Angry Sydney coach Paul Roos says the media's 'fixation' with Barry Hall has resulted in the fiery Swans star being unfairly singled out for trivial incidents.

Hall was not charged by the AFL tribunal for the third time this year after hitting Western Bulldogs defender Lindsay Gilbee with a swinging arm in Sunday's 16-point loss, but Roos has come out firing in his defence.

The Swans boss labelled the focus on Hall 'offensive', 'farcical' and 'laughable'.

"When 'Hally' does things wrong we generally normally cop it sweet," Roos said on Monday.

"At the moment there's a Barry Hall fixation by the people in the media which is becoming a little bit unpleasant."

"It's getting a little bit tedious, a little bit boring, a little bit offensive in some ways."

"Everything that Hally's involved in tends to come under scrutiny."

"The media really focus on certain players and certain incidents and don't focus on other players."

"There are a lot of players getting away with a lot worse things than what Barry Hall did on the weekend."

Roos claimed the incident involving Gilbee was so unremarkable he had to go back through the match tape to find it.

His opinion didn't change after viewing the coverage.

"Incidents like you saw with 'Hally' on the weekend probably happen 10 times a game," Roos pointed out.

"It was a head high tackle, incidental contact, and Gilbee obviously felt a knock to the head."

"It was a reasonably simple incident. It was an innocuous thing."

"When you look at it you laugh. It's laughable. It's becoming a little bit farcical."

"We just expect Hally to be treated like every other player."

The Swans are clinging onto fourth spot after dropping four of their last five matches.

But Roos insists he is not interested in limping into the finals.

"You've got to win games of footy. You don't want to finish fourth out of some sort of miracle of the draw or other teams not being able to win," he said.

"We've certainly got a bit of work to do to (stay) in the top four."

"We're a pretty competitive side with some young players in it that's able to push the top teams to a certain degree and do well against the other sides."

"That's probably where we're at a bit at the moment."

"Can we get any better than that? Time will tell."