Lewis Taylor will on Sunday reach a milestone that has been reached by only two players among 292 who have played for the Brisbane Football Club.
Taylor, set to face the Sydney Swans at the Gabba in Round 6 of the AFL season, will play his 50th consecutive AFL match from debut after having broken into the side in Round 1 of his first season at the club.
Only David Bain, from the Brisbane Bears era, and current Lions teammate Daniel Rich have done likewise.
Bain played 58 games in a row from debut in Round 1 1989, and Rich played 59 games in a row from his Round 1 debut in 2009.
Jack Redden played 112 consecutive Lions games from debut but he didn’t break into the top side until Round 12 of his first season.
And Scott McIvor, who played 65 consecutive Bears games from his debut for the club in 1988, had played three seasons and 55 games prior to that with Fitzroy.
Even Bain is in a slightly different category to Rich and Taylor. He had played four years of senior football with East Perth before joining the Bears in then VFL in 1989 and debuted at 22.
This leaves only Rich, who was 18 on debut, and now Taylor, who was 19 on debut, as teenage draftees who had such an immediate impact, having gone straight into the senior Brisbane side and played 50 consecutive games from debut.
Taylor, now 21, has enjoyed a golden run since being drafted by the Lions at selection #28 in the 2013 National Draft from Mortlake via the Geelong Falcons in western Victoria.
The pocket-sized rover won the AFL Rising Star Award and the Lions Rising Star Award in an outstanding debut season in 2014, and was 6th in the club B&F in 2014 and 7th in 2015.
Marcus Ashcroft holds the club record for most consecutive games at 170 from 1992-2000.
Ashcroft also had an 87-game streak from 2000-03 that ranks fifth on the club list.
Redden’s 112-game streak from his debut in 2009 until injury intervened in 2014 is second best, followed by Simon Black’s 107 games in a row from 2000 to 2004, and Nigel Lappin’s 103 games straight from 1998 to 2002.
Black’s consecutive run was only broken when he missed the first three games of 2005 due to a suspension incurred in the 2004 grand final.
Consecutive streaks beyond 50 games in Brisbane Football Club history are:-
170 - Marcus Ashcroft (1992-2000)
112 – Jack Redden (2009-14)
107 – Simon Black (2000-04)
103 – Nigel Lappin (1998-2002)
87 – Marcus Ashcroft (2000-03)
79 – Darryl White (1997-2000)
78 – Tim Notting (2005-08)
68 – Jed Adcock (2012-15)
68 – Brad Scott (2001-03)
65 – Scott McIvor (1988-90)
61 – Chris Johnson (2003-06)
60 – Luke Power (2007-10)
59 – Mal Michael (2003-06)
59 – Daniel Rich (2009-11)
58 – David Bain (1989-91)
57 – Daniel Merrett (2006-09)
56 – Michael Rischitelli (2008-10)
53 – Robert Copeland (2003-05)
52 – Joel Patfull (2012-14)
51 – Martin Pike (2001-03)
Rischitelli’s 56-game streak was only broken when he left the club at the end of the 2010 season to join the foundation signings with the Gold Coast Suns.
Ashcroft’s remarkable 170-game run, which included seven consecutive full seasons from 1993-99, ranks 10th in AFL history behind Jim Stynes (244), Adem Yze (226), Adam Goodes (20), Jack Titus (202), Brett Kirk (200), Jared Crouch (194), Jock McHale (1991), Andrew Collins (189) and Kane Cornes (174).
Crouch holds the all-time record for most consecutive games from debut at 194.
Redden sits fifth on that list, behind Crouch, Dick Taylor (127), David Mundy (124) and Stephen Wallis (113) and ahead of current Lions reserves coach Shane Woewodin (107) and Harry Collier (100).
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