It was two and a half hours in a career that has spanned nine and half years, and it ended in defeat, but Sam Reid will long remember his performance last Friday night.

Reid’s six-goal effort against Collingwood at the SCG was described by AFL great Jason Dunstall as “one of the best forward’s games I’ve seen in a long time”.

Opposed to brother Ben, and quite often directly in the ruck, Reid also had 15 possessions (11 contested), six contested marks, five marks inside 50, seven hit-outs and three tackles.

He became the fourth Swans recipient of the Goodes-O’Loughlin Medal when judged best afield in the club’s annual Marn Grook fixture, joining Tom Mitchell (2016), Lance Franklin (2017) and Isaac Heeney (2018).

He received maximum votes from coaches John Longmire and Nathan Buckley in the AFL Coach’s Association Player of the Year Award.

And he claimed a further place in Swans’ statistical history with his six contested marks.

Since the AFL started keeping records of contested marks in 1999 only four Swans players have had more – Barry Hall (9), Callum Sinclair (8), Greg Stafford (7) and Reid himself (7).

Fifteen times has a Swans player had six contested marks – Hall did so six times, and Tony Lockett, Franklin, Daniel Bradshaw, Mike Pyke, Shane Mumford, Ted Richards, Adam Goodes, Jason Saddington and now Reid have done so once.

Reid’s powerhouse effort against Collingwood saw him rocket up the AFL leaderboard for contested marks this season – he now has 18 to trail only Carlton’s Harry McKay (27), Western Bulldogs’ Aaron Naughton (26), Hawthorn’s Ben McEvoy (25), Fremantle’s Matt Taberner and Rory Lobb (24), St Kilda’s Josh Bruce (21) and Richmond’s Tom Lynch (19), and is level with  Melbourne’s Max Gawn (18).

Reid’s six-goal haul equalled his career-best haul posted twice previously in 2012 and 2017.

It was the seventh time the Reid brothers have played against each other in the AFL, with 30-year-old Ben now enjoying a 4-3 head-to-head record against 27-year-old Sam.