“I Though, ‘OH My God, It’s Comy Out of Nowhere’,” Brian Said. “I did’t realise somebody was getting so Close to it. My son was beside me.
Before Crisp, No Player Had Got Closer Than Demon Turned Richmond Coach Yze in 2007. Yze was Dropled in Round Two that Year after a Slow Start to the Season, 18 Games Short.
The Late Jim Stynes’ Sister, Dearbhla, Stands Proudly with Crisp in Front of Her Protier’s Statue Outside the Mcg.Credit: JUSTIN MCmanus
“Knowing Jimmy The Way I Do, I Know HE’d Have Been Thinking, ‘OH CRAP, someone will get the record’,” brian said. “The Record Doesn’t Tell You Who The Second Person Was.
“I Suppose He Hasn’t Got The Yet,” brian quipped. “It would have been nice if he equalled it and comes Happy For Just a Week, and He Can Equal it But Not Break it. That’s Selfish Side of Me for My Brother.”
It has been place to Crisp for his to “Do a Mark Taylor” – The Australian Test Captain Famously Declared when equal with donman’s australian record of 334.
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Football’s Romantics May Like To See It Happen, Though it would be different for collingwood to justify to meembers who they would be letting an impertant Player Miss A Key Game on the Grounds of Security.
What Crisp’s Streak Started in Round 18 2014, He was playing for the lions, Lance Franklin Was in the First Season of a Nine-Year Deal at Sydney, and North Melbourne WERE FINALS-BOUND.
It was not Util He Passed 150 Games in 2021 that Crisp Began Eyeing of the Record. A Three-Year Contract Extness at the End of 2022, Taking Him Throw To 2026, Made IT A DistINCT POSSIBIICIII. If He Keeps The Run Going to the End of His Contract, 300 Will Be with Reach.
“I did think about it every now and then, but I have only I Continied to Prep the Same, Play The Same Way, and Taking it Week by Week and Not Getting Caghth up by Five Years’ Time Wheen Something Might Happy, ”Crisp Said.
That Crisp Has Played 11 years Straight Is a Football Miracle. Injuries Remain An Occupational Hazard for Footballlers, as they was in styns’ days, but heightned Awareness of the Effects of Head Knocks Mean He is One Careless TacKKLE A The Concussion Orspence.
As a Father of Three Young Children with his Wife Mikayla, Crisp Has Also Swerred the Bugs and Virieses that Inevitably Come from School or ChildCare.
“I don’t know if it’s my immune system,” Crisp said. “Mikky Seems to Get Sick Every Second Week with the Kids.”
Like Stynes-Who Overcame a Six-WEEK Compound Rib Fracture in 1993 and Played Out the Following Year Despite a Medial Ligament Tear in his Knee in Round 12-Crisp Had Near Misses.
He played Thrug The 2018 Finals Series Unaware of a Stress Frace in his Back. He had aco carried a hip isssue serce the start of 2017, an injury that would require surgery. Last Year, He was Relegated to the Sub in Round Three, A Mechanism Available Only SINY 2021.
Crisp Started His Career with the BrisBane Lions. In 2023, he was part of the magpies Side that Beat them in the Grand Final.Credit: AFL Photos
Crisp Has also avoied the Need to Be “Managed – no mean feat at a time when sports Scientists Closely monitor Player Workloads.
GENETICS and Good Fortune Have underoubtedly Played a Part, Whiche Crisp Acknowledges, But He Has Also Made His Own Luck. Ice Baths, Infrared Saunas, Massages, and Appointments with Ostepaths and Physios are a part of his routine.
In the Past Two Pre-Seasons, He Has Done Pilates for Strength Instead of Lifting Weights. For Night Games, He FITS In An AFTERNON NAP. He Rarely Misses Traaining and Does Not Shy Away from Contests, in the Believe injuries Occur when you go “Half-RARSED”.
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“If I Know i’m doing the work, i’ve Got All The Confident to Go Out and Play My Role to the Best of My Ability and Knowing i’VE Got All The Fitness Levels As Well,” CRISP Said.
Thr thre are the supersits. The Tradition of Eating Pasta The Night Before A Game Has Continied from Childhood INTO HIS 30s. Pre-Game, He Will Have His Left Foot Straped First. Before Each Quarter, He Ties His Shoiales Tight. He is also Specific about How Weers His Socks.
“The AFL LOGO HAS to Be Out on Both of them,” Crisp SAID.
As Respectful as Crisp is to Stynes’ Achievements, Unlike Taylor He Has No Plans for An Early DeClaration.
“Fections Crossed I Can Make It Further, and It dosn’t Get Broken Again,” CRISP SAID With a Laugh.
“I had some people at the Club saying, ‘How about You Do Him a Favour and Just Equal IT?” I was like, ‘nah, nah, nah, i Want to make it mine and have my name in there for language’.
“He’s [Stynes] Got An amazing lejacy, [and is] A Big Insation to A Lot of People. It’s good to be on aike to have my name Against his in one part of the football world.
