Early on in his career, Rumble felt that reaching 200 games might come quite easy given he hasn’t had any serious injuries, started his league career relatively young and has not taken any time away from the WAFL.

However, as he nears his 30th birthday he realises just how big of a commitment it is to continue to play WAFL football while maintaining a career and starting to build a family – not to mention the toll it takes on your body.

"Initially I thought I would get to 200 games because I thought I would be able to play at least until I was 30, but as you get older you start realising that you pull up pretty sore, injuries start to creep in and the commitment side of things is huge," he said.

"Kris Miller reached 300 games with three kids and a full-time job and I just don’t know how he did it. As I've got older, trying to commit to all the training sessions and having my whole weekend taken up by footy because I can hardly move now on Sundays has got tougher. Because of all that commitment required, I think it's a pretty decent achievement reaching 200 games."

Not only is this Saturday's clash against East Fremantle a celebration for Rumble's 200th game and captain Kyal Horsley's 100th, it is crucial in the context of the season for both clubs.

"It is a big game and the boys realise the severity of the game. It's not about myself and my milestone or Kyal Horsley who plays his 100th, it's about where the context of the season is and knowing that we need to win this game to do our best to make the finals and finish as high up as we can," he said.

"What's happening is that everyone is playing for each other and we are playing as a team like we used to back in the day. In the last few years we probably have gone away from that a little, but this year we are definitely on the right track and hopefully we can make the finals.

"And from wherever we finish it could be anyone's game come finals time. We will give ourselves a chance whether we end up first or fourth."

As for the premiership success Rumble enjoyed in the first six years of his career, remarkably he is the last player left from the 2004 team playing at least at state league level while he is the only player also left at the club who played in the premiership hat-trick between 2006 and 2008.

Even Rumble finds himself looking around the change rooms at times amazed at how quickly a playing group in the WAFL can changeover.

"With Ben Randall having the year off, it's made me the last person from that era and you feel it too because you look around the club and there are so many new faces," he said.

"Then people who watched those years and come back to watch now and they don’t recognise a lot of the faces. It does make you feel old as well when you walk in the change room and there are so many young faces there."

For so many years Subiaco's back-line was the rock of the club and a remarkable unit not only with Rumble, but Aidan Parker, Ben Randall and Ben Keevers as the regulars with help from Broughton, Rob Forrest, Caine Hayes, Todd Holmes and a host of others.

Now Rumble is the last of those left as well at the club and he has enjoyed taking on more of a leadership role to help out young defenders like Daniel Leishman, Joel Latham and Charles Le Fanu.

"We do have some good players who have come in the last three or four years, and added some this year as well so although it's not the same faces there in the back-line, it is still working pretty well and the game plan that we've got has changed a fair bit.

"We are still learning it in some ways, but we are getting there and it is slowly becoming strong even without those premiership names on the team sheet."