Noah Anderson will complete one of the best first 150-game blocks in AFL history in Q-Clash 32 at the Gabba tomorrow.

The SUNS skipper has played 149 of a possible 153 games since joining the SUNS as pick No.2 in the 2019 National Draft, missing two games with a hand injury in 2021 and one through illness in 2022 and 2026.

He has 3,867 possessions, 60 goals and 83 Brownlow Medal votes.

His best and fairest finishes read 6-8-2-1-5-2, and he’s finished 13th in the Brownlow Medal in 2022 (14 votes), ninth in 2023 (22 votes) and sixth in 2025 (25 votes).

Runner-up to Fremantle’s Caleb Serong in the 2020 Rising Star Award, Anderson won All-Australian selection in 2025 after being named in the squad in 2023-24, and in the prestigious AFL Coaches Association Player of the Year award he was 11th in 2023 and 17th in 2024 before sharing the award with Geelong’s Bailey Smith last year.

That’s not to say the 25-year-old midfielder is the greatest player of the 21st century, but it’s an argument that most definitely puts him in the conversation with the very best.

After 150 games, Western Bulldogs captain Marcus Bontempelli had 3,404 possessions, 133 goals and 105 votes. Slightly down on possessions compared to Anderson but up in goals and slightly up in votes. And after finishing outside the top 10 in the best and fairest in his first year he went 3-1-1-3-1.

Carlton captain Patrick Cripps had 3,789 possessions, 83 goals and 110 votes. Slightly down on possessions but up on Anderson for goals and votes, with a best and fairest record that had him outside the top 10 in year one before he finished 1-3-8-1-1 in the next five years.

Gary Ablett Jnr had 2,937 possessions, 197 goals and 65 votes at Geelong, and had gone X-4-6-8-3-3-1 in the best and fairest. And Dustin Martin had 3,656 possessions, 150 goals and 95 votes, and a 4-3-10-2-3-2 best and fairest record at Richmond.

Anderson, born to be a footballer after father Dean played 150 games with Hawthorn and St Kilda and shared in Hawthorn premierships in 1989 and 1991, has done it all while carrying a load above and beyond his age.

He was promoted to the SUNS leadership group after just two years at the club and took over as captain in 2025, leading the club to its first finals appearance.

He’s a standard-setter, loved by all at the SUNS and respected and admired across the league.

Anderson will share the 150-game milestone tomorrow with Wil Powell as the SUNS take on the Brisbane Lions at the Gabba in Q-Clash 32.

Among 162 SUNS players all-time they will be the eighth and ninth to 150 games, which across the league is automatic life membership.

Ahead of them on the games list are David Swallow (249), Touk Miller (235), Jarrod Harbrow (192), Alex Sexton (186), Jarrod Witts(177), Ben Ainsworth (158), and Sam Collins and Sam Day (155).

It will be the skipper’s 14th game against the arch-rivals from the state capital, and despite not joining the club until year 10 in 2020 he already sits ninth on the SUNS’ QClash games list.

Swallow, the retired ex-skipper, is No.1 at 24 games, second on the overall Q-Clash list three games behind Brisbane’s Dayne Zorko, ahead of Miller (19), Harbrow and Ainsworth (17), Witts (16), Sean Lemmens (15), and Collins and Day (14).

Miller will become the second SUNS player to reach 20 Q-Clash appearances tomorrow, while Collins, back injury permitting, will play his 16th, and Beau Addinsall will play his first after a rest last week.

The QClash is one of those games where form and ladder position don’t matter. It’s on every time the teams come together.

Brisbane have a 23-8 advantage overall, and if each year is counted as a series, Brisbane lead 9-1, with five series drawn. Gold Coast’s only series win was in 2015.

It’s 14-3 to Brisbane at the Gabba and 9-5 to Brisbane at People First Stadium.

But all that matters is that the start time is 4.15pm.