Lienert-Brown will play his 50th game of Super Rugby, if selected, when the Highlanders take on the Blues at Eden Park on Friday night.
He played a couple of games for the Crusaders in 2014 before he joined the Highlanders early in the 2015 season, coming into the side for Ma'afu Fia, who had injured a knee.
Lienert-Brown (25) was a loosehead prop while Fia was a tighthead but the Highlanders decided to go with Lienert-Brown.
Since he joined he has been a mainstay and had missed just four games since the start of the 2016 season.
The older brother by two years of All Black midfielder Anton, he may be an ever-present for the Highlanders for the past couple of years but seeing out the whole game is something he has never done.
Such is the role of a prop these days, he gets either 50 minutes starting or the last half an hour if coming off the bench.
``I have never played a full 80 minutes of Super Rugby. That is just how it is. We have got good back-up who do the job when they get on,'' he said.
``They [the coaches] don't tell you but it is usually the same blueprint they are coming from. I think it's about 10 minutes into the second half. You just have to dig in that bit extra but if they see you slackening off they pull you off.
``Pretty much every time you want to carry on but it is the best for the team.''
At 113kg, he has bulked up for the front row in recent seasons.
Whether that will be enough to get him to the next level and play for the All Blacks is up in the air.
Loosehead props are thin on the ground in New Zealand due to injury and retirement. Lienert-Brown has been mentioned as a possible candidate for the black jersey.
He said that possibility simply came down to playing well.
``Sometimes the game comes your way a bit more and you will feel it the next day. Other games not so much and vice-versa.
``If you want to put yourself up for selection you can only do the best you can. You can decide what you can do but it is not your decision.''
Getting into All Black consideration was furthest from his mind last year when a serious injury put his career in jeopardy.
``We were warming up second round of the Mitre 10 Cup against Otago and we were just doing some scrums and I loaded up through my head and I heard a big pop. I ended up prolapsing a disc through my neck.
``At the time when they tell you that you mightn't be playing rugby any more, it is pretty scary. But I went to see the specialist and he had a bit more to do with these injuries and he said it should be right. I had to have a scan thee months later to look at the injury. If it had not improved it would have been surgery. But I was pretty lucky the bulge just shrunk and it is not causing me any problems.
``You just now become more grateful, well, you should always be grateful to play footy - that is my dream to play footy and my job.''