One great finals game is all it can take see your name etched amongst the greatest to pull on the boots.

Max Gawnโ€™s performance last Friday against Geelong is one of these performances. Honestly, I was shocked he didnโ€™t crack the double ton on Supercoach.

19 disposals, five goals, six tackles 33 hit-outs and five clearances is a stat line any ruckman would give their left leg for.

'Big Maxyโ€™s prelim' performance left me pondering some of the greatest acts seen over the last 50 years.

Excluding Grand Finals and brilliant quarters such as Nick Davis โ€˜Come to Savisโ€™ and Anthony Koutoufidies' efforts in '99, I have narrowed down a top 10 of individual games that will go down in the annals of Australian rules history.

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4. Jeff Farmer - 2000 Preliminary Final

16 disposals, 13 kicks, four marks, three handballs, four tackles and 8.1 

Despite playing in the millennium year's finals series with a broken rib, the 'Wizard', Jeffery Farmer, was on a rampage in 2000 after finishing the home-and-away season with 65 goals.

Farmer, taught opponent and future Norm Smith Medalist Byron Pickett a lesson in mercurial goal-kicking, on his way to five majors at half-time. The deadeyed goalsneak then kicked his eighth and final goal in the last quarter - a period that also saw Craig Sholl kick four-goals in his last quarter of footy.