Sign up now!<\/a><\/p>\nAn emotional Stewart teared up when asked about his career highlights, which beyond the 2022 premiership, sits very close to home.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s hard to look at them (in the press conference). Running out with those two for my 150th was special; I\u2019ll cherish that moment on the weekend. I think when I played in my 100th game it was just (his eldest child). It was a bit overwhelming doing it the first time, but I\u2019m just going to soak it all in.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be out on the MCG against Collingwood with my kids is just going to be amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sharing a magic milestone at the sporting colosseum on Saturday night is Collingwood stalwart Scott Pendlebury, who will equal Brent Harvey\u2019s all-time V\/AFL games record with his 432nd appearance at the top level.<\/p>\n
His Magpies teammate Pat Lipinski will also play his 150th match at the top level, as Stewart flagged in his media conference.<\/p>\n
Scott Pendlebury is tackled by Tom Stewart during Collingwood and Geelong’s Round 18 match at the MCG on July 12, 2024 (Photo by Robert Cianflone\/Getty Images)Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cYou talk about poster boys, he\u2019s the poster boy for longevity. His footy nouse, IQ, his smarts and the way he obviously prepares for the game is second to none,\u201d he said of Pendlebury.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou walk out alongside blokes like Patrick Dangerfield and Joel Selwood, and play against blokes like \u2018Pendles\u2019 and Dustin Martin; it\u2019s a pretty amazing era of footy to play, and he\u2019s right up at the upper echelon of that … I\u2019m glad to share the field with him again.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked as to how he himself was faring physically after an interrupted 2025, Stewart replied: \u201cLast year was really challenging, obviously through injury and the concussion towards the end of the year. The club gave me a lot of space and time to refresh mentally and physically \u2014 I\u2019ve come back in really good shape.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think my advantage is probably the position that I play … as long as I\u2019m contributing in a positive way and having the impact on the group that I want to, I\u2019ll play for as long as I can.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are few modern success stories in the AFL quite like that of Tom Stewart. When Stewart runs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,268268,64,63,689,55,639,156828,235503,10133,317662,42266,119337,317654,317656,317655,317657,13658,13659,2105,317659,20865,317660,102478,317664,52193,647,317661,677,104336,39209,230492,317665,317658,668,182300,3247,150672,19083,85,12113,15702,317663,660,176217],"class_list":["post-657018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-all-time-record","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-brent-harvey","tag-career-highlights","tag-collingwood-magpies","tag-defining-defenders","tag-dustin-martin","tag-eldest-child","tag-elite-awareness","tag-epic-triple-milestone","tag-footy-nouse","tag-games-milestone","tag-geelong","tag-geelong-cats","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-intercept-king","tag-joel-selwood","tag-left-field-rookie-selection","tag-matthew-scarlett","tag-mature-age-marvel","tag-media-conference","tag-melbourne","tag-modern-success","tag-oceania","tag-pat-lipinski","tag-patrick-dangerfield","tag-poster-boys","tag-precision-ball","tag-premier-intercept-players","tag-press-conference","tag-quiet-moments","tag-robert-cianflone","tag-scott-barbour","tag-scott-pendlebury","tag-sports","tag-tom-stewart","tag-top-level","tag-two-time-best-and-fairest-winner","tag-victoria","tag-young-fella"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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