\u2018Pendles Cam\u2019<\/a> \u2014 an individual camera solely on the 38-year old veteran throughout the game.<\/p>\nThe MCG is expecting a crowd of over 88,000, with the potential to hit 90,000-plus in what would be some return involving a non-Victorian club. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s worth noting that the MCG estimated 70,000 for Friday night\u2019s Dreamtime match and got 78,000 in the house. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s going to be amazing to have that many people here, we\u2019re so fortunate we get to play in front of these crowds all the time,\u201d Pendlebury added.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019ll be really special. Nothing better than the \u2018G on Saturday afternoon in front of 90,000.\u201d<\/p>\n
But could West Coast spoil the party?<\/p>\n
Eagles coach Andrew McQualter kept his cards close to his chest with how they\u2019ll plan against Pendlebury, but highlighted the risk of tagging. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe thing with the Pies is they\u2019ve got guns everywhere on the field, so you\u2019ve got to be careful of who you tag and how you tag,\u201d he said on SEN radio.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I think you see that all the time with teams tagging Nick Daicos – they can just manipulate things, they\u2019re so experienced, they can move pieces around.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, we\u2019ve got to be careful not getting too caught up in that as well – they\u2019re a good, experienced team, and they can beat you in multiple ways.\u201d<\/p>\n
Watch it live: On Fox Footy (channel 504), and streaming on Kayo, from 4pm AEST<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scott Pendlebury is \u201cembracing\u201d his record 433rd AFL game as the Collingwood champ takes centre stage. Pendlebury celebrations…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,8406,64,63,689,55,639,684,50005,10133,10143,68923,336332,336331,19096,330971,677,133736,31520,336330,273123,19083,31407,85,298520,660,7067],"class_list":["post-688912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-andrew-mcqualter","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-ben-cotton","tag-centre-stage","tag-collingwood-magpies","tag-craig-mcrae","tag-eagles-coach","tag-elwood","tag-game-celebrations","tag-mark-howard","tag-multiple-ways","tag-oceania","tag-pies-fans","tag-quality-time","tag-record-celebrations-kick","tag-record-breaking-game","tag-scott-pendlebury","tag-sonic","tag-sports","tag-twilight-clash","tag-victoria","tag-west-coast-eagles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688912","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=688912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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