Thirty possessions and four goals in a game is a special day’s work. So special that in 779 AFL games over 33 years (and one round) only four Eagles players have achieved it.

Chris Judd did so in round five, 2006 to top the Eagles “best of round five” memories.

It was in a 59-point win over the Brisbane Lions at Subiaco in which Shannon Hurn made his AFL debut and the Eagles took another step towards the ’06 premiership.

In his 97^th game at 22, the brilliant Judd had a career-best 39 possessions and kicked four goals, which was one short of his best.

Who were other three?

The first player will surprise many. It was a player who, by virtue of the fact that he was the only player with a surname starting with “A” in the Eagles’ first team in 1987, is listed as player #1 on the all-time playing list.

Returning home after stints at Collingwood and Richmond, ex-Claremont midfielder John Annear had his big day out in the sixth Eagles game against North Melbourne at Subiaco. And it wasn’t just 30 and four … it was 30 and five. An all-time club standout.

Annear, 25 and playing his 114^th AFL game, had 34 possessions and kicked five goals in a 24.8 (162) to 13.10 (88) win.

It must have been an unobtrusive 30 and five - he didn’t get even one Brownlow Medal vote. They went to Robert Wiley (three) for 28 possessions and three goals, Dwayne Lamb (two) for 31 possessions and one goal, and Murray Wrensted (one) for 30 possessions.

It was 18 years before West Coast had another 30/4 double, and then there were two in 12 weeks.

Ben Cousins had both in 2005 – 31 and four against the Western Bulldogs in round four (two votes) and 30 and four against Brisbane in round 16 (three votes).

The only other player in the exclusive 30/4 club is Andrew Embley. He had 32 possessions and four goals in round 19, 2009 against the Bulldogs (three votes) and 32 and four in round two, 2011 against Port Adelaide (3 votes).

Round five at a glance

Round five has been a mixed one for the Eagles, with 16 wins, 14 losses, a draw and two byes.

They’ve played Brisbane five times for four wins and a draw, but are 0-4 against Port Adelaide at the other end of the scale, and have never played Collingwood, Essendon, Gold Coast, North Melbourne or St Kilda in round five.

They are 2-0 against Melbourne, 2-2 against Richmond, 2-3 against Hawthorn, 1-0 against Adelaide, Fremantle, GWS and the Western Bulldogs, 1-2 v Sydney and 0-1 against Geelong.

They’ve gone 8-5 at home – 6-4 at Subiaco, 2-0 at the WACA and 0-1 at Optus Stadium.

They are unbeaten in Queensland in round five – 1-0 at the Gabba and 1-1-0 at Carrara – and have not won in NSW (0-2 at the SCG), South Australia (0-1 at Football Park) and Tasmania (0-1 in Launceston). And they are 6-5 in Victoria – 3-2 at the MCG, 1-0 at Waverley and Docklands, 1-2 at Princes Park and 0-1 at Kardinia Park.

Mainy’s most votes

Twenty years since his last game Chris Mainwaring has still polled most round five Brownlow Medal votes among Eagles players with seven.

He got his first votes when judged best afield in round five, 1987 when West Coast beat Hawthorn by 12 points at Princes Park, collecting 26 possessions and kicking a goal in the debut of David Hart and Andrew Lockyer.

Seven for Ross

Ross Glendinning kicked an Eagles-best seven goals in the round five, 1988 WACA Ground win over Footscray, as they were then called. It was a haul second only to his career-best of 10 goals straight for North Melbourne against Melbourne at the MCG in 1979.

Six on debut

Stevan Jackson has two special points of difference in his AFL career – one in football and one an extreme oddity that is pure gold for trivia buffs.

A South Fremantle product who played 38 games with West Coast from 1989-91 and 21 games with Richmond in 1992-93, he is the only ‘Stevan’ (as distinct from Stephen and Steven) among 12,774 AFL players all-time.

And he shares with Daniel Metropolis the record of most goals on debut for the Eagles at six.

In round five, 1989, when the Eagles monstered the Brisbane Bears in the second half at Carrara to win by 52 points, 19-year-old Jackson kicked 6.1. Karl Langdon in his 19^th game kicked an equal career-best four in the same game.

Jackson had a personal free kick count on debut of 0-6. Only three players in Eagles history have given away more free kicks in a game. Andrew MacNish (1988), Langdon (1992) and Elliot Yeo (Round 1 this year) each conceded seven.

Like Judd in his 30/4 double, Jackson’s brilliant debut went unnoticed by the umpires. The Brownlow votes went to Dwayne Lamb (22 possessions three goals), Chris Mainwaring (19 possessions) and Michael Brennan (19 possessions).

Eight for Sumich

The Eagles record for most goals kicked in a round fiver is eight and belongs to Peter Sumich.

It came in 1990 when they beat Sydney at Subiaco by 60 points, and was something of a statistical oddity. He had 12 kicks and 12 scoring shots – eight goals, four behinds.

It was one of five bags of eight for the player who sits second on the Eagles’ all-time goal-kicking list behind Josh Kennedy, and is third on his all-time list. He kicked 13 in one game in 1991 and 11 in 1992.

Ray who?

How many West Coast fans remember the name Ray Windsor?

He won the Larke Medal for the best player at the Australian under-18 championships in 1989, played 23 games for the Brisbane Bears from 1990-93, and was a member of the Bears reserves premiership side at 1991 on the day West Coast played Hawthorn in the grand final at Waverley.

Still can’t place him? Think about round five in 1992 at Carrara. He was the 19-year-old Bears player in just his 10^th game who kicked a goal after the siren to give the home side a draw.

It was Saturday night, April 18 in the club’s sixth season, when the Queenslander in just his 10^th AFL game for the Brisbane Bears kicked a goal after the final siren against West Coast at Carrara to level the scores.

It was West Coast’s second draw behind the 1990 drawn qualifying final against Collingwood.

The club had beaten Brisbane in eight previous meetings by an average of 40 points, led narrowly at each change and were seven points up at three-quarter time.

It was a tight final quarter, and when Dean Kemp put the Eagles a goal clear with 51 seconds to play it looked like it was over. Wrong!

West Australian David Bain, an East Perth product and the 1988 Sandover Medallist, won the ball on the wing and bombed it towards centre half forward.

Windsor marked on his chest and, knowing time was short, hurried back to his mark. The siren sounded just before he kicked the ball but he was into stride.  And from about 35m on a 30-degree angle he banged it over the goal umpire’s head to tie the scores.

It was Brisbane 14.8 (92) v West Coast 13.14 (92).

Kemp in his 50^th game earned one Brownlow Medal vote for his 31 possessions and a goal in what was an empty and deflating finish to John Worsfold’s 100^th game.

It was also a big night for 21-year-old Bears 12^th-gamer Peter Worsfold, who, in his 31-game AFL career, played for the only time against older brother John.

Note: The Larke Medal has been won by 13 West Australians – Grant Campbell (1979), Danny Southern (1992), Shaun McManus (1993), Garth Taylor (1998), Paul Hasleby (1999), Steven Armstrong (2001), Kepler Bradley (2003), Cale Morton (2007), David Swallow (2009), Harley Bennell (2010), Stephen Coniglio (2011), Dom Sheed (2012), Oscar Allen (2017) and Deven Robertson (2019).