It's a game of two halves for waning Swans, waxing Carlton After a long layoff with injury, the Swans are still not sure if Adam Goodes will return to the side to face Carlton. THE Swans and Carlton go into Saturday's final on opposite sides of the same coin. The Sydney outfit faded badly in the second half in their loss to Hawthorn while the mob from Melbourne did the opposite in beating Richmond. The Swans struggled for run with a team that had welcomed back a host of players from injury while the Blues found creativity and flair from dual Brownlow medallist Chris Judd, who had snuck back into the team when all had thought his year, like the club's, was done. The biggest decision Sydney has this week is to decide if its dual Brownlow medallist Adam Goodes can come back into the side and do the same. Goodes has missed considerably more football than Judd and if he does enter the picture it will probably be at the expense of Lewis Jetta, who has little football under his belt from the second half of the year. "He (Goodes) sat in my office and says he feels well, whether we play him or not we don't know yet," coach John Longmire said. We'll have to see how he trains for the rest of the week. We know he is a pretty special player and a mentally tough player, whether that comes into the mix we are not sure yet. We have a couple in that boat and we have to get that balance right. He is always confident of his ability to be able to play Goodesy, whether it's with one knee, or an arm tied behind his back he is always willing to get out there and have a go. He will be putting pressure on us I imagine. Judd's efforts were noted by Sydney and Longmire couldn't hide his admiration when asked about the star yesterday. "He was sensational," Longmire said. His third quarter in particular, the way he was able to lift the team. Not only him, there were a few others obviously as well, but he was one that stood out in the centre bounce clearances in particular. It's not as if he does it once or twice, he's got a history of doing it and doing it in big games and that's why he's a superstar. He's so good at the contest and they're the hardest to try to nullify, the ones that go at the ball and are so good at the 50-50 ball. But we think we've got a few of those blokes who are pretty good in that situation as well, whether it's Josh Kennedy or Ryan O'Keefe or Luke Parker. Carlton's group of small running players hurt Richmond late in Sunday's game, but it appeared that Sydney was hurt by the inability of its battery of tall forwards to get their hands on the ball in the air. The transitional run wasn't there for the Swans either, but Longmire was confident it hadn't disappeared. "We've got enormous confidence in our core group of players to be able to play their best football still," Longmire said. And we know we've got some really good players in our team that at their best play really strong two-way transition football. That's what we'll be trying to get back to doing this week for four quarters. We know that Carlton have got some stars. We know they played really well in the second half in particular on the weekend, but we also know that our best is pretty good and that's what we need to deliver on the weekend. The Swans have an eight-day break between games, Carlton six, but if recent performances are anything to go by, Sydney will suck up every second of the extra 48 hours as they have looked leg-weary and battle-sore of late. Sydney has a light week planned on the track and yesterday's training barely got beyond a friendly soccer match. "You need to play your best football and you need to play it for four quarters, that's what stood out over the weekend," Longmire said. Over the last two weeks we played half on the weekend and three quarters the weekend before. Our challenge this week is to do it for four quarters.