As main training winds down at GMHBA Stadium most days, you’ll usually find a group of players launching torpedos from the boundary just in front of the Brownlow Stand, about where the player's race meets the turf.

On any given day it’s alternately a big or small group, but the three players you can usually find swinging the leg are Tom Hawkins, Issac Smith, and Jeremy Cameron.

So for Cats track watchers, it was no surprise when Jeremy Cameron sent one sailing through on the three-quarter-time siren on Saturday afternoon against Port Adelaide from that exact spot, and even less of a surprise that the barrel was his weapon of choice.

Unsurprisingly, the crowd went ballistic as the Sherrin at first swung right before it curled back left, like a perfectly executed leggie. In recent times, only Mitch Duncan's own post-siren missile against West Coast last season rivaled it for pure crowd volume.

Cats coach Chris Scot was in the lift on his way down from the coach's box when Cameron took the pack mark to set up the shot. He may have missed the goal but there was no missing the commotion.

The big forward helpfully filled his coach in as they approached the huddle.

“I did ask him if he’d kicked a torp and he couldn’t believe that I’d missed it,” Scott told K rock Football post-match.

“The stuff he does at training, in all seriousness… that is so far from a fluke that it’s not funny.”

All teammate Brandan Parfitt could say to Fox Footy post-match was “He’s a freak. You’ve just got to get the ball into his hands.”

So, was a drop punt even an option?

Sort of, according to Cameron. But if there was even any doubt, it was the not so gentle encouragement from Gary Rohan that saw the subtle grip switch that sent the crowd into a frenzy.

“There was only a few seconds left on the clock so, I did think about a drop punt early,” Cameron told Fox Footy’s Best on Ground.

“But Gary Rohan was like, ‘yeah, go the torp’, so I let it go.”