The 2022 AFL season provided us with multitudinous memorable contests, throughout both the home-and-away season and the finals series.

Thrilling, edge-of-the-seat blockbusters were the norm, with one of the stories of the season being Collingwood's consistent nerves of steel in clutch time.

So, we've accepted the challenge of identifying the very best of those noteworthy games, selecting and ranking what we believe were the top 10 games of season 2022.

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6. Adelaide Crows vs. Port Adelaide -- Adelaide Oval, Round 3

Jordan Dawson, Adelaide's big-ticket recruit of last year's off-season, elevated this game to all-time status after he slotted a difficult set shot after the siren to down the Power in the first Showdown of the season (the second one wasn't as memorable).

Aside from a brief first-quarter lead, Port Adelaide largely owned this contest, keeping Adelaide at arm's length the entire way through until, literally, the final siren, at which point Dawson buried his new cross-town rival with a right-to-left heartbreaker.

In addition to his scintillating game-winner, Dawson also notched up 25 disposals at 72 per cent efficiency, as well as seven contested possessions and another goal earlier on.

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