The Cats head into a qualifying final against Port Adelaide with two of the most decorated players returning from long-term injuries via the VFL, while Melbourne’s Alex Neal-Bullen has nominated the club he wants to play for next year.
Premiership pair Tom Hawkins and Cam Guthrie will play in the VFL semi-final this week as they attempt to make themselves available for selection during Geelong’s finals series.
Cats’ coach Chris Scott said it was important the pair played to give themselves any chance of being selected later in the finals series, but it was “far from a lay-down misere that if those guys got through we would play them in an AFL game the next week.” “We are not in the position where we can get sidetracked by the quality of those names up on the magnet board,” Scott said. “Clearly, they have been two of our best players over a long period of time, we have got to deal in the reality of the current situation.”Scott said Lawson Humphries and Tom Stewart would play but was coy on which role Sam De Koning would play.
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