This Friday night, Senior Coach Michael Voss will become just the fourth person in the Club’s combined history (including Fitzroy and the Bears) to have coached 100 senior matches.

Only Leigh Matthews (237 games coached with the Lions), Robert Walls (224 games coached between Fitzroy and the Bears), and Bill Stephen (214 games coached with Fitzroy) have achieved the feat before him.

Fitzroy’s Fred Hughson (96 games), Vic Belcher (93 games), Len Smith (92 games), and Percy Parratt (91 games) fell just short of the mark.

Voss was appointed as Matthews’ successor at the end of the 2008 season, after an illustrious playing career with the Lions over which he played 289 games in 15 seasons with the Bears/Lions.

Voss’ combined contribution of 388 senior games (as player and coach) is clearly the greatest in Club history, with Kevin Murray (333 games) and Bill Stephen (322 games – 54 of which were as player/coach) ranked second and third respectively.

In Round 22 when the Lions meet the Western Bulldogs at the Gabba, he will notch up his 400^th game as player/coach.