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Scott Pendlebury's Celebration - The Best Bits | The Means Test with Adam Simpson! (25.05.26)
25 May 2026
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Chapter 1: What highlights from Scott Pendlebury's celebration are discussed?
Now, back to Whiteley. Hollywood supporters stand and wave their placards. SP 433. For two decades, they have lived their lives in unison with their champion player. Unplugged, stop and play. That's amazing.
That is quite something.
That is brilliant. Wow. Well done. That is awesome. Pendlewood gives them a double thumbs up, thanks them for everything. All eyes were on him. It was a lovely moment. The perfect fusion of fan and player demonstrated for us.
The best bits. Jack texts through, I took my son and daughter to the G on Saturday. They're 32 and 28 and have basically grown up with Pendles from game one through to game 433. A truly amazing, emotional day.
More admiration for the pies after the weekend, just on the whole buildup. I was a bit skeptical and I still, I just wouldn't have done it. It was just, there's too much, um, to think that bigger picture and, um, embrace the whole, uh, piece. I just thought it was well done from the club point of view.
And it had to be ticked off by Pendlebury first to go, okay, well, this is going to be about me a fair bit. He looked exhausted, didn't he? Yes. Halfway through the second quarter, he was exhausted. Um, so, but, uh, It was just a perfect storm. So did the umpire say, listen, let's just stop. Let's kick in.
The ball was in the goal square and full credit just to let it go. Just told the player kick in and just hold it for a tick. Wow. And just let that 30 seconds unfold. So my view was always whatever felt right to the Collingwood people was going to be right on the day. It was their celebration. 90,000 of them came for it. And it was perfect from start to finish the way that they staged it.
Now, what happened within the game was that's separate. The way they staged it, the running out with all the significant people through his footy journey, plus the 400 club, there to greet him, banner, giant oversized banner, which fits in with the tradition of what happened with Kevin Bartlett and Michael Tuck. The moment the Collingwood fans had, which looked spectacular around the ground.
It was just so heartfelt. And then the carry off at the end. It was beautifully, the pageantry of it was perfect.
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Chapter 2: How did Pendlebury's journey resonate with fans during the event?
This is what I can't separate. The staging it, saying that's separate to the game. I can't compute in my brain about how does it not connect to performance. And, I mean, they won. Yeah. So yeah, the competitor in you thinks, well, how did we do both? And they did. So mission accomplished. Well done. Tip your hat. Couldn't have done it any better.
But the game itself and the ripple post this game about some of the carnage, unfortunately, that happened late, which- We'll come to that. We'll get to that. And then West Coast turned up. I did text my old mate, Tim Gossage, saying this could be a hundred pointer. Looking at the magnitude of the game and thinking, geez, these guys aren't ready for that. And then I deleted the text after. I did.
I deleted it. After the first two minutes, I've realised, hang on, no, no, there's some go in this. Totally. And they tagged Penelbury, which that's, how good's that? I mean, as much as you'd, even Collingwood supporters would tip your hat to some of the strategy from West Coast. They were there to win and disrupt things.
And then the Harley Reid, the first fend off, which Penelbury got his own back late. So just the theatre of that whole day, it just doesn't happen very often. So well done to everyone, including West Coast.
That was the best bit.
Yeah.
Right, we've got a lot to work our way through. North Melbourne's comeback, you're on the call for that, so we'll go deep there on some of the boxcraft that was involved, the hectic finish between the Bulldogs and Melbourne and all that was at stake there, and a bit of PFI that was always going to come from the Geelong-Sydney game.
So how deep do we take what happened down the highway in round 11 between two of the contenders? Adam Simpson and the Monday Means Test continues next.
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