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Pendlebury Diaries: The Record Breaker - Episode 1: "Ah F***"

5/7/202626 min

The Howie Games presents a special new series. 

Pendlebury Diaries is built from personal, real time voice notes exchanged between Scott Pendlebury and Mark Howard, tracking the weeks and months leading into his record-breaking AFL game. Early mornings, training, recovery, mindset, family, a fourth Anzac Day Medal as it unfolds and even Collingwood boardroom insights - the stuff that usually stays behind closed doors.

Episode 1 goes inside the mind of Scott Pendlebury as he chases history. From the heartbreak of tearing his calf in the prelim and the “worst tasting beer in history”, to being back in the home gym at 6.30am the Monday after the Lions won the Premiership and already preparing for 2026, Pendles opens up like never before.

There’s honest insight into contract talks, the grind of pre-season, injury setbacks, watching helplessly from home, and the mindset that has driven one of the game’s greatest careers. Raw, reflective and relentlessly driven, this is the setup to the record chase.

It's all building toward one moment: Game 433.

  • Episode 1 - May 8
  • Episode 2 - May 15
  • Episode 3 - May 22
  • Episode 4 - May 25

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Clips

Making the call: I’m done
Worst-tasting beer in history
Turning devastation into drive
Rewriting preseason at 37
Achilles scare, calm plan
Restless when sidelined

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Speaker 00:00

    [upbeat music] A listener production.

  2. Scott Pendlebury· Guest0:04

    [door closing] [car engine starting] Oh, fuck. It's, uh, midnight. Pretty gutted. Just lost the prelim. I don't know what I've done to my calf.

  3. Mark Howard· Host0:19

    [sighs] Tough caper, professional sport. Tough caper. More of that in a moment. How about I take you back before we move forward and explain what The Record Breaker is all about? [tape rewinding] So, in the 2025 AFL pre-season, Collingwood legend Scott Pendlebury took us all on a journey with never-before-heard insights recorded on his phone as to what an AFL pre-season entails, as he pushed past 400 games of AFL football. We called the series Pendlebury: Beyond 400, and it blew up the Howie Games feed. Blew the system up.

  4. Speaker 3· Soundbite0:57

    The black and white go sick at the G.

  5. Scott Pendlebury· Guest0:59

    6:50 Saturday morning.

  6. Speaker 3· Soundbite1:01

    Full noise, yeah. Full noise. Here we go.

  7. Scott Pendlebury· Guest1:01

    In pre-season, when you're a side that doesn't play finals- You're your best mate ... you're trying to grab anything you can.

  8. Speaker 3· Soundbite1:06

    Hey, mate, that's the difference. When you come forward like that, unbelievable for us.

  9. Scott Pendlebury· Guest1:08

    Everyone's trying to chat, everyone's talking, everyone's helping each other out. But you're redlining.

  10. Speaker 3· Soundbite1:13

    Let's go, let's go.

  11. Scott Pendlebury· Guest1:13

    Feel I'm gonna spew.

  12. Mark Howard· Host1:15

    [whistle blowing] Now, over a year on, Pendles is on the cusp of breaking Brent Harvey's all-time record of most VFL/AFL games ever played- A great moment in history ... set at 432

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