Sydney proved too strong for a flat Gold Coast outfit in the opening round of the season claiming a 49-point victory at Heritage Bank Stadium.

The Swans could hardly have been more impressive in the 16.14 (110) to 9.7 (61) triumph, kicking the game's first five goals and completely shutting the Suns out of the match.

They had 12 individual goalkickers and nine players gathered 20 disposals or more in the ultimate team performance.

Sydney won contests all over the ground and John Longmire could not have been happier with the performance, saying mentally and physically the Swans were in great shape.

Despite having 51 more disposals, Sydney also laid 24 more tackles than its opponent to highlight its greater intensity.

He said there had been no talk about last year's 81-point Grand Final loss to Geelong in recent weeks and they were purely focused on 2023.

"We spoke about it before Christmas, but it has been six months, so we get into the next year," Longmire said.

"We wanted to play well tonight. That was last year, six months ago. We wanted to play hard and strong footy and we talked about Gold Coast all week and that's all we focused on."

Longmire said Sam Reid would need to have "a really good week of training" to put his hand up for selection against Hawthorn next week after being unavailable with a glute injury.