Jake Lloyd is now the fifth-highest possession-winner in recorded Swans history.
And after his third game of the season, Luke Parker is now equal fifth on the Swans’ all-time game list as he and Lloyd find themselves among a ‘Who’s Who?’ of the red and white.
Parker played his 286th game against the Western Bulldogs on Sunday to draw level with Ryan O’Keefe behind only Adam Goodes (372), Jude Bolton (325), Jarrad McVeigh (325) and Michael O’Loughlin (303), with Josh Kennedy (277), John Rantall (260) and Heath Grundy and Kieren Jack (256) completing the top 10.
Lloyd's 25 possessions in Sunday’s game against the Western Bulldogs took his career tally to 5839 and saw him move past Jude Bolton (5831).
The 30-year-old ex-rookie, now 16th on the club games list, trails only Josh Kennedy (7137), Luke Parker (6705), Adam Goodes (6390) and Jarrad McVeigh (6264) on a possession leaderboard which dates back to the introduction of statistics in 1985.
Completing the top 10 are Daryn Cresswell (5601), Ryan O’Keefe (5154), Dan Hannebery (5069) and Kieren Jack (5029).
It’s another gold star on the career of the Horsham boy who joined the Swans via the North Ballarat Rebels and pick #16 in the 2012 AFL rookie draft.
He also ranks 7th on the Swans list of 30-game possessions with 43, behind Kennedy (85), Barry Mitchell (61), Hannebery (57), Greg Williams (51), Parker (46) and Cresswell (44), and ahead of Bob Skilton (30), Gerard Healy (29) and Jarrad McVeigh (28).
That Skilton would rank 8th on this list is nothing short of staggering given statistics were only kept in 98 of his 237 games.
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Tom McCartin takes a great intercept mark to halt the Bulldogs attack. Mark of the Week, presented by QATAR Airways
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Lloyd, club champion in 2018 and 2020, also has written his name into the AFL’s all-rookie records. He sits 29th on the rookie’s games list headed by Hawthorn’s Luke Breust (294), Western Bulldogs Matthew Boyd (292) and West Coast ruckman turned Swans assistant-coach Dean Cox (290), but is fourth among ex-rookie ball-winners.
The only three players ahead of him are Boyd (7313), West Coast Brownlow Medallist Matt Priddis (6279) and Adelaide’s Rory Laird (6589).
The Swans continue to dominate the AFL Class of Rookie Graduates, with Harry Cunningham becoming the 47th ex-rookie to play 200 games in Round 19, and Robbie Fox the 146th 100-gamer last weekend.
The Swans have produced 12 of the 146 rookies who have played 100 games – Paul Bevan, Cunningham, Fox, Heath Grundy, Kieren Jack, Tadhg Kennelly, Brett Kirk, Lloyd, Tom Papley, Mike Pyke, Dane Rampe and Nick Smith. Fremantle and Collingwood are next best with nine.
The club has also had the most 200-game rookies at six – Cunningham, Jack, Kirk, Lloyd, Rampe and Smith.
Also, despite being the 83rd of 100 first-time draftees in 2013, Lloyd ranks 4th for games played by products of his draft year. Port Adelaide’s Ollie Wines, pick #7, and the Bulldogs’ Jack Macrae, pick #6, have played 246 – one more than injured Swan Rampe, who was drafted eight spots after Lloyd in the rookie draft.
Lloyd is also third on the Class of 2014 possession list behind Macrae (6868) and Wines (6165).
The other statistical highlight to come out on Sunday’s game was Matt Roberts’ career-best 36 possessions – up from his previous best of 26. He also had a career-best 10 contested possessions.
Roberts, who has still only played 23 games, has had 81 possessions in the last three games, stepping up in the absence of Justin McInerney and James Rowbottom.
He was also a superstar performer with 161 points in the AFL Supercoach competition, earning most points by any player in Round 20. Next best were North’s Harry Sheezel (160) and Tristan Xerri (151), Collingwood’s Nick Daicos (147) and the Bulldogs’ Adam Treloar (146).
