.Geelong's concentrate on a solid finals campaign, certainly not beating Slot Adelaide in any way expenses, paid handsomely after the Cats romped into a preliminary final without key players Tom Stewart and Sam De Koning.Geelong's premiership tilt was actually strengthened considerably on Thursday evening after Chris Scott went for a traditional approach with the celebrity duo as well as his side still roared to an 84-point win over the frustrating Power.Stewart (hamstring/illness) and De Koning (leg) will certainly today have priceless additional opportunity to get ready for the nine preparatory final of Scott's adorned 14-season tenure.Watch the greatest coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, along with specialist analysis and also every activity until the Grand Final deal with no ad-breaks during the course of play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your free of charge trial today > Finals Full week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU MAY BE PURCHASING AS AN ALTERNATIVE. Free of charge and confidential help telephone call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or even go to gamblinghelponline.org.au.Jezza opens finals set with STUNNER!|00:35 PET CATS PLAYER RATINGS:' Off the graphes' young weapon fills overlooking star gap as bargain pick-ups brilliant' SOME OF THE GREATEST': Superstar Kitty STUNS Portress along with freak show ... yet it won't win goal of the yearSpeaking post-game at the Adelaide Oval, Scott rightly backed in play the lengthy activity with 2 of his essential guardians. "If our company took a danger with those people and also it backfired it would not have been impossible, however the level of challenge would possess risen," Scott revealed." The planning was actually to become conservative with those individuals and perhaps still succeed the activity, so our team are actually feeling great concerning that selection right now, however our company're not getting ahead of ourselves.Geelong have registered their 2 most significant victories of the 2024 time in back-t0-back games, fresh off their 93-point get West Coastline that completed their home-and-away time on a high.But as Scott has actually found original previously this period against the likes of Carlton and Gold Coast, it does not take a lot to be on the wrong end of a walloping like what they handed Slot Adelaide on Thursday evening. "Our company've persevered the year along with the swings through the period ... you are actually a bit of an off night from being badly beaten," Scott proceeded." Our experts always keep seeing that to ensure will definitely maintain our feets on the ground." They are actually excellent instances of when you play well you go, 'Oh, excellent decision' and if we 'd possess participated in badly it would have had to do with, 'What would've happened if our company will had Stewart and also De Koning?'" Yet our emphasis gets on having an excellent month, certainly not acquiring acute and also making an effort to bluff our means in to a prelim ... you can't perform that in finals." Scott accepted he was actually still dealing with the choice to play Stewart or not after he grabbed a hamstring grievance in his last getaway before sickness hinted the ranges." He had a good number of weeks of training as well as our experts were truly confident that he would be right," the coach pointed out." He remained in total training for a treatment on Monday, we assumed he was mosting likely to be right, but ... our experts were actually still analyzing that up." Then he started ahead down with a little bit of a flu, after that due to the time he got out of bed he was actually criminal enough that he would not play, so it just sort of made the decision for him as well as our team a small amount much easier." Yet, palm on soul, our experts were leaning towards certainly not playing him and our experts 'd produced the conservative telephone call with De Koning too." Stewart was actually racing against the clock to use Thursday night before catching an ailment (Photo by Michael Willson/AFL Photos using Getty Images) Resource: Getty ImagesThe relocate to certainly not participate in Stewart likewise would possess thrown components of Slot Adelaide's plan out the home window too, having successfully sent stress forward Jed McEntee to Stewart in their last 3 meetings along with difficult success.Beyond the defensive duo nonetheless, Tom Hawkins (foot) and also Cam Guthrie (Achilles) will certainly play in the VFL on Sunday morning as they seek to push their insurance claims after lengthy discharges." Our planning during was actually for them to play today so our team'll push on keeping that," Scott included." Our company'll remain confident, keep broad-minded, always keep all the choices on the dining table, and make good decisions in the moment." I'll stand up to the urge to anticipate too much I could sit right here as well as hypothesize, as well as it would not help anybody." Even with the absence of Hawkins up forward versus the Electrical power, the Kitties' foremost line shone as vivid as any this period - as well as having actually booted 18 behinds for the night, could possibly have amazingly been ever better.Superstars Jeremy Cameron as well as Tyson Stengle finished the night along with four targets apiece, while Gryan Miers as well as Shaun Mannagh each booted 3 majors. Tom Stewart ruled out of Cats v Slot|02:08 Hawkins' replacement Shannon Neale kicked 2.2 coming from his nine fingertips and also nine marks, bring in the approaching selection call on who to pick in pair of weeks time (pending Hawkins' fitness) even more intriguing by the week.Asked if he would love to view an initial last played in Geelong, not the MCG where it will surely be actually planned, Scott answered with a naughty shimmer in his eye." I believe my position has actually always been actually that you need to play your home video games any place you prefer," he admitted." But the AFL run the finals collection and they've got to work out whether that is actually the correct factor or otherwise, and they are actually balancing a whole lot of things that I do not think about that a lot." They have actually received the really good of the video game front end of mind plus all I appreciate is actually the Cats so it is actually logical that our experts will disagree when our company have those various standpoints." But a prelim final (in Geelong)? Why not? It's a fair arena." What I will definitely point out is actually prelim finals are going to be actually played at some aspect at the Gold Coast, or at Giants Coliseum, or even Hobart.".