Isaac Heeney did something at the SCG on Saturday that no other AFL player has done in 5242 games since 1999 – he had 30 possessions and 13 clearances and kicked five goals.

And, in a statistical haul that will challenge the best of any in AFL history, he also had 16 contested possessions, 11 score involvements, nine inside 50s and five tackles – all in only 81 per cent game time in the Swans’ 31-point win over North Melbourne.

Little wonder Heeney momentarily threw a questioning glance at coach Dean Cox when, five minutes from full-time, he took him out of the game and sat him on the bench.

“I thought I could have just played deep and maybe kicked another goal,” he told FoxFooty with a smile post-match before acknowledging that with the game against North in the bag Cox’ priority was Friday night’s Sydney Derby against GWS at the Showgrounds.

Heeney’s five goals was an equal career-best and the sixth five-goal bag of his career and his 11 score involvements was a career-best, while his 13 clearances and nine inside 50s were equal career-best, and his 16 contested possessions was two short of his best.

His five goals took his career tally to 289 and equal 13^th on the club’s all-time list with 1909 premiership player Len Mortimer. He’s eight goals behind Tom Papley (297) and 28 behind Warwick Capper (317) as he and Papley close in on 10^th-placed Peter Bedford (325).

Heeney’s 13 clearances is only three short of the club record of 16, held by Josh Kennedy, and has been bettered only by five players in Swans history – Kennedy (16), Daryn Cresswell (15), Brett Kirk (15), Paul Kelly (14), Jarrad McVeigh (14) and Luke Parker (14).

The nearest thing in Swans history to Heeney’s 34-5-13 ‘super-game’ was Kennedy’s 45 possessions, three goals and 11 clearances in a 90-point win over Fremantle at Subiaco in 2016.

Paul Kelly had 33-3-14 in an 81-point loss to Adelaide at Football Park in 1999, Luke Parker 26-4-9 in a 63-point win over Adelaide at Adelaide Oval in 2014, and Cresswell 32-2-12 in a 33-point win over Fremantle at the WACA in 1999, and 35-4-6 in a 71-point win over West Coast at the SCG in 2000.

Even disregarding clearances, the single-game double of 30 possessions and five goals has been a rare achievement since the introduction of possession statistics in 1965, achieved just 11 times by nine different Swans players.

Statistically, the best individual performance in that time was Greg Williams’ club record 53 possessions and six goals against St Kilda at the SCG in Round 19, 1989. He also had 37 possessions and five goals in 1991.

Bob Skilton, whose possession counts went unrecorded through his first nine years and 139 games (when he kicked five goals or more 15 times), had 42 possessions and seven goals against St Kilda at Lake Oval in Round 1, 1968.

Stephen Wright had 30 possessions and eight goals against West Coast at the SCG in 1987, when the home side won by 130 points, while Peter Bedford notched 30 possessions and seven goals against North Melbourne at Lake Oval in 1971, and 31 possessions and five goals against what was then Footscray at Lake Oval in 1973.

Greg Smith had 44 possessions and five goals when the Swans kicked 30.19 (199) against St Kilda in the club’s 7^th game at the SCG in 1982 before their full-scale relocation to Sydney in 1983.

Barry Mitchell recorded 32 possessions and five goals in 1986, when the Swans came from 18 points down at three-quarter time to beat Collingwood by one point at Victoria Park.

Michael O’Loughlin kicked five goals to go with 31 possessions – the only 30-possession game of his 303-game career – in the Swans’ first game at Marvel Stadium, in Round 1, 2000 against St Kilda, when Ryan Fitzgerald kicked five goals on debut.

And Parker had 31 possessions and five goals at the Olympic Stadium in 2015 against Geelong.

The Swans single-game possession record for a player who has kicked nine goals was set by Bernie Evans who had 26 in1985, while the equivalent record for a player who has kicked 10 goals is the 25 possessions of Lance Franklin in 2017.

The career-best 16-goal assault of Tony Lockett in 1995 came from 21 possessions which is the most by a Swans player kicking 11 or more goals in a game, remembering that prior to 1965 Bob Pratt kicked five bags of 11-plus (11-11-11-12-15), Lindsay White kicked two (11-12) and Harold Robertson one (14).