AN injury curse is still affecting Swan Districts this season but they deserve to be full of confidence taking on Perth on Saturday afternoon.

There was a lot to be encouraged about in their narrow 13-point victory against WAFL league-leaders South Fremantle.

The Demons sit in fourth position on the men’s ladder with an 8-5 record but they are coming off their own 80-point defeat at the hands of East Perth.

The two teams last played one another back in round 10 at with Perth ending up beating Swans 11.10 (76) to 9.7 (61).

Swan Districts’ 77-game defender and former captain Brandon Erceg is looking to help ensure Swans take as much out of the last month of the season as they can.

“There’s still such a big focus on the way that we want to play and trying to build on the way we want to play so that’s the focus,” Erceg told 91.3 SportFM.

“The other thing as well is just winning as many games of football as we can. Irrespective of what’s happening in the season and whether or not we can make finals, you don’t really like running out on a Saturday and then the game finishes with you not having won.

“I think we’ve been building a little bit in the little three or four weeks with how we’ve been playing, and even on the weekend against South Fremantle we did a lot right but didn’t quite knock them off.

“We put ourselves in a position where we quite easily could have won the game but it’s just the competitive nature of the playing group and wanting to win, and we’ve got some guys who are developing too as league players so it gives them a really good chance to keep building on their games leading into next season.”

Coming off that strong showing last Saturday against South Fremantle, Connor Blakely, Jacob Coniglio, Brodyn Fitzgerald, Brenton Hilton, Luke Kelly, Chase Loftus and Troy Yukich have been added to the squad.

Going out for Swans are Will Collins, Josh Cipro and Caleb Ernst.

Perth are trying to bounce back from an 80-point loss to East Perth with Tarkyn Brogan-Henry, Jack Evans, Tristan Jacques and Jed Kemp coming into the squad with no outs at this stage.