Adam Goodes may not play for Sydney Swans again this year Rehab: Adam Goodes goes through his paces at the SCG. Adam Goodes is hopeful rather than confident of playing in the finals as Sydney brace for the prospect of defending their flag without any further assistance from their inspirational champion. It has emerged that Goodes' injured knee needs to improve dramatically in the next few days if he is to make a finals comeback. The Swans want to see Goodes back on the track doing ball work in order to be considered for the finals but the veteran still cannot run pain-free due to the injury he suffered nine weeks ago against Port Adelaide. "The next few days are pretty important for Adam, whether he gets an opportunity to play this year or not," said Swans coach John Longmire. It's fair to say time's pushing it now and he needs for things to go well pretty quickly from here. We need to make a decision in the next few days whether he is actually able to train - see how he responds in the coming days to an increase in his training load. He hasn't responded well to his point and he understands he needs to get going in the next few days. There had been a feeling the Swans would be prepared to back Goodes' track record but it seems they may not even get to a position where that will come into play. "He needs to get to a stage where he can train with us, which he's not able to do yet," Longmire said. Clearly he's a quality player who is in our best 22 but he's not able to train yet with the team. That point has taken longer than what we'd hoped and what he'd hoped. Asked how confident Goodes was of coming back this year, Longmire said: "He's not confident, he's hopeful. He's wanting to play but his knee's a little bit sore. He knows every step he's taken to this point he hasn't quite got over that hump. He hasn't had too many wins in his rehab, to use his own words this morning. He's hoping for a couple of wins pretty quickly. If he's not doing some increased training next week, some sort of ball work it's going to be very difficult for him beyond that.