His three goals and a super goal against Port Adelaide led the Cats to a 2.10.7 (85) to 1.8.5 (65) win and into the quarter-finals of the Wizard Cup.
With the lead see-sawing in the last term, Graham marked 60 metres out on the left half-forward boundary line. Initially looking to feed it off, he composed himself, lined up and split the centre with one of his trademark bombs - Geelong by 14 points at the 12-minute mark.
Ten minutes later Graham again got the better of Port first-gamer Troy Chaplin, marking on the lead and kicking truly to stretch the lead to 20 points, which was the final margin.
"I probably missed a couple of shots that I should've got but they weren't far off the mark, so to go home with 4.2 and probably eight shots on goal is pleasing,'' Graham said.
"I would've probably had that (60m) shot during the regular season, but given that it was a nine-pointer in a crucial part of the game it was nice to put it through.
"I go through my routine, I only change my routine slightly if I'm outside 50m, which I was, but everything's the same.
"I just had to make sure that I gave it enough power to make the distance.''
Starting on forward-turned-backman Chad Cornes, Graham and his forward teammates endured a frustrating opening half with Geelong forced to go indirect with Port's negating style of play.
A restructured forward set-up in the second half, with Cameron Thurley and Kent Kingsley starting in the goal square and Matthew McCarthy, Shannon Byrnes and Graham across half-forward did the trick.
The Cats piled on eight goals to Port's three, with Graham booting all four of his majors in the second half.
"At times it can be (frustrating) but we can't just bomb it long when they've got numbers, pure and simple we've got to make sure we're smart enough and poised enough to pick the right option when we bring it through the midfield and when we do we score goals,'' Graham said.
"The most pleasing thing was that they tried to drop a player back most of the night, whether it was a ruckman or (Brett) Montgomery and we were able to combat that and I think we've got a good mix now, we've got three or four talls, we've got quick leading players that create space, we've got small crumbers and we're introducing new players like Shannon Byrnes and Cameron Thurley, who showed a bit tonight.
"We've still got Steve Johnson to return and Ricco only spent a small amount of time up forward tonight so we've got some options there if we can keep rotating them.
"Even though we didn't get off to a great start I think the coaches again showed great faith in us to say `they've done the job all summer, let's keep them out there'.
"All players know what the structure is, so it doesn't matter if you're a midfielder coming back or a defender that's come down, everyone knows what the structure is.''
