Here are just a few of the achievements various members of the playing list could celebrate throughout 2014.
Have we missed any? Let us know in the comments below.
Drew Petrie
- Requires six games to reach 250 for his career. The earliest possible stage for Petrie to hit the milestone is on April 25 against Fremantle at Patersons Stadium.
- Requires 15 goals to enter the top 10 all-time at North Melbourne. His 324th goal will overtake Shannon Grant, who played 243 games for the Kangaroos.
Brent Harvey
- Requires 21 goals to reach 450 for his career.
- His 16th goal of the season and 445th for his career will lead to him overtaking Malcolm Blight for fourth all-time at North Melbourne.
- Requires 16 games to enter the top five all-time in VFL/AFL history. He will pass Simon Madden, with only Michael Tuck (426), Kevin Bartlett (403), Robert Harvey (383) and Dustin Fletcher (378*) ahead of him.
- His fifth win of the season will be the 200th of his career.
Lindsay Thomas
- Requires 20 games to reach 150 for his career. However Thomas has played 20 games in a season just twice in his seven years at North.
- Requires 21 goals to enter the top 20 all-time at North Melbourne. His 225th career goal will overtake Phil Krakouer for 20th place.
Lachlan Hansen
- Requires one game to reach 100 for his career.
- Requires 14 games to play 100 for his career in #6 and get his name on the locker.
Brad Scott
- Brad Scott will reach his 100th game coached in Round 11, the seventh North coach to do so after Denis Pagan, Wally Carter, Ron Barassi, Dean Laidley, John Kennedy and Bob McCaskill.
- If North has a 25-game season, Brad Scott will end the year having coached the fifth-most games at the club, behind only Pagan, Carter, Barassi and Laidley.
Other
- Leigh Adams requires 18 games to reach 100 for his career. He has played at least 18 games in the last three seasons.
- Jack Ziebell requires 20 games to reach 100 for his career.
- Ryan Bastinac requires 21 games to reach 100 for his career. His durability means he is a high chance to play 21 games, having not missed a single game in three of his four seasons.
- Aaron Mullett requires 6 games to play the most in #41, passing Adrian McAdam who played 36 games from 1993 to 1995.
- Sam Gibson requires 8 goals to kick the most in #43, passing John Longmire who kicked 21 in 11 games during 1988.
- Andrew Swallow requires four games to reach 150 for his career.
- Round 1 will be the 150th time North plays Essendon in VFL/AFL history.
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