On the eve of his 300th game in a crucial final against Geelong, Collingwood skipper Scott Pendlebury has revealed that he would like to hand over the captaincy while he is still playing and continue under the new leader.

Pendlebury said he had benefitted from still having premiership skipper Nick Maxwell at the club and playing when he took over the captaincy for the 2014 season.

Scott Pendlebury alongside images of fellow premiership greats Gordon Coventry and Tony Shaw. Credit:AAP

Pendlebury, who made the all-Australian team for the fifth time in his 14th season and has rivalled Brodie Grundy as his team's best performer this year, also said that he would step away from football if he felt he had slipped to the point that he was "dropping away", holding others back or was only playing because of his name.

"It sounds funny but I haven't thought about the end or how far away that is or how close,'' Pendlebury told The Age when asked about how long he could continue to play on.