Geelong vice-captain Tom Stewart ready for any close attention in qualifying final against Port Adelaide

Geelong vice-captain Tom Stewart ready for any close attention in qualifying final against Port Adelaide

Geelong vice-captain Tom Stewart is ready for any Jed McEntee-sized plans Port Adelaide may or may not have for their qualifying final on Thursday night.

Now in his eighth year in the AFL, Stewart is already a five-time All-Australian defender, having stamped himself as one of the premier intercept players in the game from the moment he entered it as a mature-age recruit in 2017.

So dominant has the 31-year-old been during his decorated career, he has regularly had to work through defensive forward tags, especially in the past two years.

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Port Adelaide midfielder Willem Drew has assumed the role as the Power’s stopper in recent years, and has done it as effectively as any of his peers in the game.

But it has been McEntee that Power coach Ken Hinkley has sent to Stewart the past three times the two teams have played each other.

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