Latrobe Valley Express | Just one more game.
Scott Pendlebury will join the exclusive AFL 400 game club this week.
The Collingwood superstar is expected to suit up for game 400 against the old enemy, Carlton on Saturday night.
The game is set to attract a crowd of 90,000 or more, which could be one of the biggest home-and-away crowds of the AFL era.
Pendlebury will become the sixth player to reach 400 AFL games, following Brent Harvey (who played a record 432), Michael Tuck (426), Shaun Burgoyne (407), Kevin Bartlett (403) and Dustin Fletcher (400).
Pendlebury has played his entire AFL career for Collingwood, after being taken at Pick 5 in the 2005 National Draft.
While Sale was his hometown, he spent most of his draft year on Morwell Recreation Reserve representing Gippsland Power.
Pendlebury had given up an AIS basketball scholarship the year before, much to the delight of long time Gippsland Power Manager, Peter Francis.
“He was on our radar for a long time through the under 15s and 16s but he didn’t play as an under 15 or 16, he came in his 17th year,” Francis recalled.
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