WHILE admitting his surprise at reading Sydney-born Nick Davis was a West Coast supporter as a youngster, Swans coach Paul Roos did not seem too perturbed over Davis revealing in the Herald yesterday he would "love to play" in Perth.

The enigmatic forward who spent much of the year in the reserves before a knee injury ended his season last week, said on Thursday: "The best-case scenario would be that I remain here in Sydney, but if not, I have to look elsewhere and, certainly, playing at West Coast would be a great challenge. I'd definitely love to play with them. I barracked for the Eagles as a kid, they're a great club, a very professional club and looking at them as an opponent in recent times, they've probably struggled a little bit in the forward line."

Roos said yesterday he hadn't read the whole article, but said the Swans had not and would not make any decision on Davis until the end of the year.

"I don't know what the question was that was put to him, and as to why you would answer it like that," Roos said of Davis's quotes. "I didn't even know he was a West Coast supporter."

Asked if he had ever seen an AFL player shopped around as much as Davis, Roos replied: "No, not in my time in footy. With [former Cronulla league player] Lance Thompson [Davis's manager] he's a terrific guy and I'm sure he's got Nick's best interests, but rugby league is very different and it may be [a matter] for Lance coming to terms with how AFL footy is. Every week we see NRL players shopping themselves around or players signing with other clubs when they are still playing with their team. That's probably the difference. Nick is an AFL footballer, and it's just a different way of doing things."

Davis said he believed he had "at least four or five good years left" and Roos conceded there would be clubs interested in Davis.

"At this stage of the year, really, I don't think about who's going to be here and not going to be here," he said. "It's a pretty important time of year for us as a footy club. What he wants to do and what his manager wants to do, I can't really control that.

"From a club's point of view, we sit down halfway through a season and look at our list, think who we might want to come in, [who we] might not, but it's really preliminary so it's not until the end of the year that you start to galvanise what might happen."

One player who will be there next year, although it may be his last, is Irishman Tadhg Kennelly.

The 27-year-old who played his first game against Carlton in 2001, will play his 150th tomorrow at Telstra Dome, also against Carlton.

But Kennelly - a Catholic who has spent the week "trying to get near the Pope" - conceded that while he has one more season with the Swans, he still wants to win an All Ireland title in Gaelic football.

"I remember playing my first game and I said I could die tomorrow and I'd be a happy man," he said. "I never thought I'd play 150. It's quite strange when I think about where I came from to be here for so long. I do want to go back and play Gaelic football. I'm signed up to the end of next year and I'll make a decision then what I'm going to do."

Last week against Hawthorn, Kennelly twice dislocated his shoulder, got the doctor to put it back in, and off he went again. He says he has "put up with it all year" and scans on Monday showed he is not doing any more damage by playing on and popping it back in when it comes out.

"It's funny, I have no problem getting tackled or getting hit, it's only when I switch off mentally that the muscle switches off and that's when it comes out," he said.

"Any time I'm tackling or getting tackled I have no problem because I'm switching on the muscle. It's more when I'm being easy around the place that it just pops out because the tissues around it actually switch off."