Sydney Swans defender Tadhg Kennelly says the playing group is trying to stay positive despite yesterday’s second half fadeout against Hawthorn.

Speaking at this morning’s recovery at Clovelly Beach, Kennelly says the six-day turnaround ahead of Saturday’s game against North Melbourne gives the side a good chance to quickly rectify yesterday’s 46-point loss to the Hawks.

“We’re lucky it’s a short week this week," Kennelly said. "We play Saturday afternoon and hopefully we can bounce back as quick as possible.

“Yes we were very, very poor, but it’s something that we can rectify very quickly.”

Kennelly says there will be an increased focus this week on getting back to basics and restoring pride in the Club after Hawthorn kicked 12 goals to four after quarter time to hand the Swans their worst defeat at the SCG since they lost to the Western Bulldogs by 69 points in round 8, 2002.

“I think what we’re going to do is get ourselves right,” he said in reference to playing North Melbourne this Saturday.

“It wouldn’t matter if we were playing Collingwood this week, after what happened yesterday it’s going to be all about us.

“It’s going to be all about getting the Sydney Swans brand back, and the team back, and our culture back.

Kennelly was adamant throughout his press conference that the Swans needed to find the passion and fight that has been the trademark of their game for so long.

“We’ve got to try and get that drive, and passion, and pride back into the jumper and we’ve got a lot of work to do,” Kennelly said.

“We really need to get back to that fight that we had against West Coast and Essendon.

“That fighting spirit is just not there and the passion seems to have left us a bit, and that’s what we need to get back to and get back very quickly.”

Kennelly said that the playing group took full responsibility for yesterday’s loss, and that more needed to be done as a group when the game was slipping away from the Swans at the beginning of the second half.

“As a group we really fell down once they came at us, and I think there’s some time in a game where better teams, and better players in the competition stand up and say ‘enough’s enough’ and we didn’t do it as a group,” he said.

“I don’t think it’s the coach’s fault; this is very much a player’s responsibility for what happened in the second half.”

With the Swans undefeated away from home so far in 2011, the veteran Irishman said that extra emphasis will now be placed on continuing their away form, having starting the season 1-3 at the SCG.