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SYDNEY coach John Longmire says the Swans are on track to give Hawthorn a run for their money in this Friday's blockbuster at ANZ Stadium after thrashing Brisbane by 79 points tonight.
Longmire said both Lance Franklin and Kurt Tippett were a chance of taking on the Hawks after missing the convincing disposal of the Lions at the Gabba.
If they get through training this week, they will join a side that is starting to hum with three straight wins after a sluggish start to their 2014 campaign.
Tippett trained strongly today while Franklin's availability is less certain after his knee injury failed to come up for this weekend.
"We've certainly started to play a bit better over four quarters a bit more consistently and that's been the pleasing thing over the past three weeks,'' he said.
Brisbane Lions v Sydney Swans at the Gabba. Shaw gets chaired off after playing his 200th. pic Mark Calleja Source: News Corp Australia
"Not sure yet (about Franklin). He wasn't able to do anything at all on Thursday so we'll see how he goes next week. Hopefully he will be.
"Tippett trained today and did the whole session and pulled up really well. We are hoping those two guys come into contention for next week.''
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Longmire said the Lions were competitive early but was happy with how his side got on top and kept their foot on the throat of the last-placed Brisbane.
"I just thought that we kept running and kept working,'' he said.
"Whether it was our tackles or our contested ball work, we kept persisting through the course of the game. The longer we were doing that, we were able to have 33 shots on goals and kept the opposition to six goals.''
He was happy with Adam Goodes' first full game back from a knee injury.
"He looked really good. He was on fire the first couple of minutes. We'd actually forgotten what he was like, moving like that,'' he said.
Jed Adcock tackles Kieren Jack. Picture; Mark Calleja Source: News Corp Australia
Meanwhile, Lions coach Justin Leppitsch was philosophical post-match saying the club was being forced to play young kids before they were ready given the club's injury toll.
"I want Tom Cutler to play his 20-40 reserves games, I want Robbo (Nick Robertson to do it as well, I want Aishy (James Aish) to have the odd stint in there as well to get lots of ball in hand but we can't, we can't do it,'' he said.
"It's a bit unfair on them a little bit. You want them to build their careers.
"To be perfectly honest, they are not our worst players … they've got some things within their game they've got to improve but there's still plenty of players who have been around for four or five years out there that didn't perform at the level they should have.''
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Leppitsch said Jonathan Brown was omitted because he pulled up sore from last week's trip to New Zealand.
"We've got to look after our 30-pluses as much we look after our 18-year-olds,'' he said.
"A few weeks ago we put him out when we shouldn't have and it wasn't helpful for him or the team so we just have to keep making the right calls on that.''
He said conceding multiple goals in time-on was killing Brisbane.
"Players get fatigued and tired. Anything that results in a contest with lots of bodies and the later it goes in quarters, you combine those two things together that's when younger teams tend to struggle,'' he said.
"We can't stop the clock. I'd love to call a time-out … we just have to show a bit of leadership and get better and tough it out.''
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