GWS coach Leon Cameron says Giants' stars Stephen Coniglio and Nick Haynes are touch and go to play in Saturday week's AFL home elimination final against Western Bulldogs.
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Cameron says Toby Greene and Jacob Hooper will both be back from injury for that game and Brett Deledio is progressing well.
There are still question marks over midfielder Coniglio, who has missed six games with a knee injury and All-Australian squad member and key back Haynes, who didn't play in last Saturday's final round win over Gold Coast, after suffering a fractured cricoid in his throat the previous week.
Cameron said Coniglio had been cleared to do some more agility work but, speaking in Melbourne, Coniglio said he was more unlikely than likely to play.
Haynes will train this week but won't do any contact work in the early sessions.
Cameron said Haynes would be checked out by a specialist either later this week or early next week
"The specialist would be the one that makes that final call, but he's had an outstanding year and we're a significantly better side when he's playing," GWS captain and fellow key defender Phil Davis said.
"He's desperate to play and we're desperate for him to play as well, so we'll see how that pans out, but he's confident, I'm confident he'll get up too.
"He's been able to play through a fair bit of adversity this year and perform really well."
Haynes suffered the injury in a clash with Marcus Bontempelli, with the Bulldogs superstar fined for rough conduct but avoided suspension.
"Thats done and dusted, I know there was a fair bit of speculation about that and we moved on straight away,"' Cameron said.
The Bulldogs caned GWS by 61 points at Giants Stadium just over a week ago, kicking the last 12 goals and holding their hosts goalless in the second half.
They also won an epic preliminary final in 2016 in their only previous visit to the venue.
"Their scoring has gone through the roof the last month or so and we all know they are moving the ball from one end of the ground to the other as quickly as any team in the competition and that makes for a dangerous team to defend," Cameron said.
"It's going to be a game that's going to be up and down as quick as probably we've seen for a long, long time but no doubt there's things that we need to make sure that we're better at than what we were eight days ago."
Australian Associated Press
