.Geelong's pay attention to a strong finals project, certainly not defeating Port Adelaide in all prices, settled handsomely after the Cats skipped right into a preparatory final without key players Tom Stewart and also Sam De Koning.Geelong's premiership tilt was actually strengthened dramatically on Thursday night after Chris Scott selected a conservative approach with the celebrity duo and also his side still rumbled to an 84-point get the unsatisfying Power.Stewart (hamstring/illness) as well as De Koning (leg) are going to now have valuable extra time to plan for the 9th initial last of Scott's enhanced 14-season tenure.Watch the best protection of the 2024 AFL finals, with expert study and also every activity till the Grand Final cope with no ad-breaks throughout play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your totally free trial today > Finals Week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU MIGHT BE ACQUIRING RATHER. Free of cost and also classified assistance phone call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or go to gamblinghelponline.org.au.Jezza opens finals set with STUNNER!|00:35 FELINES PLAYER RATINGS:' Off the graphes' younger gun loads missing out on star void as bargain pick-ups brilliant' SOME OF THE MOST IDEAL': Super Star Feline STUNS Portress with addict show ... yet it will not win target of the yearSpeaking post-game at the Adelaide Oval, Scott rightly backed in play the long activity with 2 of his essential protectors. "If our company took a risk with those men as well as it backfired it wouldn't have been inconceivable, however the level of difficulty would've skyrocketed," Scott clarified." The strategy was actually to become conventional with those people as well as ideally still succeed the game, so our team are actually believing good about that choice currently, however we are actually not getting ahead of ourselves.Geelong have actually enrolled their pair of biggest triumphes of the 2024 season in back-t0-back video games, new off their 93-point gain West Shoreline that completed their home-and-away period on a high.But as Scott has seen original previously this time versus the likes of Carlton as well as Gold Coastline, it doesn't take much to be on the inappropriate end of a drubbing like what they handed Slot Adelaide on Thursday night. "Our team've persevered the year along with the swings with the season ... you are actually a small amount of an off night coming from being extremely defeated," Scott carried on." Our team keep finding that so that will definitely maintain our feet on the ground." They are actually ideal instances of when you play well you go, 'Oh, terrific choice' and if our experts will have participated in badly it would possess concerned, 'What will possess taken place if we will possessed Stewart as well as De Koning?'" But our focus performs having a good month, certainly not receiving vicious as well as making an effort to bluff our method into a prelim ... you can not perform that in finals." Scott confessed he was actually still fighting with the decision to play Stewart or otherwise after he grabbed a hamstring complaint in his final day trip before health problem tipped the ranges." He possessed a great couple of weeks of instruction as well as our team were actually really confident that he will be right," the instructor said." He was in total instruction for a treatment on Monday, our experts presumed he was heading to be right, however ... we were still considering that up." At that point he started ahead cognizant a little bit of a flu, at that point by the opportunity he got up he was actually crook enough that he definitely would not play, so it simply kind of made the decision for him and also our company a bit simpler." Yet, hand on heart, our experts were leaning in the direction of not playing him as well as we would certainly produced the conservative call with De Koning at the same time." Stewart was currently competing versus the clock to play on Thursday evening before coming down with an ailment (Image by Michael Willson/AFL Photos by means of Getty Images) Source: Getty ImagesThe relocate to certainly not play Stewart also would have thrown components of Port Adelaide's plan out the window as well, having effectively sent out pressure ahead Jed McEntee to Stewart in their last 3 meetings along with frustrating success.Beyond the protective duo nevertheless, Tom Hawkins (foot) and Cam Guthrie (Achilles) are going to play in the VFL on Saturday morning as they try to push their claims after long unemployments." Our plan all along was actually for them to play recently so our team'll push on with that said," Scott added." Our company'll remain positive, keep unbiased, maintain all the options on the table, and make good decisions in the moment." I'll avoid the lure to anticipate a lot of I could possibly sit here and also hypothesize, and also it definitely would not help anyone." Despite the lack of Hawkins up forward against the Electrical power, the Pet cats' forward line shone as bright as any type of this season - as well as having booted 18 behinds for the night, might possess amazingly been actually ever before better.Superstars Jeremy Cameron as well as Tyson Stengle completed the night along with 4 objectives each, while Gryan Miers and Shaun Mannagh each booted 3 majors. Tom Stewart eliminated of Kitties v Port|02:08 Hawkins' replacement Shannon Neale kicked 2.2 coming from his 9 fingertips as well as nine marks, bring in the moving toward selection call who to pick in pair of full weeks time (hanging Hawkins' physical fitness) more fascinating by the week.Asked if he wish to find a preparatory final played in Geelong, certainly not the MCG where it are going to definitely be actually planned, Scott answered with a wicked gleam in his eye." I think my posture has actually regularly been that you need to play your home video games anywhere you really want," he admitted." Yet the AFL run the finals set as well as they've got to work out whether that is actually the ideal thing or not, and also they are actually stabilizing a whole lot of points that I don't think of that a lot." They have actually got the great of the game face of mind and all I respect is the Kitties so it is actually logical that our experts will differ when our experts possess those various perspectives." Yet a prelim last (in Geelong)? Why certainly not? It is actually a good arena." What I will definitely say is actually prelim finals will definitely be actually dipped into some factor at the Gold Coastline, or at Giants Arena, or Hobart.".