Collingwood may have unearthed a tribute guernsey to club icon Scott Pendlebury ahead of his V/AFL game-breaking match before quickly removing it from its official memorabilia site.
Pendlebury matched North Melbourne champion Brent Harvey's 432 games on Saturday against Geelong, and is set to be managed for the trip to Sydney before returning the following week against West Coast at the MCG.
The Pies will celebrate their superstar in front of a home crowd during a Saturday twilight fixture, which will welcome over 90,000.
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"No Scott won't play next week. We're unashamed of the plan to play him the week after, all going to plan with his body. This is a plan that we stick to with high-performance, but also rewarding and celebrating one of the greats of our game, and we're excited for what that looks like in a couple of weeks' time," McRae said.
"We'll sit in this now, and have a shallow loss, and dust ourselves off quickly and get up to Sydney and put on a good performance for our fans – because it wasn't good enough tonight – and we're excited for that. But at the appropriate time, we'll make sure we celebrate 'Pendles' for what it is."
But after much speculation over what the club will do to honour Pendlebury, has the jumper been revealed?
There's writing down the middle of the front of the jumper, with speculation around every player Pendlebury has played with listed on the guernsey.
In April, the AFL approved the use of a gold number 10 on the back of Pendlebury's jumper, which has received mixed feedback on social media.
Teammate Patrick Lipinski backed the idea.
"I like it," Lipinski said last week.
"I've seen a few people giving it a bit of hate, but I think Pendles can do whatever he wants and he's earnt the right to be celebrated.
"I think we should just all be getting around that because it's going to be amazing when he breaks the record."
