Jarryd Roughead dodges grand final ban The season's top goalkicker Jarryd Roughead will be there for the Hawks on grand final day. HAWTHORN match-winner Jarryd Roughead will play in Saturday's AFL grand final after avoiding suspension by the narrowest of margins. The John Coleman Medal winner averted suspension against Fremantle by a week. His carryover demerit-points sanction for an indiscretion in last year's qualifying final expired in the second week of this year's finals series, a timely bonus for the talented redhead, who is the Hawks' and competition's leading goalkicker this year with 70. Roughead pleaded guilty last September to rough conduct against Collingwood's Chris Dawes and accepted the offer of a reprimand, with 70.31 points added to his record for the following 12 months. He was yesterday charged by the match review panel for engaging in rough conduct against Geelong's Cameron Guthrie in the final quarter of last Friday night's preliminary final, after laying a block on the Cats defender that forced him from the field for medical attention. Based on video evidence and a medical report from the Cats, the incident was assessed as negligent conduct, low impact and high contact, drawing 125 demerit points and a one-match sanction. With an early guilty plea, which reduces his points by 25 per cent, Roughead is certain to accept the offer of a reprimand and carry 93.75 demerit points for the entire 2014 season. The panel also looked at Hawthorn defender Grant Birchall's collision with Mathew Stokes and deemed contact was solely to the body of the Geelong midfielder, and that there was no forceful high contact made. No further action was taken. Meanwhile, Hawthorn is planning a united midfield strategy to prevent specialist Fremantle tagger Ryan Crowley from getting under the skin of his opponent. The in-form Crowley has had the better of Geelong's Steve Johnson and Sydney co-captain Kieren Jack in the Dockers first two finals and is poised to go head-to-head with Hawthorn's Sam Mitchell. Mitchell, who is renowned for his composure under pressure, had 38 possessions against Geelong last Friday night. Teammate Shaun Burgoyne yesterday said the Hawks were mindful of not getting caught up by Crowley's verbal barrage and close-checking tactics. Burgoyne also warned Crowley the Hawks were prepared and willing to give Mitchell plenty of support if he was the target of the competition's shut-down specialist. He said he doubted whether Crowley's characteristic tactics would ruffle the Hawthorn premiership captain. "That's just his (Crowley's) game," Burgoyne said. He's made a career of tagging players and being very good at it. You can't get sucked into those mind games of trash talking, niggling. Burgoyne said the team knew exactly what to expect from Crowley. "It's up to us guys to help him," he said. I have no doubt he (Mitchell) will have an influence on our game. It's going to take 22 players to win this week ... So we'll definitely go out of our way to help out whoever he (Crowley) goes to.