Don't miss any of the news involving the Swans as we bring you everything from the newspapers around the country on Monday 17th August, 2015.

LIVEWIRE forward Gary Rohan is predicting the biggest Sydney derby ever when Sydney take on GWS at Spotless Stadium on Saturday.

Both teams are desperate for victory, with the Giants needing to win their last three games to stay in the hunt for their first finals appearance and the Swans needing to do likewise for a top four finish.

Rohan declared Sydney is still a Swans town.

“We want Sydney to be ours, we were here first,” Rohan told The Daily Telegraph.

LUKE Parker will be impossible to replace after his season ending broken ankle but the emergence of Tom Mitchell couldn’t have come at a better time for the Swans.

Mitchell was best on the ground in Friday night’s gutsy win against Collingwood picking up a massive 41 disposals.

After struggling to win a regular spot in the team in his first two years in Sydney the 21 year old has now played 15 games in a row and become something of a barometer for the red and whites.

The win against the Magpies has kept the Swans top four hopes alive but they will need to win all of the last three matches to do so beginning with Saturday’s local derby against the Giants who are also desperate for a win to keep their hopes of a maiden finals appearance alive.

Sydney coach John Longmire praised his side's gutsy win over Collingwood on Friday night, but a glut of injuries, most notably Luke Parker's broken leg, has left him searching for troops.

Parker, who has averaged 25 touches a game this season, was injured in a tackle with Collingwood's Taylor Adams in the final term and was taken from the field on a stretcher.

"He's got a fractured fibula, which is the smaller bone in the lower leg," Longmire told ABC radio on Saturday.

"So he's having another scan today [Saturday] just to check out his ankle ligament damage, things like syndesmosis and what not.

"We're not quite sure what that result will come [back as] until later on today. Initial diagnosis is a fractured fibula so that's probably, if [Parker] has an operation, a four-week best-case scenario if there's no other damage, but we don't know if he's done any other damage."

They say you learn the most about your character under extreme adversity. Sydney's moment of truth came early in the last quarter and what they produced in the following half hour showed they will not give up this year's flag without an almighty fight.

Sydney are back in the top four and Collingwood's season is shot after the Swans showed all their trademark heart and courage to produce one of the most stirring victories of the year.

The Swans' 11-point win, however, has come at a huge cost after reigning best and fairest winner Luke Parker was carried off on a stretcher with what appears to be a serious leg injury.

Sydney chairman Andrew Pridham has accused the AFL of lying over the circumstances which led to the imposition of the controversial trade ban on the club, and urged the league to immediately lift the "senseless sanction".

In an explosive pre-game address prior to Friday night's match against Collingwood, Pridham labelled the trade restrictions placed on the Swans as "unconstitutional", a "serious restraint of trade" and having "serious consequences" for the integrity of the competition.

Pridham angrily disputed the AFL's continued claims that the Swans had received prior warning of the ban, describing such assertions as "simply untrue".

He said the explanation that the trade ban was linked to the phasing out of the cost of living allowance was false, saying he had been told by several AFL commissioners it was in response to the signing of Kurt Tippett and Lance Franklin in consecutive trade periods.

Sydney's stirring victory over Collingwood has come at an enormous cost with reigning club champion Luke Parker suffering a season-ending injury.

Parker has suffered a suspected broken right ankle but he was not the only Swan to come to grief on a dramatic night at the SCG.

Having already lost defender Jeremy Laidler, who was subbed out at half time with a hamstring injury, the Swans were down two men for much of the last quarter. And they also had Isaac Heeney and Gary Rohan sore after injury scares.

Heeney landed heavily moments before Parker's accident while Rohan jarred his knee in the first term but played out the game.

Laidler is unlikely to be available for the Sydney derby next week.

SYDNEY chairman Andrew Pridham has slammed the trade restrictions imposed on the Swans as unjustified and demanded they be immediately overturned.

The Swans are barred from recruiting players or free agents in this year’s trade period if they offer more than the average wage - $340,000 - with the AFL warning them they could not evade the controversial restrictions using contract loopholes or back-ended deals.

Sydney had fiercely lobbied for that concession after the league last October banned it from all trading as it phased out the club’s cost of living allowance.

The allowance, which gave the Swans and Greater Western Sydney an extra $1 million in their salary cap, will be gone by 2017.

But in his pre-match address, Pridham made the extraordinary claim the trade ban was payback for signing Kurt Tippett and Lance Franklin because the AFL “did not want to be embarrassed by the Swans”.

THEY have struggled for the best part of two months but there is still life in the Swans after a courageous 11-point win over Collingwood at the SCG.

The gutsy come from behind win was in front of the biggest crowd for the year (38,408) and keeps their top four chances alive with three games to go and puts an end to the Magpies finals hopes. Nathan Buckley’s men have now lost seven of their last eight matches with their only win coming against Carlton last week.

But Sydney’s win came at a high price with star midfielder Luke Parker suffering what looks to be a season-ending injury.

Parker became tangled up with Magpie Taylor Adams in a last quarter tackle in the middle of the ground which trapped his right leg underneath him and bent in a way it shouldn’t.

SYDNEY assistant Stuart Dew has informed the club he will not pursue a vacant coaching role at Carlton, while he has not been contacted by Adelaide.

The 35-year-old is one of three favourites for the Blues job — alongside Brendon Bolton and John Barker — and has been widely linked to the Crows position.

However, speaking to Fox Footy on Friday night, Dew provided the strongest indication yet that he will honour his contract at the Swans.

“I had an initial chat with Carlton, but I haven’t pursued that any further. I informed the club of that this week,” he said.

“In terms of the Adelaide job, I haven’t heard anything.”