It’s 30 minutes of football that no Swans fan will ever forget, and it happened the last time Geelong came to the SCG.

'Nick Davis, Come to Save Us', read the fans’ placards, and no truer words were ever spoken.

Former Swans coach Paul Roos says Davis’ four goal performance in the last quarter of the 2005 semi-final is without doubt the best quarter of finals football ever played by anyone.

Take your mind back to Friday September 9, 2005, to the SCG where the Swans were taking on Geelong in a do-or-die semi.

It was a slog from the start, on an SCG ground that was muddy and slippery.

The Swans had flown back from Perth the previous weekend, smarting after a bitterly disappointing four point loss to the West Coast Eagles in the qualifying final at Subiaco.

The long road trip seemed to be taking its toll as the Swans trudged through the first three quarters against the Cats at the SCG. By the last break, the Swans had barely troubled the goal umpires, and were four goals down.

The obituaries were being written in the press box.

But then, Nick Davis, the ex-Collingwood player who had grown up in Sydney, played the most extraordinary quarter of football, kicking four goals to help the Swans to a famous three point victory which propelled the team to a preliminary final and ultimately the 2005 premiership.

Davis always had huge talent. He’d often roost the ball from outside 50m through the big posts, he was elusive in congestion and had great footy smarts. Endurance was never his forte, but he was mercurial and beautifully skilled.

It all came together on that night in September….

“It was a very special night,’’ Davis recalled this week when he took a short break from his duties as a coach at the QBE Sydney Swans Academy.

“It was a scrappy night and we were trying our best, things weren’t going our way,  but in the end I was able to kick four goals and we got over the line.’’

Davis is urging all Swans fans to be at the SCG this Saturday night, when the Cats return to the ground for the first time since then.

“You never know what can happen when the Cats come to the SCG!,’’Davis said.

“The boys now under John Longmire have a good belief in each other and that’s what we had in 2005 - that belief and trust in each other as a group.’’