Star Richmond key forward Jack Riewoldt achieved another milestone in his stellar 2018 season, aside from All Australian selection, the Coleman Medal and the Jack Dyer Medal.
Riewoldt became AFL football’s games’ record-holder for the No. 8 guernsey.
He has now played 249 games wearing the No. 8 for the Tigers, since making his senior league debut in Round 9 of the 2007 season.
The player who previously had played the most games throughout AFL/VFL history in the No. 8 guernsey was Daniel Wells, with 243, when he was at North Melbourne.
There are three other Richmond players who top the competition’s list for games played in their respective guernsey numbers . . .
• Tiger ‘Immortal’ and five-time premiership player Francis Bourke played a record 300 games in the No. 30 from 1967-81.
• Dual Tiger premiership player David Cloke played a record combined total of 290 games in the No. 33 at both Richmond (219 games from 1974-82) and Collingwood (114 games from 1983-89).
• Barry Young played a record 27 games in the No. 53 with the Tigers from 1989-90.