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Sydney coach Dean Cox concedes he can’t look further than next week after the Swans were dealt a massive blow in their unlikely bid to gatecrash the AFL finals.

After a horror start to the year, Sydney had looked to have revived their season this month with consecutive wins and the return of guns Errol Gulden, Callum Mills and Tom Papley.

But the resurrection was brought to a halt in a 16.9 (105) to 14.12 (96) defeat to the Western Bulldogs at the SCG on Friday night.

It left last year’s beaten grand finalists nursing a 6-9 record ahead of another difficult home assignment against top-eight side Fremantle in round 17.

“I can’t look too far ahead at the moment,” first-year coach Cox said.

“We’ve got Fremantle, who are another team like the Bulldogs.

“They’ve won five in a row … they’re playing some really good footy.

“So we’ll make sure that we get as much as we can out of learning from this game and then our attention will go straight onto Fremantle to try to quell their influence and get the result we’re after.”

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