IT might be said that playing an AFL game is something akin to running a half marathon while getting bruised and bettered from every angle for two hours. It’s a huge physical test.

So to do it every week through an AFL season and play every game is real ironman stuff.

This week six Port Adelaide players are set to emerge from a season-long ironman marathon as members of the 2018 ‘played every game’ club.

Barring mishap, Travis Boak, Brad Ebert, Dan Houston, Jared Polec, Justin Westhoff and Ollie Wines will complete full seasons against Essendon at Adelaide Oval on Friday night.

For Ebert and Westhoff it will be their sixth complete season, while Wines will post his fifth and Boak his third. Houston and Polec will complete their first full season.

This will take Ebert and Westhoff to equal second on the club’s all-time list of complete seasons.

It is a list headed by games record-holder Kane Cornes, who played every game in a season nine times, including seven in a row from 2004-2010.

Brendon Lade, set to be joined by Ebert and Westhoff, is presently outright second with six full seasons.

Wines will jump to outright fifth on the complete seasons list, one ahead of Shaun Burgoyne and Dom Cassisi, who have four each, while Boak will join Matthew Broadbent, Chad Cornes, Stuart Dew, Josh Francou, Robbie Gray, Stephen Paxman, Danyle Pearce and Warren Tredrea on the next rung with three complete seasons.

Since Port joined the AFL in 1997 a total of 55 different players have had a total of 115 full seasons.

All going to plan, this year’s group of six will make it 58 different players and 121 full seasons.

Players with two full seasons have been Josh Carr, Fabian Francis, Adam Kingsley, Brayden Lyle., Darren Mead, Brett Montgomery, David Rodan, Jarrad Schofield, Jay Schulz, Nick Stevens, Toby Thurstans, Gavin Wanganeen, Michael Wilson and Chad Wingard.

Players with one full season have been Matthew Bishop, Shane Bond, Darcy Byrne-Jones, Alipate Carlile, Tom Clurey, Donald Dickie, Charlie Dixon, Nathan Eagleton, Brett Ebert, Sam Gray, Hamish Hartlett, Adam Heuskes, Jack Hombsch, Roger James, Josh Mahoney, Angus Monfries, Cam O’Shea, Michael Pettigrew, Byron Pickett, Matthew Primus, Jackson Trengove and Darryl Wakelin.

With complete seasons goes consecutive games, and going into Round 23 Justin Westhoff will be looking to stretch his unbroken run to 123 games in a row.

This is second-longest in club history behind Kane Cornes’ 174-game streak, which ranks ninth all-time in AFL history.

Wines is on 66 games in a row, and Ebert, who had a 99-game streak from his arrival at the club in 2012 which ranks third all-time behind Cornes and Westhoff, is currently at 59 games going into Round 23.

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