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Scott Pendlebury heard about the snake through his physiotherapist. The Collingwood captain was only days away from seeing his family for the first time in a month when word filtered through that his wife, Alex, and their two young children had a close encounter in their quarantine hub. Alex was taking the youngsters for a lap around the lagoon on their hotel ground when their three-year-old son Jax came within a few feet of an angry python. Thankfully, the man who will on Monday night break Collingwood’s games record isn’t the only quick-thinking one in the family. On this occasion, it was mum’s reflexes which helped pull their son to safety. “I’m petrified of snakes, so I would have reacted horribly,” Pendlebury said. “Alex didn’t tell me. Our physio said, ‘What’s this about Jax almost jumping on a snake?’. So I called Alex straight away. “And, yeah, he jumped off the board walk on to a sandcastle that was on the beach and when he hit the sand castle there was this massive python.“It reared its head straight up at him.