Five years and seven days after they made their AFL debut together Tom Papley and George Hewett will join the Sydney Swans 100-Game Club together tonight.

They have shared 87 games, 51 wins and seven finals since they entered the League in an 80-point SCG win over Collingwood in which Callum Mills also made his AFL debut.

Coincidentally, it was the last time three Swans debuted together before what will be the shared debut tomorrow night for 2020 draftees Braeden Campbell, Errol Gulden and Logan McDonald against the Brisbane Lions at the Gabba to open the 2021 season.

Only once have Papley and Hewett missed the same game – in the Round 12 derby of 2016.

If it was a head-to-head games battle, Hewett had skipped 10 games clear when he played his 99^th game in Round 7 last year, having missed only two games and playing 83 in a row to the end of the 2019, before a back injury cut short his Covid campaign and allowed Papley to pull level.

Papley and Hewett will be the 137^th and 138^th 100-gamers on an all-time Swans playing list that will stretch to 1348 tomorrow night with the first Swans outing of Campbell, Gulden, McDonald and former West Coast ruckman Tom Hickey.

Papley, a rookie selection from the Gippsland Power in the same 2016 draft pool as Mills and Irishman Colin O’Riordan, will be aged 24 years 250 days in his 100^th game and will take in career statistics of 1368 possessions, 146 goals and 55 wins.

Hewett, drafted from North Adelaide with selection #32 in the 2013 National Draft, will be 25 years 81 days and will take in career statistics of 1753 possessions, 32 goals and 57 wins.

Papley will be the 37^th Swans player to reach triple figures before his 25^th birthday, and Hewett the 63^rd to do so before his 26^th birthday.

Among seven 22-year-old 100-gamers, the youngest in 1990 was Team of the Century member Mark Bayes at 22 years 170 days. Others aged 22 at their first major milestone game have been Michael O’Loughlin, Daniel Hannebery, Jason Saddington, Luke Parker, Bob Pratt and Tony Morwood.

The oldest Swan at the time of his 100^th game for the club was Bob Windley, a member of the first South Melbourne side in 1897 at 28 years 253 days. He was 34 years 296 when he shared with Mick Pleass, another foundation player, the honour of being the club’s first 100-gamer in 1903.

Pratt, the club’s all-time leading goal-kicker, has kicked most goals in his first 100 games for the club at 458, from 1920’s star Ted Johnson (321), Lance Franklin (315) and Barry Hall (307).

Since the introduction of possession counts in 1965, the leading possession-winner in his first 100 games for the club has been Brownlow Medallist Greg Williams with 2864. Others above 2000 have been Josh Kennedy (2446), Norm Goss (2378), Barry Mitchell (2287), Peter Bedford (2258), Dan Hannebery (2205), Jake Lloyd (2200), Daryn Cresswell (2117) and Parker (2095).

The ‘winningest’ Swans 100-gamer has been 1933 premiership defender John Austin. Also a member of losing grand final sides in 1934-35-36, Austin had 73 wins in his first 100 games and finished with 85 wins and a draw from 140 games. Next on the 100-game win list are Franklin (72) and Lloyd (71).

Papley will be the Swans’ 11^th 100-gamer to come off the rookie list after Brett Kirk, Tadhg Kennelly, Paul Bevan, Heath Grundy, Kieren Jack, Nick Smith, Mike Pyke, Dane Rampe, Lloyd and Harry Cunningham – a League record. Fremantle (9), Adelaide (8), Essendon (8) and Melbourne (8) are next best.