On the back of the Sydney Swans’ highest score in over six years, Sam Reid said it was the multiple avenues to goal which had increased the Swans scoring ability this season.

The Swans boasted 14 goalkickers in last weekend’s 82-point win over the Western Bulldogs, including three goals hauls from Adam Goodes, Lewis Roberts-Thomson, Shane Mumford and Mike Pyke.

Speaking ahead of the club’s first training session this week, Reid - who kicked two goals of his own against the Bulldogs - said when the Swans forward line is firing, it can be very difficult to stop.

“The beauty of having multiple avenues to goal and with the amount of talls we had down there like Mike Pyke, Lewis Roberts-Thomson, myself and Goodsey, not many defensive units can match up to four talls,” he said.

“We have multiple avenues to goal and we’ve got a lot of outside run with Kieren Jack and Lewis Jetta, and we’ve got key marking targets up forward as well, so we don’t just have one option.

“I think the more avenues we have the better.”

Reid also praised his team mates’ run out of defence which he said had contributed to the team’s increased attack this season.

“I think we’ve been moving the ball really well, especially out of the backline with run from guys like Rhyce Shaw and Nick Malceski, and then we’ve also got the outside run of Jack and Jetta,” he said.

“That’s all been really helpful to the big guys as well when it’s coming down quick as it gives us a better chance to beat our defenders.”

The young forward, who is in his third season with the club, said co-captain Adam Goodes is a particularly influential presence in the Swans forward line and often relieved the pressure felt by the other forwards.

“I’ve got my own role in the team which is obviously to provide a contest, which I try to do,” Reid said.

“(Goodes) definitely helps because he is another option to goal and is such a dangerous player that opposition teams do have to pay a lot of attention to him.

“When he does come forward he takes a good defender with him and I suppose at times that can take a bit of pressure off myself and the other key forwards down there.”

Last week’s game marked Reid’s return from two weeks on the sidelines with a knee injury.

The 20-year-old said he recovered well from his first game back, and was looking forward to playing more minutes in this weekend’s top-of-the-table clash with Hawthorn.

“The knee has pulled up really well and is back to 100 per cent pretty much,” Reid said.

“I got through the weekend unscathed, which is pretty good, and I’m looking forward to training again this week and getting a few more minutes under my belt.”

Reid said the Swans would need to be at their best over the next two weeks, when the team faces Hawthorn and Geelong.

“(This weekend is) a top-of-the-table clash and we see it as a massive game going into finals and it will be a really good test for us, and then Geelong the next week,” he said.

“The next two weeks for us are a big two weeks and are a good take of where we’re at going into finals.”