Double century a game effort for North Melbourne defender Michael Firrito North Melbourne's Michael Firrito will play his 200th match against the Western Bulldogs at Etihad Stadium today. MICHAEL Firrito has to stop himself from slipping into player manager mode in the North Melbourne locker room. Naturally, the ultra-reliable backman has a high opinion of his young Kangaroos' teammates, who, one day, might become part of Firrito's own talent stable. The man, who today plays his 200th game, has a small stake in Strategic Management and says he wants to join the company's ranks as a player manager when he hangs up the boots. Firrito's teammates joke that he is quick to make friends with the club's newest recruit each year, perhaps sensing a business opportunity. "Yeah, I'm in the boys ears," Firrito said, laughing. (Football manager) Donald (McDonald) told me not to hand out business cards, but I may have slipped a couple into a few lockers. I'm managed by the boys at Strategic and once my playing days have finished, I'd love to get involved there and help a few players out. The career path suits the veteran Roo perfectly. The man who wears Glenn Archer's treasured No.11 guernsey has long been a favourite at Aegis Park, as much for his sacrificial game style as his easy-going and friendly nature. Two hundred games, he says, is "a helluva lot more" than the 29-year-old thought he would ever notch. But the Roos will today try to honour with a win the role Firrito has played, as the heartbeat of an under-sized backline for almost a decade. Like Archer, he plays aggressively, as a way of squeezing the most out of the talent he has. But that competitiveness perhaps contributed to the two costly 50m penalties the 190cm defender gave away in close losses in Rounds 1 and 2. He described the incidents as "shattering." "I think that's when I play my best football, when I'm at that line," he said. Sometimes it's always, I guess, a threat of my game, when I go too far and maybe go over the edge, so I need to find that balance. Earlier in the year I probably went over that line, but I need to steady myself and sum up every moment in the game. With 98 career wins and 99 losses to his name, a win over the Dogs at Etihad Stadium today would square the ledger, and help make up for being "whacked" by Brendan McCartney's men last year.