Collingwood legend Scott Pendlebury is in line to be rested next week despite his herculean Anzac Day.<\/p>\n
Pendlebury played one of the greatest games of his career against Essendon on Saturday, accumulating 43 disposals, 19 score involvements and two goals. <\/p>\n
The display lifted the soon-to-be games record holder to a peerless four Anzac Day Medals, taking outright ownership of the tally he previously shared with James Hird.<\/p>\n
But with a five-day break before Hawthorn on Thursday night, Pendlebury is \u201cunlikely\u201d to play.<\/p>\n
\u201cI won\u2019t make that (decision) now, but I would probably think you\u2019re unlikely next week,\u201d Collingwood coach Craig McRae said alongside Pendlebury post-game.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got a five-day turnaround, we\u2019ll make decisions early in the week but we\u2019ll see how he pulls up.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe probably had a conversation about being a maybe, maybe not, he had a lot of time on ground which is great for today but not next week.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll assess that during the week.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pendlebury\u2019s second goal sparked a \u201cPendles\u201d chant from the Collingwood faithful.<\/p>\n
Much like the supporters, McRae said he was \u201cin awe\u201d of the evergreen 38-year-old.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s played many good ones, I know stats wise it\u2019s one of the best,\u201d McRae said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was saying to the players on the bench and I openly share this because I say it inside our four walls: I don\u2019t want to be older and greyer and not appreciate this man here.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat we witnessed today was, you know, he\u2019s a legend of our game and legend of our footy club.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo do that at 38 or whatever he is, we have no barriers on age and no ceiling on performance. He\u2019s remarkable, every time I watch him perform I am in awe.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pendlebury has been Collingwood\u2019s Swiss Army knife for much of his 431-game career.<\/p>\n
But he kicked his second goal after adopting the role as a deep forward late in the game.<\/p>\n
The shift was made by Pendlebury, who wanted to grant a teammate\u2019s wish and get one up on an old friend.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was actually Beau (McCreery) kept saying he wants to do centre bounce, so I just said if you want to do centre bounce just tell me and I\u2019ll go forward,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cArchie Roberts, I actually coached Archie at Haileybury four years ago, we won a flag together.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I seen he was on me, I thought I\u2019ll take him deep and the APS chat has lit up about that little match-up so I won\u2019t let Arch live that one down.\u201d<\/p>\n
At one stage, Pendlebury was trying to get away from the footy.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like the way we played today set the game up, defend really well, I am happy to just be a cog in the machine that is our football club and our team,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was saying to Jordy (De Goey) there late, even when I was trying to get away from the ball, it still had a way of finding me, so it was one of those days for me where it just kept bouncing my way. At 38, you take those days.\u201d<\/p>\n