SYDNEY Swans coach Paul Roos is happy with the side’s performance to date and is looking forward to the break.

The Swans, sitting fourth on the ladder, with eight and a half wins from the first 13 rounds, enter their weekend bye in great form having won their last six games in a row.

“If you looked at the draw at the beginning of the season and saw Port at AAMI Stadium, Brisbane at the Gabba, West Coast at Subiaco, that would have been the tough part of the draw.

“But no one knows going into a season what teams are going to do well. When we looked at the first half of the draw we thought if we could do reasonably well against those three teams that would be a good start. (The Swans won all three matches).

“Our first half of the season has been tough and what it tells you is that the AFL season is 22 rounds of tough footy.

“Every game is a difficult game to win regardless of where teams are on the ladder.”

Roos doesn’t believe the break is coming at a bad time.

“I don’t think the break is a momentum killer,” he said. “I think it is certainly better to go into a break in winning form rather than losing form but from our point of view we need a week off.”

He said the players were in much need of a rest.

“All the guys are ready for it,” Roos said. “You could see that they were tired on the weekend. They need to freshen up and hopefully most will go away this week and be right for the match against Collingwood on Saturday week.”

The Swans didn’t suffer any injuries on the weekend though Nic Fosdike did injure his hamstring playing in the reserves.

“This week the players will be focusing on getting away and enjoying themselves and next week we will focus on the Magpies.”

As for player destinations, Roos said Port Douglas, Blue Mountains and the Hunter Valley were on the player’s agenda this week.

And as for what the coach will be doing this week?