Five goals in a game these days is worth six or seven in a game 30 or 40 years ago. Some might even say it’s like an eight; which puts Logan Morris in some pretty special company.

Certainly, Morris’ career-best five-goal bag in an 11-point Gabba loss to the GWS Giants on Saturday was one of few shining lights in the gloom of Jack Payne’s season-ending knee injury.

Among 356 Brisbane players all-time he was the 50^th to kick five goals in a game. Thirty-five days beyond his 20^th birthday, he was the seventh-youngest. And, significantly, the youngest in almost 20 years.

Daniel Bradshaw is the youngest in club history to kick five at 18 years 185 days in just his fifth game in 1997, followed by Chris Scott (19/39 in 1995), Jason Akermanis (19/154 in 1996), Jonathan Brown (19/188 in 2001), Mitch Clark (19/219 in 2007) and Darryl White (20/28 in 1993).

Morris, who will forever be remembered for his ‘two games in one day’ AFL debut in Round 8 last year, enjoyed a real breakout game in similarly rare circumstances.

Having been the Lions third tall forward behind Joe Daniher and Eric Hipwood through the 2024 premiership campaign, he found himself the #1 man in front of the big sticks on Saturday.

With Daniher having retired, Morris was left one out after quarter-time against the Giants when Hipwood, playing in recent weeks as a forward/ruck, was swung into defence to cover the loss of Payne.

And while much of the post-game media focus was on the five-goal breakout game of the Giants’ Aaron Cadman – and not unreasonably – the entirely different circumstances of the young spearheads didn’t go unnoticed in the Brisbane camp.

While Cadman worked in tandem with Coleman Medallist Jesse Hogan against the depleted Brisbane defence Morris found himself waging almost a solo battle against two of the League’s premier defenders in GWS’ Jack Buckley and Sam Taylor.

Morris, carrying a load far above his age and experience, now has 25 goals this year to sit equal 12^th on the AFL goal-kicking list.

He trails only Geelong’s Jeremy Cameron (44), Hogan (38), Collingwood’s Jamie Elliott (34), Gold Coast’s Ben King (33), Port’s Mitch Georgiades (32), St.Kilda’s Jack Higgins (30), Adelaide’s Darcy Fogarty (28), Hawthorn’s Jack Gunston (28), Adelaide’s Riley Thilthorpe (28), Carlton’s Charlie Curnow (27) and North’s Nick Larkey (27), and equal Hawthorn’s Mabior Chol (25) and Adelaide’s Ben Keays (25).

And he’s the youngest – by almost three years. Thilthorpe (22), Georgiades (23) and King (24) are the only others below 25.

So, just as Morris’ first game will long be remembered, his 32^nd game will be too.