Cassidy will become only the second player in BFNL history to reach the milestone, after her long-time Magpies team-mate Alisha Chadwick, who achieved the feat last season.

With Chadwick not playing in 2017, Cassidy will likely eclipse her friend’s Magpies and league games record of 356 at some point during this season.

Typically for a player, who has unfailingly always put the club and team-mates before herself during her 23 seasons, Cassidy was humble and circumspect at the prospect of overtaking Chadwick.

“More than anything I’d love to see her back on the court – she’s still got what it takes,” she said.

“Obviously she has got a lot of commitments with her son Archie playing football and coaching her daughter Tali as well, so she is doing a lot of bookwork behind the scenes.

“But maybe we could con her out for a few games.”

Cassidy is one of the undisputed greats of BFNL netball.

A Betty Thompson medallist in 2005, she has also won an astonishing six club best and fairest awards, her most recent coming in 2015.

She has missed just one season during her time at Princes Park – in 2006 while pregnant with daughter Millie.

Testament to her quality and longevity, Cassidy has been runner-up in the club award the past two seasons behind Laura Clarkson (2016) and Jordan Macilwain (2017).

About the only thing missing from her stellar resume is a premiership.

Cassidy and the Magpies did come close in 2001 only to be beaten by Sandhurst in over-time.

With several exciting youngsters from last season’s 17-and-under grand final team now making their way into the A-grade line-up, Cassidy was confident the Magpies were well-placed for future success.

“Hopefully we can develop them to take on the legacy of moving Maryborough forward,” she said.

“We also have six junior teams up and ready in the local competition (in Maryborough), so we’re hoping they will come through as the future of our club as well.

“A few of those (former) under-17 girls like their basketball too and are juggling commitments, but every now and then we get them for netball.”

Cassidy was keen to point out that two of those young netballers,  Maggie Tranter, who won the 17-and-under league best and fairest in 2017, and Keely Hare would be playing their 50th games on Saturday.

A physical education teacher at Maryborough Education Centre, Cassidy has had an interrupted start to the season with a niggling knee injury.

But that has not stopped her from moving back into her customary midcourt role, after spending most of last season at goal attack alongside sharp-shooter Macilwain.

She rates Gisborne midcourt star Tiana Newman as her toughest opponent and Chadwick as the best she has played alongside at Maryborough,

“Alisha and I played a lot of netball together and very rarely did she get beaten in defence,” she said.

“She was just a fantastic role model for everyone at our club.”

Cassidy said it was the friendships she had made through netball that kept her coming back each season, but hinted the 2018 season might be her last.

“I won’t say definitely, but it’s on the cards that this could be my last (season),” she said.

“I’ve built some beautiful friendships along the way and now I’m playing with girls I am teaching at school.

“You make a lot of good bonds.”

Cassidy will play her 350th game against South Bendigo at Princes Park, with the Magpies chasing their first win of the season following a loss last week to Golden Square.