An incredible feat by anyone's standards, but given the Melbourne Storm, Queensland and Kangaroos hooker is the first to the milestone in 111 years of the game it's definitely one worth celebrating.

One even worth its own hashtag: #CAM400

But hang on a touch, Smithy. Back up that purple bandwagon for a second.

Out here in Western Division there's a little town with a population that would probably fit snugly into one of the bays at AAMI Park in Melbourne.

Cargo: small in size but big in heart. And there's none with more ticker than Ash Brown.

The Cargo boy, born and raised, that this year is playing in his 27th-straight season of footy. No injuries, no breaks from the game.

As much as his wife Lana would probably like her husband back on Sundays, Browny can't help but lend a hand on game day. Rugby league is everything.

And since 1992 if there has been a footy team playing in Cargo then it's had Brown playing hooker, or in the halves, or at lock ... pretty well anywhere the Blue Heelers have needed him.

And so in 2019 Brown is still lacing up the boots, wherever they need him.

Smith will run out on Saturday night and bring up his incredible feat against the Cronulla Sharks, Brown passed that mark somewhere around 2011 - the year the Blue Heelers won the Woodbridge Cup, for a sixth time.

There's no official game count, though, Brown's not about the recognition or personal glory - he's the ultimate team-first, town-first player.

But if there was someone counting, after 27 seasons and, roughly, 20 games per year Brown is up around the 540-game mark.

"Well, really the last few years I've played simply because the town doesn't have a lot of people. Our population is only about 300," Brown said.

"We don't have a lot of locals that play footy any more. I'm involved with the committee and you put hand up where you can.

"I normally start training with the boys, because I don't go to the gym or anything, and do what I can to stay fit.

"When they're struggle for numbers, and that's the story with most small clubs, you put your hand up."

Well over 500 games, Woodbridge Cup premierships in 2000, 2002, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2014 and a man of the match award in 2006's grand final as well.

Brown has put his hand up for the club more than anyone in its history. And without any real hiccups.

He debuted for Cargo in 1992 when the club was playing in the old mid west competition and still remembers taking on Charlestons at University Oval, Bathurst like it was yesterday.

Truth is, some of his teammates in 2019 weren't even born then.

Brown played for Manildra in 1993, when Cargo didn't have a team, but was back in Blue Heelers colours the following season when the club reformed.

It was a battle for the Blue Heelers in that period though, but Brown was always there and then enjoyed the club's golden era at the turn of the millennium.

The club last played in the 2017 Woodbridge Cup grand final but went down to Trundle at Condobolin and missed the finals last year.

It's looking likely Cargo will miss the finals again in 2019, "it's going to be hard now," Brown admits with the club sitting in seventh with just over a month of the regular season to go.

But the veteran rake is still putting his hand up, the 43-year-old has been a rock for Anthony Redfern's outfit in 2019 - playing in the club's old boys side in June before leaving the field, finding a first grade jumper and running out for the Cargo top side against Manildra on the same day.

"The body has its sore moments," Brown laughed, that's probably pretty natural when you're sometimes playing two games a day.

"But I try and look after myself pretty well. I don't do what I used to do but I trot around and try and do the simple things right.

"I've never been a brilliant player but that's helped my longevity. I just try and do the one per-centers well, as the coaches say."

Woodbridge Cup president Andrew Pull is the same age as Brown, 44 this year, and really should still be playing. If Brown can, anyone can, right?

"God no," Pull laughed.

"I finished in 2010 and 2011 and I've been asking Browny to join the committee ever since but he keeps playing. I think he'll keep playing until he gets a game with his son."

Pull said Brown was "one of the real good fellas" involved with the Cup competition.

"A few years back he was part of a really good Cargo side and a number of his mates left to play in Group 10 but he stayed with Cargo. He's a stalwart of Woodbridge Cup," Pull added.

"You know when you play Cargo you're going to play Browny, too. He's deserving of any plaudits he can get."

With that in mind, is there any greater expression of praise than being handed a personal hashtag?

Smithy has one, after all, and he's not played anywhere near as many games as Ash Brown.

Throw in the fact Brown has played probably half his 500-plus games at Cargo Oval, basically a paddock with a 30 degree rise from the western touchline to the eastern, and the toll on his body, the one he does his best to look after, is probably much greater.

His legs probably feel like they've played 800 games, running up that hill at Cargo every second week.

There's no retirement in sight, either, so let's try this one on for size: #BROWNY1000