SATURDAY night's crushing 77-point win against Adelaide is the blueprint by which the Sydney Swans will mount their premiership defence, says coach John Longmire.

The club has a bye next weekend after its impressive victory, which was the exclamation mark on a month in which the reigning premiers drew with title-contenders Fremantle and beat Collingwood and Essendon.

On Saturday night the Swans applied endless pressure on Adelaide's ball carriers and panicked them into making countless errors.

Last year's preliminary finalist had no answer and was embarrassed by a classy Harbour City outfit.

Longmire wants the same sort of football from his players after the break and leading into the finals.

"We've got a long way ahead of us in the second half, there's a lot of footy to be played and we've got to make sure we carry that type of pressure football we played tonight into the second half of the year," Longmire said.

"We've been playing some pretty reasonable footy over the last month against some really good teams.

"Tonight was a really good effort ... the really pleasing part was the pressure that we applied and to keep a quality team to six goals and still kick 19 ourselves was a really good balance."

Saturday's performance was made all the more impressive considering the Swans' absentee list.

As well as Lewis Roberts-Thomson, Sam Reid and Lewis Jetta, the club will finally be allowed to inject power forward Kurt Tippett into its line-up after the bye.

But Longmire cautioned against believing the returning talent would "automatically" make the Swans a better team.

"The form's been good and that's been the pleasing thing because we've probably had a number of players with some injuries that have been out of the team over the last month," he said.

"The last couple of weeks we've lost Reid and Jetta ... we're pretty sure that after the bye those two come back and then obviously Tippett can come back into the team.

"[Just because] you introduce players to the team doesn't automatically mean you'll keep playing well and we've just got to make sure we do what's got us to this point."

With Tippett's AFL-enforced suspension now over, Longmire said he would strongly consider bringing the star back to Adelaide to face Port Adelaide after the bye. 

The 26-year-old has been training all season, but with no match practice under his belt Longmire said he wouldn't expect much of his star recruit early.

"He's been training for a long time now, he's been doing a lot of competitive work, he'll certainly be a real chance for the next time we come back here," he said.

"It's tough to [perform straight away] no matter who you are.

"We saw Adam Goodes do that last year, Adam came back in and found it difficult for a few weeks, that's what happens.

"We don't expect him to come back in and set the world on fire because it's maybe a little bit unrealistic to do that first up.

"It takes a number of weeks before you get match conditioned and you get your touch."

Harry Thring is a reporter for AFL Media. Follow him on Twitter: @AFL_Harry.