1. Round 4, 2013, SCG:
Geelong 19.10 (124) def Sydney Swans 16.7 (103)
A dour, defensive contest was expected, yet the game in the opposite fashion, with the teams kicking 15 goals between them in the opening quarter. The match tightened up in the second term, before the Cats blew the Swans away by kicking seven goals to one in the third quarter. Geelong then held sway in the final term and won by 21 points. Joel Selwood finished with 30 possessions, nine tackles, seven clearances, seven inside 50s and a goal, while Tom Hawkins and Steven Motlop kicked three goals each.

Steve Johnson and Mathew Stokes celebrate a goal during the Cats' win over the Swans in 2013 (AFL Photos)

2. Rnd 12, 2002, SCG:
Geelong 15.11 (101) def Sydney Swans 15.9 (99)
The Swans, who were in their last season under Rodney Eade, had the better of the first half, taking a 17-point lead into the long break. Bomber Thompson's Cats narrowed the margin to eight points by the final change, and the contest then went down to wire. Geelong headed home happy after Charlie Gardiner bobbed up with the match-winning goal.

3. Round 1, 1976, Lake Oval:
Geelong 25.7 (157) def South Melbourne 23.15 (153)
The game was a shootout from the start, with the teams piling on 24 goals between them in the first staff. Little changed in the second half, and by the final siren the contest had become a 48-goal festival of attacking footy. Having led by 26 points at the last change, the Cats survived a late comeback from the Swans to win by just four points. John 'Sammy' Newman was best on ground for Geelong, while Larry Donohue kicked seven goals and Terry Bright four. Donohue would win the Coleman Medal that year after finishing the season with 99 goals.

An article about Geelong's 1976 win over the Swans, which was published in The Age

4. Rnd 23, 2011, Simonds Stadium:
Geelong 12.14 (86) def by Sydney Swans 15.9 (99)
Geelong went into the game having won 29 consecutive matches at Simonds Stadium. But the Swans, who were coming off an extremely emotional few days following the death of Jarrad McVeigh's infant daughter, stormed the Cats' fortress and scored a gutsy 17-point win. At the time, the loss was seen as a blow to Geelong's premiership hopes, but the Cats didn't lose another game that year. Five five weeks after being beaten by the Swans, Chris Scott's men defeated Collingwood in the Grand Final.

5. Semi-final, 2005, SCG:
Geelong 7.11 (53) def by Sydney Swans 7.14 (56)
The fact that the Cats have won three premierships since this game is the reason it can feature in an article like this. Few Geelong fans need reminding that the Cats led by four points at quarter-time, 20 at half-time and 17 at three-quarter time, before Swans forward Nick Davis bobbed up with four extraordinary goals in the final term. Davis's match-winning goal, which he slotted with just 45 seconds seconds remaining, was immortalised by the reaction of then-Channel 10 commentator Anthony Hudson, who exclaimed, "Nick Davis, Nick Davis, I don't believe it. I see it, but I don't believe it!"

 Michael O'Loughlin embraces Nick Davis after Davis almost single-handedly sunk Geelong in 2005 (AFL Photos)

And don't miss this week's episode of Throwback Thursday in which Cats great Cameron Mooney looks back at Geelong's win over the Swans in the final round of the 2000 home and away season