What happens when a Fremantle player has gone where no other has been?
In the latest episode of Old Bull, Young Buck, David Mundy and Griffin Logue joked with guest Matthew Pavlich about how the playing group should honour Mundy’s record-breaking feats when he passes Pavlich’s 353-game record.
Mundy will equal the record this Sunday in the RAC Derby and is set to break new ground in round 23 against St Kilda with his 354th game.
From there, the sky is the limit with Mundy contracted for at least the 2022 season.
Two weeks after Mundy was chaired off following his 350th game, Logue posed the question about whether Mundy was due for another.
“How's it gonna work? Do you get chaired off for an equalling the record, is that how it works?” Logue asked.
Pavlich said that simply matching his record wasn’t enough. “I wouldn't have thought so, no. He has to get past it.”
Then Mundy countered, if 354 gets a guard of honour, then so does every other game he plays that extends the record. “If I get a chair off the weekend after that, do I get a chair off every week?”
Pavlich said that was only fair. “Yes. It’s in his contract each year. I get chaired off every week I break the record.”
In 2016, Pavlich’s record of 353 games seemed almost insurmountable, but he said he will be thrilled to see Mundy take the honour.
“There’s no sadness. I think it's great that someone's played long enough and had the durability, the mental application and the physical skill to go on and play what will be 19 years of AFL football when you go around next year,” Pavlich said.
“Having played with David for a long time and working closely with him in the leadership group capacity, there's no one better to take it over.
“We had a long working relationship with each other, I admire the way he went about it, how he evolved and changed his game.
“I think it's a significant moment for the club to realise that we've got someone else who's going to take the baton on and continue on into a 19th season, it's quite remarkable.”
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