Chris Scott on… Jhye Clark 

I am going to keep my word, and I said I won't talk about Jhye Clark's potential to debut until it's about to happen and it's about to happen so it's great news for our footy club, our supporters.  Especially those who have been watching him play in the VFL, they'll be completely across the fact that he's ready to come in and play well for us on a big occasion, Friday night at the MCG against a team we respect very highly. 

We always have our eyes closely on the up-and-coming Geelong based players at underage level. Unfortunately, a player of Jhye's quality, we often watch them closely and see them disappear early in the draft to other clubs and this is one of the rare situations where one of those players we were coveting actually ended up at our club.

His junior footy showed he's a really competitive inside player, great agility, good ball user, really quite a complete young player. 

Chris Scott on… Team Changes

The forced changes with (Patrick) Dangerfield and (Brad) Close, so Clark will come into the 23, Brandan Parfitt will come in as well, which we're excited about.

Parf's been a little bit of a victim of the players we've been choosing to play inside. We think his best position is inside for us and he'll spend big minutes in there as well tomorrow night, so talking about (Mitch) Knevitt, Jhye Clark and Max Holmes almost makes Parfitt seem like a veteran, but he's not, he's still early on his journey and a young player and it's great to see him in the team as well. 

Chris Scott… Brandan Parfitt

I've loved his attitude and I feel this way about all of our players but he's a hard person not to like, Parf. 

If you go back to last year, and it's rare that I do this, but I will elaborate on Brandan's situation; in my opinion he was in our A-Grade inside midfield group about the half way mark of last year and had a significant hand injury which meant he missed a lot of football and that coincided with a period where we made some changes to our midfield and some players came back and they started playing really good footy together and it became difficult for him to get back into the position where he was mid-year.

Fortunately, in my mind he found a way into the Grand Final team, had a good pre-season this year and just circumstance has kept him out of the team.

Chris Scott… Patrick Dangerfield 

There's a plan that the physical performance team have put together.

For my part, and conveying it publicly, I would just emphasise without stepping on our medical teams' toes, it is minor, but we will manage everyone's expectations with that. He will come back into our senior team well and truly after he's ready which sort of mimics what we did with him last year, but it doesn't speak to the severity of the injury.

Probably a little bit similar to Mitch Duncan earlier in the year. 

Chris Scott on… Shannon Neale 

He had complications from an initial ankle injury.

It was one of those situations where the procedure he had wasn't clear cut but once he had it done, the surgeon was very happy he did do it, so it meant a little bit more time on the sidelines than it otherwise would have been the case but has really reduced the likelihood of any recurrence so again with all our young players, we think that's the best approach.

We'd take an extra month or six weeks if we could get them right long term every time, so my understanding is kind of post-bye proposition but starting to move around a lot better.