Geelong coach Chris Scott says All-Australian defender Tom Stewart is ‘banging down our door’ to face Gold Coast this weekend, just two weeks after injuring his knee against Collingwood in Round 1.

Stewart suffered a Grade 2 MCL injury to his right knee against the Magpies but has made sufficient progress in his recovery to potentially be back on Sunday to face the Suns.

The Cats will go through their main training session on Thursday, with Stewart ‘close’ to being available to play.

"He's made really, really, strong progress, he's banging down our door," Scott told reporters on Thursday morning.

"I think every situation is slightly different, but I think you should be referencing more what we've done with (Jake) Kolodjashni and Mitch Duncan there in that, yeah they might be ready, but generally we're inclined to hold them back and there are exceptions to that rule, (Tom) Hawkins is one.

“It's really exciting for us that an injury that looked like it good be multiple weeks, even a month, is not going to be that. If it's not this week it looks like it will be next week which is great news for everyone.”

Scott said if it was up to Stewart, he would play.  

“It shouldn't have surprised me because you don't really know how it’s going to go until he progresses to the running stage and that's progressed really quickly to the point where he thinks he can play so that's a really good sign, he said.

“But that's the lot of a coach, you get very minimal information until they get to a certain milestone and then it's either really good news and you're surprised on the upside or it's a bit negative and you're surprised on the downside. Rarely it's exactly how I predict it because I just don't get involved in that minutiae.” 

The Cats coach also said Jeremy Cameron is ‘certain’ to play while it is too early to say whether ruckman Rhys Stanley gets up after copping a knock to the ribs last week against Carlton. Defender Jake Kolodjashnij is also likely to return.