Sydney show it remains a premiership fancy Dan Hannebery celebrates a goal. SYDNEY reinforced its premiership credentials with a stunning 47-point win over Collingwood. The Swans not only defied the Magpies, but an unusual game day preparation to run out resounding winners at the MCG. A racial slur made by a Collingwood fan towards Swans champion Adam Goodes late in the match soured the victory, as did a quad injury to Sam Reid that could keep him out next week. But the stunning nature of start-to-finish victory served as a timely reminder that the Swans are well and truly in the hunt for back-to-back flags. Collingwood had 54 inside 50s to Sydney's 45, yet the Swans had 25 scoring shots to the Magpies 15. Time and time again last night Sydney had too many numbers, not only around the contest, but in space across the field as it consigned both an MCG hoodoo and Magpies jinx to history. "We needed to make sure we got our structures right, that's an important part of our game," Swans coach John Longmire said. Racial slur sours win It only works when we get our pressure and our intent right and affect the opposition's ball movement and their (forward 50) entries. When we get the both of those going well that's when we play our best footy and I thought that we did that tonight. Sydney players endured a bizarre start to their night when they arrived to the ground 45 minutes late after the team bus broke down. Many players jumped in to taxis while others, sick of Melbourne's peak hour traffic, rode trams. They still made it to the ground with about 90 minutes to spare. It was clearly enough preparation time to set up what was the club's sixth win for the season.