FREMANTLE captain Matthew Pavlich and coach Ross Lyon, Richmond coach Damien Hardwick, Gold Coast coach Guy McKenna and recently retired Geelong champion Matthew Scarlett are among eight people to be awarded life membership of the AFL.
They will be granted the honour at the League's annual general meeting on the eve of the home and away season.
Pavlich, Lyon, Hardwick, McKenna and Scarlett all qualified for life membership automatically by playing or coaching in a total of 300 games. Each reached the milestone during the 2012 season.
Former Richmond star Michael Green, ex-Collingwood player and club president Kevin Rose and West Coast chief executive Trevor Nisbett will also be awarded life membership under the provision of 'Special Service to the Game'.
Green played 146 games for Richmond between 1966-71 and 1973-75, including the premierships of 1967, 1969, 1973 and 1974, and was named in the back pocket in the club's team of the century.
After his retirement as a player, he served on the Richmond board and match committee and spent time as the club's reserves coach and as a senior assistant coach.
Since 1995 he has been a director of AFL SportsReady and a member of the AFL Tribunal (1995-98) and the AFL Appeals Board (1998-present).
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