GEELONG does not care whether it plays finals at Etihad or the MCG if it wins this week and finishes top two, according to Cats coach Chris Scott.

He said the club would play a final at local club Newtown or travel to Perth or Sydney if it had to, as it was playing good enough football to compete with any team anywhere.

"My position is the AFL decides the finals draw," Scott said.

With an increasing likelihood that four matches will be played in Melbourne in week one of the finals, debate continues about whether one game should be scheduled at Etihad stadium or whether a double header should be played at the MCG.

There are some logistical hurdles relating to a double header, but MCG CEO Stephen Gough has said they can be overcome.

However if results fall as expected in round 23 and the AFL decides one final must be played at Etihad, the qualifying final between Geelong v Fremantle is tipped to be at the venue.

Whenever, wherever was the philosophy Scott adopted when asked for the club's position.

"We don't decide the draw. We don't have any influence over it at all," Scott said.

"Our home ground is Simonds Stadium first and the MCG second. We'd love to play there but we would love to play at Etihad as well."

The AFL has ruled out a final being played at the redeveloped Simonds Stadium, which will host a VFL game on Friday night.

It has an agreement to play a final at Etihad if more than two finals are played in Melbourne on the opening weekend, however, it can compensate the stadium with extra home and away games if it chooses to play all games at the MCG.

Scott said that whether finishing top two should give clubs the right to play at their preferred venue was a question for the AFL, not Geelong.

"They [the AFL] do talk about integrity almost incessantly, and I would have thought that goes to that in a respect, but it is not really an argument for me to have or for Geelong to have. That is a question you should be putting to the AFL," Scott said.

The Cats coach also emphasised that the club still had the big job of beating the Brisbane Lions to worry about before becoming too concerned with finals.

Geelong famously played a qualifying final on Sunday night against North Melbourne in 1997 despite finishing second.

It lost to the Kangaroos when Wayne Carey kicked seven goals.

The Cats then had to travel to Adelaide, which had finished fourth. It lost that game by eight points and was bundled out of the finals.