SWANS great Bob Skilton has handed in his end-of-season report card, describing Kieren Jack, Jarred Moore and Craig Bird as top quality finds, urging Paul Roos to continue as coach and praising the side for its fighting spirit.

However, the Team of the Century captain also highlighted the side's weaknesses, pinpointing a lack of height, explosiveness and marking power as major drawbacks, as well as a series of injuries to important players and an indifferent season by key forward Barry Hall.

"I'd be a lot happier if Barry had played this season the way Barry wanted to," Skilton, 69, told The Sun-Herald from Melbourne. "Everybody has their down times. But, all in all, I'd rather have Barry on my side than come up against him."

Skilton said Hall's strike on West Coast's Brent Staker early in the season was the low point but he was forgiving.

"Sometimes we don't know what's going in someone's life away from football," he said. "You can only put the Staker incident down to a brain snap. Everybody has a different make up. Sometimes people flip and it's too late once they do that."

Skilton was unable to make it to last night's elimination final at ANZ Stadium but was present to see the Swans get thumped by Collingwood on August 23. "In the last seven or eight weeks we had a couple of shockers," he said. "I was sitting at the Collingwood game recently and one Swans supporter sitting behind me said to his mate, 'You know, if we were at home we could change the channel'." Nevertheless, Skilton said he could find reasons for the Swans' inconsistent form.

"Half-way through the year we were ahead of where we thought we might be," he said. "But then we had our fair share of injuries. We can't complain about that because we had a couple of years when we hardly had any injuries and we won a premiership and nearly won another.