.Geelong's pay attention to a sturdy finals campaign, not beating Port Adelaide in all expenses, settled handsomely after the Cats pranced in to a preliminary final without key players Tom Stewart and also Sam De Koning.Geelong's premiership tilt was strengthened significantly on Thursday evening after Chris Scott chose a conventional method along with the celebrity duo as well as his side still rumbled to an 84-point win over the frustrating Power.Stewart (hamstring/illness) as well as De Koning (knee) will presently have priceless extra time to organize the ninth preparatory last of Scott's embellished 14-season tenure.Watch the greatest protection of the 2024 AFL finals, with professional study and also every game up until the Grand Final LIVE with no ad-breaks in the course of play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your complimentary test today > Finals Week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU CAN BE ACQUIRING RATHER. Totally free and also personal help telephone call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or even see gamblinghelponline.org.au.Jezza opens up finals collection with STUNNER!|00:35 PET CATS GAMER RANKINGS:' Off the charts' youthful weapon fills overlooking star gap as bargain pick-ups brilliant' SOME OF THE MOST EFFECTIVE': Celebrity Pet Cat STUNS Portress with fanatic act ... however it won't gain goal of the yearSpeaking post-game at the Adelaide Oval, Scott rightly supported in play the lengthy game along with two of his key protectors. "If our company took a danger with those fellas and it backfired it would not have actually been actually difficult, however the level of problem would certainly possess skyrocketed," Scott clarified." The strategy was actually to be traditional with those guys as well as perhaps still gain the video game, so our team're experiencing excellent about that choice currently, but we're not being successful of ourselves.Geelong have actually enrolled their 2 most significant success of the 2024 period in back-t0-back video games, fresh off their 93-point gain West Coast that finished their home-and-away time on a high.But as Scott has actually seen original earlier this time versus the similarity Carlton and Gold Coast, it doesn't take a lot to be on the inappropriate end of a walloping like what they handed Port Adelaide on Thursday evening. "Our team've persevered the year along with the swings through the period ... you are actually a little bit of an off night coming from being horribly beaten," Scott continued." Our experts keep viewing that to make sure that are going to maintain our feet on the ground." They're excellent examples of when you play properly you go, 'Oh, great decision' and also if our experts would certainly possess participated in badly it would certainly have been about, 'What would certainly've occurred if we would certainly had Stewart and also De Koning?'" But our concentration gets on possessing a great month, not acquiring acute as well as attempting to bluff our method in to a prelim ... you can not do that in finals." Scott admitted he was still fighting with the choice to play Stewart or not after he grabbed a hamstring complaint in his final getaway prior to disease hinted the ranges." He possessed a really good couple of weeks of instruction and also our experts were definitely optimistic that he would certainly be right," the train said." He resided in full instruction for a session on Monday, our company assumed he was actually going to be right, but ... we were actually still analyzing that up." At that point he started ahead cognizant a little bit of a flu, after that due to the time he awakened he was actually crook good enough that he would not participate in, so it only form of decided for him and also us a little less complicated." But, palm on heart, we were actually bending towards certainly not playing him and also we would certainly produced the conventional telephone call along with De Koning as well." Stewart was actually currently racing against the clock to play on Thursday evening just before being stricken with a sickness (Photograph through Michael Willson/AFL Photos using Getty Images) Source: Getty ImagesThe move to not participate in Stewart additionally will possess thrown elements of Port Adelaide's plan the window as well, having successfully sent out tension onward Jed McEntee to Stewart in their final 3 conferences along with overwhelming success.Beyond the protective duo however, Tom Hawkins (foot) as well as Webcam Guthrie (Achilles) will play in the VFL on Saturday early morning as they try to push their insurance claims after long cutbacks." Our planning the whole time was for all of them to play recently so our team'll push on with that said," Scott added." Our experts'll stay hopeful, remain broad-minded, maintain all the possibilities on the dining table, and make great decisions in the second." I'll withstand the lure to anticipate too much I could rest listed here and suppose, as well as it definitely would not aid anyone." In spite of the absence of Hawkins up onward versus the Energy, the Pussy-cats' foremost line shone as bright as any type of this season - and also having actually booted 18 behinds for the night, might possess remarkably been actually ever better.Superstars Jeremy Cameron and Tyson Stengle ended up the night along with four goals apiece, while Gryan Miers and Shaun Mannagh each kicked three majors. Tom Stewart ruled out of Pussy-cats v Port|02:08 Hawkins' replacement Shannon Neale booted 2.2 from his nine fingertips and also nine proofs, making the approaching variety call that to pick in two full weeks opportunity (pending Hawkins' physical fitness) much more interesting by the week.Asked if he wish to find a preparatory last played in Geelong, not the MCG where it are going to definitely be booked, Scott answered with a rascally shimmer in his eye." I believe my placement has regularly been that you ought to play your home games no matter where you want," he confessed." Yet the AFL run the finals set and also they've got to exercise whether that's the best point or otherwise, as well as they are actually balancing a great deal of points that I don't think about that a lot." They've obtained the excellent of the activity front end of thoughts plus all I respect is the Cats so it is actually logical that our experts will disagree when our company have those different viewpoints." Yet a prelim ultimate (in Geelong)? Why certainly not? It's a good coliseum." What I am going to mention is prelim finals are going to be actually played at some point at the Gold Shore, or at Giants Arena, or even Hobart.".