.Geelong's concentrate on a tough finals campaign, not beating Port Adelaide in all costs, paid off handsomely after the Cats pranced right into a preliminary last without principals Tom Stewart and Sam De Koning.Geelong's premiership tilt was reinforced significantly on Thursday night after Chris Scott selected a traditional method with the superstar duo and also his edge still rolled to an 84-point win over the disappointing Power.Stewart (hamstring/illness) as well as De Koning (leg) will presently have priceless additional time to plan for the 9th preliminary ultimate of Scott's embellished 14-season tenure.Watch the most ideal insurance coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, along with professional review as well as every activity till the Grand Final LIVE with no ad-breaks during play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your complimentary trial today > Finals Full week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU MIGHT BE BUYING RATHER. Absolutely free as well as classified help phone call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or even explore gamblinghelponline.org.au.Jezza opens up finals series along with STUNNER!|00:35 CATS GAMER SCORES:' Off the graphes' youthful gun fills up missing superstar gap as bargain pick-ups great' ONE OF THE BEST': Celebrity Feline STUNS Portress along with freak act ... yet it will not gain target of the yearSpeaking post-game at the Adelaide Oval, Scott rightly backed in play the lengthy game along with two of his crucial protectors. "If we took a danger with those men as well as it backfired it would not have been actually inconceivable, but the degree of difficulty would possess gone through the roof," Scott discussed." The strategy was to be conservative with those people and also hopefully still win the video game, so we're thinking really good about that choice now, but our experts're certainly not thriving of ourselves.Geelong have enrolled their pair of biggest wins of the 2024 season in back-t0-back video games, fresh off their 93-point sway West Coastline that completed their home-and-away season on a high.But as Scott has actually viewed original earlier this time against the likes of Carlton and also Gold Shoreline, it does not take a lot to become on the wrong end of a walloping like what they handed Slot Adelaide on Thursday night. "Our company have actually persevered the year along with the swings via the period ... you are actually a little bit of an off evening coming from being badly defeated," Scott carried on." Our company maintain finding that in order that are going to maintain our feets on the ground." They are actually ideal instances of when you play effectively you go, 'Oh, terrific choice' as well as if our company would certainly possess played inadequately it would have had to do with, 'What will've taken place if our team would certainly had Stewart as well as De Koning?'" But our focus is on possessing a great month, not acquiring desperate and also making an effort to bluff our method in to a prelim ... you can't perform that in finals." Scott admitted he was actually still having problem with the selection to play Stewart or otherwise after he picked up a hamstring criticism in his last outing prior to disease hinted the ranges." He possessed a really good number of full weeks of training as well as our experts were definitely hopeful that he will be right," the train said." He resided in full training for a treatment on Monday, our company presumed he was mosting likely to correct, but ... our experts were actually still weighing that up." At that point he started to follow cognizant a little an influenza, after that by the opportunity he got out of bed he was criminal enough that he would not participate in, so it only form of decided for him and our team a little less complicated." Yet, hand on center, we were actually bending towards certainly not playing him and our company 'd made the conservative phone call along with De Koning too." Stewart was actually presently racing versus the time clock to play on Thursday evening before catching a sickness (Photo by Michael Willson/AFL Photos using Getty Images) Source: Getty ImagesThe move to not play Stewart additionally would have thrown aspects of Slot Adelaide's plan the window as well, having properly delivered tension forward Jed McEntee to Stewart in their last 3 appointments along with overwhelming success.Beyond the defensive duo nonetheless, Tom Hawkins (feet) as well as Cam Guthrie (Achilles) are going to play in the VFL on Saturday early morning as they seek to drive their cases after lengthy discharges." Our program during was for them to play this week so our team'll push on keeping that," Scott added." We'll stay hopeful, keep open-minded, maintain all the alternatives on the dining table, and also make great decisions in the instant." I'll stand up to the lure to anticipate way too much I can sit below and guess, and it would not help anyone." Even with the lack of Hawkins up ahead versus the Energy, the Felines' foremost line shone as bright as any sort of this season - and having kicked 18 behinds for the night, can possess amazingly been actually ever before better.Superstars Jeremy Cameron and Tyson Stengle finished the evening with four goals apiece, while Gryan Miers and also Shaun Mannagh each booted three majors. Tom Stewart ruled out of Kitties v Port|02:08 Hawkins' replacement Shannon Neale kicked 2.2 coming from his nine fingertips and also nine marks, making the coming close to option call who to decide on in 2 weeks opportunity (hanging Hawkins' physical fitness) much more interesting due to the week.Asked if he want to find an initial final played in Geelong, not the MCG where it will certainly be booked, Scott responded with a troublesome shimmer in his eye." I believe my position has consistently been actually that you ought to play your home video games everywhere you really want," he confessed." Yet the AFL run the finals series as well as they've come to work out whether that is actually the right trait or not, as well as they are actually stabilizing a lot of points that I do not deal with that a lot." They have actually received the great of the activity face of thoughts plus all I care about is the Felines so it is actually sensible that our experts will disagree when we possess those various perspectives." However a prelim final (in Geelong)? Why not? It is actually a decent arena." What I will definitely claim is actually prelim finals will be actually played at some point at the Gold Coastline, or even at Giants Coliseum, or Hobart.".