Sydney's mauling of West Coast at the SCG on Saturday has rewritten the record books with several categories broken or entered.
The Swans kicked over 200 points in the 171-point thrashing of the rock-bottom Eagles, with the final score 31.19 (205) to 5.4 (34).
The Sporting News goes through all the numbers from the extraordinary thrashing.
Scoring records
- The Swans' total of 205 is the first time a team has kicked over 200 since Geelong scored 233 in the 186-point belting of Melbourne in 2011
- It was Sydney's second-highest score behind the 236 amassed against Essendon in round 17, 1987
- Sydney's three-quarter-time score of 164 is a club record
- West Coast's score of 34 is the equal-13th lowest in the club's history
- It was the highest score West Coast has ever conceded
Margin records
- 171 points is the equal-highest margin attained in Sydney/South Melbourne history, alongside their win against St Kilda in 1919
- The winning margin was the fourth-biggest in AFL history, with only Fitzroy (190 points-1979), Geelong (186-2011) and Collingwood (178-1979) enjoying larger victories
- It was the biggest loss in West Coast's history, comfortably beating their previous largest defeat of 142 points against Essendon in 1989
- West Coast have now suffered 14 losses by 100-plus points in their history with four of them occurring in 2023
Percentage records
- West Coast's current percentage of 47.3 is only higher than the finishing percentage of two teams in AFL/VFL history since 1945 - St Kilda (45.39 per cent in 1955) and GWS (46.17 per cent in 2012)
Goal records
- Sydney kicked 18 goals in a row between the second and last quarters. This was the fourth-biggest consecutive goal streak since 2009 behind Geelong (23 vs Fremantle in 2018), Bulldogs 21 vs Essendon in 2019) and Port Adelaide (19 vs Carlton in 2021)
What the coaches said after the match
Adam Simpson (West Coast)
"I’m pretty embarrassed about today," Simpson said.
"We tried lots of things, but none of them worked.
"From start to finish, we were on the back foot and we couldn’t gain any type of ascendancy at all.
"In the end, we got what we deserved.
"We can’t make too many changes at the moment, we’ve got two guys playing in the WAFL, so outside of keep taking steps forward and keep trying to lead as well as we can, that’s the only way you can go.
"We exposed some kids who just aren’t quite ready for AFL and some of our senior players were below their best, so when you get that combination, plus a couple more injuries, you get a game like today.
"A lot of those guys with a full list, senior and younger players, wouldn’t be playing. We haven’t got much of a choice."
John Longmire (Sydney)
"From our perspective - from go to woe - it was really good quality team football. A really high-quality game," Longmire said.
"It’s not so much about the percentages, it’s the outcome and it’s the way we went about it was terrific to watch. It was a really good team performance. Everyone contributing when they needed to and everyone sharing the load. It was a high-quality team performance which was the biggest thing.
"You know what’s worked and there’s three quarters of it and it was just a matter of going one more quarter and they were able to do it.
"There’s times as a coach that you step back and let the players go. I didn’t have much involvement, they were in the moment and they knew what they had to do."
