More boosts for Swans

SYDNEY’S match committee faces some pleasant selection posers in coming weeks with fringe players stepping up and big man Kurt Tippett finally showing form.

The Swans’ 42-point home win over St Kilda at the SCG on Saturday was their 10th victory from their past 11 games.

Their 0-6 start seems like an eternity ago and their early-season injury crisis a thing of the past. Virtually all of the key players still at the club who were part of their 2016 Grand Final side are fit and performing well.

That includes veterans and former cocaptains Jarrad McVeigh and Kieren Jack, who both battled with injury problems early in the season.

Key forward Sam Reid could be back for Friday’s MCG clash with Hawthorn, while fellow forward-ruckman Tippett has put his hand up after a difficult couple of months with injury and form issues. Tippett logged five goals, nine marks and 21 touches in the reserves on Saturday.

“He moved well, he marked the ball really cleanly and he looked a real threat in the air whenever the ball was forward and finished off the game pretty strongly,” coach John Longmire said of Tippett.