Would it be premature to regard Josh Kennedy as a Sydney Swans great following his back-to-back Club Champion win on Thursday night?

Consider the esteemed company Kennedy, now a three-time Bob Skilton Medallist, joins.

Billy Williams, Rob Clegg, Gerard Healy and Adam Goodes have three Club Champion awards to their name while only Herbie Matthews, Peter Bedford, Paul Kelly and Bob Skilton himself have won more.

Seven of those names are members of the Sydney Swans Team of the Century.

The only one missing, Goodes, would have been a foregone selection had the dual Brownlow Medallist been born several decades earlier.

Goodes is among seven of those who have won the league's highest individual honour.

A 'Charlie', one would feel, is not out of the equation for the newest member of the Club’s elite in Kennedy.

Laying all those distinguished names in front of him, Kennedy was near speechless and “incredibly humbled” at the thought of his own floated alongside such greats of the football club.

“I’m quite shocked, to be honest,” Kennedy said backstage.

“It was a raffle at the end there. I think if it had of gone to anyone in the top seven or 10, no one would be arguing because there was such an even contribution across the season.

“I thought it was anyone’s (but) I’m very humbled to be here now.”

Who would have thought when he and Hawthorn teammate Ben McGlynn arrived in Sydney in 2009 that Kennedy, a name so synonymous in the brown and gold, would go on to carve out such an impactful career in only a short amount of time.

Kennedy has placed on the podium in each of his seven years at the Swans and, at only 28 years of age, presumably has plenty of A-grade football ahead of him – so there could well be more accolades to come.

After all, Skilton was the same age when the nine-time winner won his final two Club Champion awards back-to-back in 1967 and 1968.

Kennedy’s supreme ability to win the hard ball, having topped the competition for contested possessions two years running, doesn’t seem to be slowing down and as long as the Swans keep featuring in September Kennedy’s stature will keep rising having proved himself time and again as a player built for the big stage.

With three Bob Skilton medals to his name already, could there be more on the horizon?

“I just want to try and hang on and be part of things in the future,” a modest Kennedy said. “Because the future is looking very bright.”