It’s the 2005 semi-final between Sydney and Geelong at the SCG.

The Swans were 17 points down at three-quarter-time, having only scored three goals to that point in the game, the 39,079-strong home crowd were ready to call it a night.

Enter Nick Davis.

Just as Leo Barry’s mark would go down as the match-saving moment of the Grand Final, Davis’ heroics in the semi would go down as the season-saving moment of 2005.

Hardly seen all night, Davis puts what then coach Paul Roos describes as the “best individual performance in a quarter of football” together and kicks four incredible goals to steal victory.

“Throughout my career under Roosy it was always hard to get a compliment, so I’ll definitely take it,” Davis laughed.

“It was Roosy who changed our setup at three-quarter-time. He wanted the ball from the stoppages hit to the outside and my job was to be on the outside covering. It just so happened that four times in a row I ran to the right spot, kicked them and they all went through.

“We had to tackle every chance at the right time and thankfully we did that.”

Davis impact would be, on paper, less spectacular on Grand Final two weeks on having no say on the scoreboard and gathering only eight disposals.

But ask anyone and Davis’ role was just as important to the side’s drought-breaking triumph as the next.

“The West Coast midfield was chock full of superstars and my job that day was to get up around the midfield and help shut them down,” Davis said.

“We’ve been big on, for a long time here at the Swans, to play your role for the team and my role on Grand Final day was to do that.

“It was such an amazing feeling…it’s one of the great feeling in AFL football.”

With a premiership medal around his neck, Davis played on for another three seasons before retiring a proud Swan.

A proud Swan who now holds a position as development coach and whose name will forever be etched in club folklore for that season-saving and ultimately premiership-saving quarter.