WHO is this team and what have they done with those ugly, tunnelling Swans? After 22 goals and a 68-point thumping of Port Adelaide yesterday, the Swans may now face pressure for making games boringly lopsided.

"We're just all-round boring, I think," Barry Hall joked after booting five goals. "It's worth four points, and any way you get them is good."

It was certainly a massive contrast to the team that booted just six goals in its dour two-point loss to St Kilda last weekend.

"I suppose a week is a long time in footy," Hall said. "We were very disappointed last week and it was pleasing to respond the way we did. Our ball use and all that stuff was 10 times better.

"We got a good mix of the young guys and the older blokes. Looking at the scoreboard at three-quarter-time, we were up by 10 goals and I didn't even realise. We were sharing the workload and it wasn't just one bloke kicking the goals, and I suppose it shows we are all about the process. Everyone was on the job and pretty focused, and if we can share the workload every week it's going to be a lot harder to defend against us.

"We don't worry about what they say about us. When you look at pre-season talk, we're up against it every year. When we won the grand final they said they can't back it up, they got an easy run, that sort of stuff. Nothing changes from our point of view. We've got some quality players and if they play well it's a bonus, but it's all about the young guys coming through and sharing the workload as well."

There were impressive signs all over the ground for four quarters for the Swans, who now improve to 1-1, the same record they have had in round two in four of the previous five seasons Paul Roos has coached them.

As for Port, whose coach Mark Williams admitted he "didn't see that coming", they will be hoping yesterday was just a hiccup, as they slump to their first 0-2 start since 2003. On the positive side, that year they won 18 of the next 20.

Roos said that while he was happy with the return to form of several of his older players he was delighted with the performance in particular of youngsters Jarred Moore, Craig Bird, Ed Barlow, Heath Grundy and Kieren Jack.

"We've got a lot of faith in those (older) guys but it's probably the younger guys that have made it a bit more impressive today because you've got five young kids in and playing against a team that played in the grand final. I thought the mix was terrific," he said.

"I can't predict how many goals we're going to kick but I think just generally we played a lot better. There were some good signs last week and I think St Kilda had come into the season in really good form, so we weren't too disappointed after last week. We felt like we were playing a really good team.

"It was a tough game, a hard game, a physical game which St Kilda also like to play, but today was really good. We kept up that intensity and we were able to use the ball a lot better today which was probably the difference between last week and this week."

The signs were ominous early for Sydney as Port kicked three of the first four goals of the game, but by early in the second term the Swans had ramped up their defensive pressure and Port was struggling to cope.

SYDNEY 6.2 10.5 17.10 22.14 (146) PORT ADELAIDE 4.1 6.7 7.8 11.12 (78)

GOALS Sydney: Hall 5, O'Loughlin 4, Bevan 2, Kirk 2, McVeigh 2, Barlow, Barry, J Bolton, Goodes, Grundy, Jack, Roberts-Thomson. Port Adelaide: S Burgoyne 4, Motlop 2, Tredrea 2, K Cornes, Pettigrew, Rodan.

BEST Sydney: J Bolton, McVeigh, Ablett, Jolly, Mattner, O'Keefe, Hall. Port Adelaide: S Burgoyne, K Cornes, Pearce, Lade.

UMPIRES: Rosebury, Stevic, McLaren.

CROWD: 24,761 at SCG.

THE UPSHOT After an "ugly" round-one loss, the Swans are attractive, and winning emphatically. Port loses its opening two games for the first time since 2003. It did go on to finish top of the ladder that season.

THE TALKING POINTS A distant lack of tunnelling. While no injuries, a number of players noted how hard the ground was, and is Port in trouble already?

HOT AND COLD Sydney ageing forwards Barry Hall and Michael O'Loughlin. Age is not wearying them as they booted nine goals between them. Not too many players were hot, including Chad Cornes who just had no impact at all on the game.