GEELONG won't cry over spilt milk if Paul Chapman is suspended from next Friday night's preliminary final clash against Hawthorn, with coach Chris Scott confident the Cats could cover the loss of the superstar veteran.

Scott said after the Cats' 16-point win over Port Adelaide on Friday night he had not seen the incident for which Chapman had been reported for rough conduct.

Chapman was reported after bumping Port forward Robbie Gray at the nine-minute mark of the third quarter.

Chapman's contact with Gray was similar to Lance Franklin's bump on Sydney Swan Nick Malceski in round 23 – low impact but head-high – that earned the star Hawk a one-match suspension, sidelining him from Hawthorn's qualifying win over the Swans.

"I'm told that there's something that will be looked at," Scott said.

"I don't make a habit of going into detail about those sort of incidents anyway even if I had have seen it.

"Every man and his dog is going to have an opinion on it. We'll bite our tongue and do what we need to do in the next couple of days."

Chapman put an injury-plagued season behind him on Friday night, starring in the Cats' comeback win with a game-high four goals.

Scott conceded Chapman would be a loss if suspended, but said the Cats had enough in-form players outside their semi-final 22 to cover him.

"If he misses, one thing we won't do is cry over spilt milk," Scott said.

"I don't think we did that last week. I mean, losers think about ‘what if’. If only we had have played better against Freo we could have had the week off.

"The bottom line is we're in a prelim, we'll have 22 players who are playing really good footy because we do have a number of them on the sidelines who can come into our team, and we'll give it a really good shake.

"I hope Chappy's a part of it. If he's not, we'll move on."

The Cats have other selection concerns ahead of their clash with the Hawks.

Defender Jared Rivers injured his left ankle late in the third term in a collision with Port defender Jay Schulz, while Corey Enright is racing the clock to return from a medial ligament strain suffered in the Cats' qualifying final loss to Fremantle.

Scott said the fact Rivers had to be substituted from the game early in the last quarter was "a little bit of a concern".

"Hopefully by not playing on it in the last quarter he's more likely to be available than he would have been," he said.

Scott said Enright's knee had been immobilised since he injured it, but the star defender had not been ruled out of the preliminary final.

"When we take the brace off and get him moving again we'll know a bit more, but the medical staff certainly didn't rule him out for next week," Scott said.