Jude Bolton finished yesterday’s draw against Melbourne with three second-half goals, and none were more spectacular than his final effort - a crucial 25 metre set-shot after a brilliant lunging, one-handed mark in the final quarter. 

“Jude’s got tricks we didn’t know he had,” cried Channel 7’s Bruce McAvaney after Bolton, running backwards at full pace, plucked the ball out of mid-air with his left hand while falling to the ground, earning SwansTV's Play of the Day in the process.

Leading 74 to 68 at the time, Bolton went back and coolly slotted the goal - the side’s only one for the final quarter - which proved pivotal in the Swans having enough breathing space to hold on for a draw in the frantic final stages.

Dan Hannebery produced a similar mark inside the forward 50 in the second quarter and was definitely in contention, as was Andrejs Everitt’s first goal for the club, and Jude Bolton’s second goal, both converting long passages of play that started across half-back.