Adam Schneider’s retirement on Tuesday leaves just two links to one of the most significant triumphs in Sydney Swans/South Melbourne Football Club’s history.

Schneider featured in the 2005 Premiership side alongside two players who, after ‘Schneid’s’ farewell match at Etihad Stadium on Sunday, will be the only two left that glorious era - Sean Dempster and Adam Goodes.

Schneider will bid farewell having played 98 games for the Swans and what will be 130 games for St Kilda after the small forward was traded at the end of season 2007.

Dempster joined him in the same trade.

Schneider, then 21, collected nine disposals of the thrilling encounter in front of 91,828-strong crowd at the MCG.

The last members of the 2005 Premiership side to retire were Lewis Robert Thomson and Ryan O’Keefe, with LRT succumbing to recurring injury while O’Keefe tried to find another home before a change of heart.

Both called time at the end of last season.

Before then there have been a steady stream of retirements including Jude Bolton, Darren Jolly in 2013, Amon Buchanan in 2012, Paul Bevan and Tadgh Kennelly in 2011.

A total of seven players said goodbye over the 2008-09 seasons.

With Dempster, 31, signing on for another season and Goodes, 35, still playing exceptional football the glory days of 2005 will be prolonged for a little while yet.

Adam Goodes and Sean Dempster remain the only two premiership Swans still playing from the 2005 triumph.