the high performance of the board and everyone, complete alignment about this one club approach and all of us in it together.

It's a great way to just sort of put an exclamation mark and go, bang, this is what we're about.

Put your duffel coat on.

As a bloke that came to this club as a young man, as a guy that won a premiership here, as a bloke that's had a son play at this football club, what will it mean to you as a Collingwood man to see a Collingwood superstar have the record for the most games in the history of the comp?

CEO hat off, duffel coat on.

And I've almost got to put my Eddie McGuire hat on, don't I?

Because I've almost got to say something like that.

Well, that's what he did so wonderfully.

He had his corporate hat on, but he's so passionate about the club.

So passionate.

And our current president, Barry Karp, you know, he basically talks about the shoulders of giants living, you know, standing on shoulders of giants.

And here's a giant who's driven this club through some really interesting times.

And I'd argue the last three to five years he's gone up to a whole new level and brought along with him a group of players that have learnt to know what elite standards are and demanded that they hit those standards.

So what he's done for the club, not just off the field but on the field,