If a player looks at his statistics these days and sees he’s had 30+ possessions, including 15+ contested possessions, 10+ tackles and 10+ clearances he’d rightfully be pretty pleased.

It’s a power-plus performance for which the statisticians don’t yet have a catchy name.

Some might add up the four components and call it a ‘Super 65’ but parochially there’s an argument to say it could be known as a “Bull” after Matt Rowell, the SUNS’ own ‘Raging Bull’.

Because a blitzkrieg of this magnitude, reserved for the very best inside midfielders in the competition, has only been seen three times this year – and Rowell has two of them.

His second was in a masterful performance in QClash 29 at People First Stadium on Saturday, when he had a career-best 37 possessions (23 contested possessions), 12 tackles and 15 clearances (seven centre clearances). Plus 10 score involvements and seven inside 50s. All from 79% game time.

He was game-high for each of the ‘grunt’ statistics except tackles – Brisbane’s Josh Dunkley had 14 – and, significantly, he had more than twice as many clearances as any other player.

He was also game-high for metres gained at 730m as he took the Marcus Ashcroft Medal as best afield from captain Noah Anderson.

Rowell’s other ‘Super 65’ or ‘Bull’ performance this year was only two weeks earlier against Collingwood at People First Stadium, when he had 32 possessions (18 contested), 13 tackles and 12 clearances (one centre clearance), plus six score involvements and nine inside 50s.

The other ‘Bull’ game this year came from the Western Bulldogs’ Tom Liberatore against the SUNS in Darwin in Round 9. He just got there – 35 possessions (15 contested), 10 tackles and 10 clearances. GWS’ Tom Green fell one tackle short against the SUNS in Round 15.

Rowell’s brutal showing on Saturday as the SUNS hammered Brisbane by 66 points closed out an extraordinary three-game 16-day streak for the club that in 20 years will have historians scratching their heads.

It will look mind-boggling, having begun on July 11 with six-point home win over Collingwood, which was the 100^thwin in club history and the first over a side on top of the ladder.

It continued on July 20 with a dismal 61-point away loss to Adelaide described as the ‘kick in the nuts’ game by Damien Hardwick in which the SUNS posted the first goalless first half in club history. And wound up on Saturday, July 26 with the club’s biggest and best QClash win, surpassing the 64-point triumph of 2015 at People First Stadium.

The fact, too, that it was a win over the defending premiers without being a total shock to the competition was also significant. And certainly not the outright abnormality of the early days.

From 2011 to 2020 the SUNS had gone 0-12 against the defending premiers, losing by an average of 42.7 points and six times by more than 50.

But after a breakthrough away win in 2021 over 2020 premiers Richmond, then coached by Hardwick, they’ve followed with a narrow home loss to Melbourne in 2022, home wins over Geelong and Collingwood in 2023 and 2024, and, in 2025, an away loss and now a home win over Brisbane.

Indeed, now 323 games and 101 wins into life as an AFL club, eighth on the ladder and well-placed to challenge for the finals for the first time, the SUNS have come a long way.

The win over Brisbane was the club’s 12^th win of the year – the first time the club has had 12 wins in a season. And they still have five games to play.

It was Dimma’s first QClash win.

The Round 20 percentage of 119.5% is easily the club’s best at Round 20. Only twice previously has it been above 100% at this point of the season – 103.2% in 2022 and 101.1% in 2024.

It was only the second time the SUNS have won each quarter in a game against Brisbane. The other was in QClash 7 at People First Stadium when they won by 53 points.

The SUNS score of 20.10 (130) was the club’s second-biggest in QClash history, behind the 22.7 (139) of QClash 12 at People First Stadium in 2016, when they won by 26 points.

It was the first time the club has had six players top 30 possessions in the same game – Rowell (37), Anderson (33), Joel Jeffrey (32), Brayden Fiorini (32), John Noble (31) and Alex Davies (30). They had five at 30+ against Geelong in Darwin last year, when they kicked a club record 26-8 (164).

That day Anderson (42), Sam Flanders (37), Rowell (35), Touk Miller (32) and Alex Sexton (32) had 30+.

Davies, in his first game of the year and his 33^rd overall, hit 30 possessions for the first time. His previous best was 22, and only twice previously had he reached 20. He also had a career-high 16 contested possessions, 10 tackles and six clearances (second only to Rowell), and nine score involvements (behind only Ben Ainsworth’s 12 and Rowell).

Jeffrey had 32 possessions to equal his career-high of Round 17 against Essendon, while Fiorini’s 32 possessions in his 116^th game was his first 30+ game since his 88^th game in 2023.

The team possession count on Saturday of 436 was the equal best under coach Hardwick and only the third of 400+. The club’s all-time best is 498 in an 86-point win over Hawthorn at People First Stadium in 2017.

And, in a heart-warming triumph for persistence, Jy Farrar, who in 34 previous games had kicked just three career goals – all singles - kicked three more goals in his long-awaited return to the side, and had seven score involvements.

Despite wins over Collingwood and Brisbane in the last three rounds, the target for the SUNS to qualify for the finals for the first time still looks like 15 wins or 60 premiership points. And it could still come down to percentages.

That would be up two wins on last year, when Carlton took eighth place with 13 wins and a percentage of 110.2% from Collingwood, who had 12 wins and two draws and a percentage of 102.5%.

The likely qualification mark is up because of the inequity between the top nine sides and the others, who collectively have had only 11 wins against the finals contenders.

For the customary Monday post-scripts and forecasts as the run to September continues, the run home for the top nine sides is:

1st – Collingwood (15-0-4 – 60 points – 135.0%) 
To Play: Bris (MCG), Haw (MCG), Adel (AO), Melb (MCG).

2nd – Adelaide (14-0-5 – 56 points – 146.0%)
To Play: Haw (AO), WC (OS), Coll (AO), NM (Marvel). 

3rd – Brisbane (13-1-5 – 110.8%)
To Play: Coll (MCG), Syd (Gabba), Frem (OS), Haw (G). 

4th – Geelong (13-0-6 –  52 points - 134.2%)
To Play: Port (GMHBA), Ess (GMHBA), Syd (SCG), Rich (MCG).

5th – Hawthorn (13-0-6 – 52 points - 119.9%)
To Play: Adel (AO), Coll (MCG), Melb (MCG), Bris (G).

6th – GWS (13-0-6 – 52 points - 118.4%)
To Play: WB (Marvel), NM (MO), GC (PFS), Stk (ES).

7th – Fremantle (13-0-6 – 52 points - 111.7%)               
To Play: Carl (PS), Port (AO), Bris (PS), WB (Marvel).

8th - Gold Coast (12-0-6 – 48 points – 119.5%)
To Play: Rich (PFS), Carl (Marvel), GWS (PFS), Ess (PFS), Port (AO).

9th - Western Bulldogs (11-0-8 – 44 points - 132.6%)
To Play: GWS (Marvel), Melb (MCG), WC (Marvel), Frem (Marvel).