.Geelong's concentrate on a sturdy finals campaign, certainly not trumping Port Adelaide whatsoever expenses, paid off handsomely after the Cats pranced into a preparatory final without key players Tom Stewart and Sam De Koning.Geelong's premiership tilt was built up substantially on Thursday night after Chris Scott opted for a traditional approach with the superstar duo and his side still roared to an 84-point sway the frustrating Power.Stewart (hamstring/illness) and also De Koning (knee) will certainly now have precious additional time to organize the 9th preliminary last of Scott's embellished 14-season tenure.Watch the greatest insurance coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, with pro review and every game until the Grand Final deal with no ad-breaks during play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your free of charge test today > Finals Full week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU COULD BE GETTING INSTEAD. For Free as well as discreet help call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or even check out gamblinghelponline.org.au.Jezza opens up finals set along with STUNNER!|00:35 KITTIES GAMER RANKINGS:' Off the graphes' young gun packs missing celebrity gap as good deal pick-ups great' SOME OF THE GREATEST': Superstar Pussy-cat STUNS Portress with fan act ... yet it won't succeed objective of the yearSpeaking post-game at the Adelaide Oval, Scott appropriately backed in play the long game along with 2 of his crucial defenders. "If our experts took a risk along with those men as well as it backfired it definitely would not have been impossible, yet the level of problem will've skyrocketed," Scott detailed." The planning was actually to become conservative with those guys as well as perhaps still gain the activity, so our experts're thinking really good about that decision currently, however our company are actually not prospering of ourselves.Geelong have enrolled their pair of biggest triumphes of the 2024 time in back-t0-back games, fresh off their 93-point sway West Coastline that completed their home-and-away period on a high.But as Scott has viewed in person earlier this period against the likes of Carlton and Gold Shore, it doesn't take much to become on the inappropriate end of a walloping like what they handed Port Adelaide on Thursday night. "Our experts've seen it through the year with the swings with the season ... you're a little bit of an off night coming from being actually severely defeated," Scott continued." Our team always keep seeing that in order that will definitely maintain our feets on the ground." They're excellent examples of when you play effectively you go, 'Oh, fantastic choice' and if our company 'd possess played badly it would certainly possess concerned, 'What will possess occurred if our company 'd possessed Stewart and De Koning?'" Yet our emphasis gets on having a really good month, certainly not getting acute and also attempting to bluff our means into a prelim ... you can not carry out that in finals." Scott admitted he was actually still having problem with the choice to participate in Stewart or not after he got a hamstring criticism in his final day trip prior to illness hinted the scales." He possessed a really good couple of weeks of training as well as we were actually confident that he would certainly be right," the trainer stated." He remained in total instruction for a treatment on Monday, our company presumed he was actually heading to be right, but ... our team were still analyzing that up." At that point he started to find cognizant a little bit of an influenza, at that point due to the opportunity he awakened he was scoundrel enough that he would not play, so it merely type of decided for him and our team a small amount easier." Yet, palm on heart, our company were actually leaning towards not playing him and our experts would certainly created the conservative telephone call with De Koning at the same time." Stewart was actually already racing against the clock to use Thursday night just before falling victim to a disease (Photograph by Michael Willson/AFL Photos by means of Getty Images) Source: Getty ImagesThe relocate to certainly not participate in Stewart also would certainly have thrown aspects of Slot Adelaide's plan out the window as well, having successfully delivered stress forward Jed McEntee to Stewart in their last three conferences along with difficult success.Beyond the protective duo nevertheless, Tom Hawkins (feet) and also Webcam Guthrie (Achilles) will play in the VFL on Saturday early morning as they seek to drive their claims after lengthy discharges." Our strategy the whole time was actually for all of them to play today so our experts'll push on with that said," Scott included." Our experts'll keep optimistic, keep unbiased, maintain all the options on the table, as well as make great decisions in the moment." I'll stand up to the appeal to forecast excessive I can rest below and also speculate, and it definitely would not assist any individual." In spite of the lack of Hawkins up forward against the Energy, the Pet cats' foremost line shone as brilliant as any sort of this period - as well as having kicked 18 behinds for the night, could possibly possess incredibly been actually ever better.Superstars Jeremy Cameron as well as Tyson Stengle ended up the night with 4 goals each, while Gryan Miers and also Shaun Mannagh each kicked 3 majors. Tom Stewart ruled out of Cats v Slot|02:08 Hawkins' replacement Shannon Neale booted 2.2 from his nine disposals and also 9 marks, making the coming close to option call on that to decide on in two weeks opportunity (hanging Hawkins' health and fitness) even more appealing due to the week.Asked if he wish to observe a preliminary final played in Geelong, certainly not the MCG where it are going to absolutely be scheduled, Scott responded with an insidious shimmer in his eye." I presume my posture has regularly been that you must play your home video games everywhere you desire," he admitted." Yet the AFL manage the finals series and they've reached exercise whether that's the correct trait or not, as well as they're balancing a great deal of traits that I don't consider that a lot." They have actually acquired the really good of the activity front end of mind and all I care about is actually the Pussy-cats so it is actually sensible that our experts will differ when our company have those different perspectives." But a prelim last (in Geelong)? Why not? It's a fair arena." What I am going to state is prelim finals will definitely be actually played at some point at the Gold Shoreline, or even at Giants Stadium, or even Hobart.".