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Sydney Swans midfielder Paul Williams believes his team has all the tools necessary for a successful September campaign.

The Swans are in a semi-final against St Kilda next week after a comfortable 41-point victory over the West Coast Eagles, a result that continued a recent run of good form and yet again highlighted their evenness across the park and ability to win the footy in close.


"We're pretty happy with the way things are going. The brand of footy that we do play is conducive to finals footy," Williams said at the club's swim session at Coogee beach on Sunday.

"It's a contested brand and we do stack up reasonably well in the big games. Everything is looking okay."

"There's no secret to the way we play, we rely heavily on every player that goes out there. We do need the 22 guys contributing and we don't have a Michael Voss, Simon Black in our side, we've got a lot of honest, hard goers."

Despite the mauling the Saints received at the hands of the Brisbane Lions in Friday night's Qualifying Final, Williams doesn't expect that result to have any impact on their opponents' capacity to be at their best next weekend.

"I don't think they'll be any softer by it. I've got no doubt that they are going to be as hard as ever and with a game like that - it happened to us when we played Port this year - you've just got to dismiss those ones and get on the track for next week."

"We're all professional enough to realise that they'll just dismiss that straight away. It'll be just a normal hard, contested final. There'll be no extra venom on either side I wouldn't think."