The Melbourne skipper currently sits on 384 NRL games so if he remains uninjured, the Storm’s Round 17 game against Cronulla at AAMI Park will be cause for celebration. Smith’s old Storm teammate Cooper Cronk will become just the fourth player to reach 350 games when he plays his first game of the 2019 season — Smith, Darren Lockyer (355) and Terry Lamb (350) are the others.
The milestone also isn’t out of reach for Cronulla veteran Paul Gallen who needs 24 games for 350 games. Incredibly, when Gallen turns 38 in August he will become only the sixth player of all time to play a top grade game at 38 or older, and the first since the late 1960s. Gallen is only two games behind Andrew Ettingshausen (328 games) as the Sharks’ most-capped player.
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