Star spearhead Jack Riewoldt is set to break a four-decade Richmond record when he lines up against Sydney at the MCG on Saturday.

It will be Riewoldt’s 214^th game of league football, which means he goes past four-time Tiger premiership hero Dick Clay as the player with the most appearances in the No. 8 Yellow and Black guernsey.

Clay, recruited by Richmond from Victorian country club Kyabram, played 213 games in a distinguished 10-year career with the Tigers (1966-76), initially as a wingman and then at full-back.

The ‘Kyabram Kid’, as he was affectionately known, was a key member of the Club’s 1967, 1969, 1973 and 1974 premiership sides.

He had a highly-impressive winning strike rate of 71.8 percent throughout his time at Tigerland and, when Richmond selected its Team of the Century in 1999, Clay was named on a wing.

Jack Riewoldt, who was the Tigers’ first pick (No. 13 overall) in the 2006 AFL National Draft, made his AFL debut in the 2007 ‘Dreamtime at the G’ clash with Essendon.

Since 2009, Riewoldt has played 187 out of a possible 190 games, including the last 80 in-a-row.

The highly-skilled, high-flying sharpshooter is a dual Coleman Medallist, two-time All-Australian representative, a Jack Dyer Medallist (2010), and a seven-time winner of the Michael Roach Medal, as the Tigers’ leading goalkicker in a season.

Michael Roach, who also wore the No. 8 guernsey for Richmond, kicked 607 goals in 200 games, including a Club record 112 in the Tigers’ 1980 premiership year.  He also was a seven-time winner of Richmond’s leading goalkicker award.