The win was Hawthorn’s third for the season and Sewell said the team would only get better.
“There are things we’ve been working on, not just in the lead-up to the last couple of weeks but we’re starting to see the results of the work we’ve put in over the past couple of months,” Sewell said on Monday morning.
“Things are slowly starting to turn our way and we were probably a little lucky to get over the line last week. As we keep improving aspects we are going to get better.”
Sewell said the most noticeable difference between Sunday’s game and Hawthorn’s patchy early season form was a renewed aggression.
“One of the most important things we saw coming out of the weekend was the attitude and guys hitting hard and initiating contact,” he said.
“You guys (the media) like to use the unsociable football term so much and it is something that maybe we’ve been lacking over the past few weeks and it was certainly something we brought back yesterday.”
Much of the weekend was dominated by discussion around Hawthorn’s captaincy but Sewell said it didn’t matter if Luke Hodge or Sam Mitchell held the title as both were integral to the team.
"We've got two exceptional leaders at this club and we're very fortunate to have that. They both complement each other very well,” Sewell said.
“It is just a term, a label - the 'c' next to the name. It’s not going to change anybody’s actions or the way they behave at all. I think it’s null and void.”
The Hawks will wear a special one-off guernsey against the Swans this week as part of a fundraising effort for the Kokoda Track Foundation, which looks to support those now living in the Kokoda area.
“Every second year we send a group over there [Kokoda] and I guess in some small way try to get a sense of what the diggers went through back in the day,” Sewell said.
“It’s something you can’t explain too well purely because it is so far removed from what we know and what we do here.
"For it to have happened on our door step and the group of young men who were over there and changed the course of the nation it is frightening that it got so close.”
