Geelong coach Chris Scott spoke to Channel Seven earlier than the sport…
Q: 9 days is a very long time between video games, however what is essential to your boys?
A: It looks like a very long time since we picked the workforce, Thursday evening, a bit not sure of the circumstances but it surely seems fairly good in the mean time. Hawthorn need to play quick and put folks within the hall so the best way we defend that’s key to the sport.
Q: (Tom) Stewart and (Joel) Selwood again within the recreation, Stewart out final week by means of sickness, supplies a right away increase having them again.
A: Two large ins. We try to develop right into a workforce the place we don’t depend on any small group of gamers, however nobody can substitute the most effective gamers so I believe Stewart again there shores us up and we’ll have to be sturdy as a result of they’ve gone a bit of taller with (Jacob) Koschitzke coming in and shifting the ball quick, we might want to defend nicely.
Q: 100 video games or Brandan Parfitt, we neglect he’s solely 23. A terrific milestone.
A: It’s onerous to consider he in all probability ought to have gotten there faster, he has had some severe hamstring accidents which have taken some work to beat, he had hamstring surgical procedure over a nasty one final 12 months however has come again so nicely and has turn into an necessary a part of what we do.