Collingwood superstar makes big career call

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Collingwood fable Scott Pendlebury has stepped down arsenic skipper aft 9 years successful the job.

He informed his teammates astatine a grooming league connected Monday morning.

Pendlebury, who has played a club-record 358 games, and captained the Magpies connected 206 occasions, said his relation would present beryllium to "support the adjacent skipper of our club".

"To skipper an AFL nine is 1 of the top honours and it is not thing I person ever taken for granted," Pendlebury said.

"It has been an implicit privilege to pb this broadside for arsenic agelong arsenic I have. At 34 years of property and successful the twilight of my career, I felt that this is the optimal clip to manus implicit the presumption and enactment the adjacent skipper of our club.

"I person experienced each the large shot highs and lows passim my nine-year tenure arsenic skipper and I look guardant to seeing the adjacent idiosyncratic instrumentality the accidental and marque it their own."

Pendlebury won the expansive final's Norm Smith Medal successful 2010 and is simply a five-time All Australian. He besides won the AFLPA Best Captain grant successful 2020 and 2022.

He became skipper up of the 2014 season, replacing Nick Maxwell.

In a statement, the nine said they would "soon enactment successful spot the process to name its 48th AFL captain".

They said they would marque the announcement immoderate clip successful the caller year.

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