Collingwood president Barry Carp has said that Scott Pendlebury's V/AFL games record-breaking match will be in the hands of the high-performance and football department.
Pendlebury has been managed for Thursday's clash with Hawthorn due to a five-day turnaround following Anzac Day last week.
The Pies champion is expected to face Geelong, drawing him level with North Melbourne icon Brent Harvey's 432 games, with speculation over when Pendlebury will break the record.
Collingwood travels to Sydney the following week, and the SCG isn't tipped to house the games record-breaking match, with a Round 11 clash against West Coast at the MCG the likeliest of options.
"There's been an enormous amount of preparation from a commercial perspective, from a football perspective in working out when (the milestone match) might happen," Carp said on SEN.
"Fly has been very much on point in saying, ultimately, it's a football department, high-performance and medical call, and that has to be first and foremost.
"Obviously, we're going to have to dovetail that with our commercial department.
"If it can happen at the MCG, in front of a full house of Collingwood people, that would be fantastic. But it's very much in the hands of the football department, and what makes sense from a high-performance, injury management perspective."
Carp insisted that the next couple of weeks are crucial in determining when the milestone match will be given the amount of effort that has gone into celebrating the moment accordingly.
But if it's at the MCG, the Pies president expects over 90,000.
"If it lands in that MCG fixture, I think it is going to be the most incredible tribute, the most incredible day devoted to his family, his friends, to people who have been on the journey with him," he added.
"Acknowledging something that, but 433 games, this is something that is an incredible record. Two decades of service. Very unlikely, given the football environment we have, to be broken.
"This is more than a once-in-a-generational achievement. It's going to be a special day.
"I would hope (over 90,000) so."
