THE WESTERN Bulldogs maintain they will enter Friday night's preliminary final against St Kilda at full strength despite Adam Cooney and Will Minson missing Thursday's final training session at the MCG.

Minson also missed Tuesday's hit-out at Whitten Oval with what Rodney Eade said was a stubbed toe.

Football operations manager James Fantasia earlier said the Dogs had nothing to worry about on the injury front with key defender Tom Williams also fit.

"The powder is dry. There will obviously be given some consideration to Tom Williams as he got through last week," Fantasia said on Thursday.

"He can certainly offer us that other tall defender. I'm sure Rodney and the coaches will deliberate that today.

"[His fitness] will be the big question mark. One game in four weeks is not necessarily the best preparation, but he got through and he's been training well, and that's where he'll be given consideration."

Robert Murphy (knee) and Ryan Griffen (calf) were two of 25 players who started Thursday's session.

Andrejs Everitt, Brennan Stack, Wayde Skipper, Josh Hill and Dylan Addison were also present, while Brian Lake and Jason Akermanis did static work in tracksuits.

Fantasia said Everitt, who performed well when he replaced Ben Hudson in round 22 only to be dropped for the first final, was also a chance.

"When you think three weeks ago when he played, he can even pinch-hit in the ruck," he said.

"Andrejs is developing part of his game to not only be a defender, but to be a player who can push forward and play across the midfield, so he's got lots of strings to his bow."

Fantasia revealed players had revisited their 2008 preliminary final loss to Geelong, watching the video they made for last year's best and fairest count that showed the pain of the outcome.

However, he said the lead-up to Friday night's game had been largely similar to their usual preparation.

"One of the factors going into this campaign that's different to last year, the players themselves have generated their theme for finals, and part of that is to not overplay it and to believe in the preparation you've put yourself through all season," he said.

"Our club, as a whole but certainly as a team, feel we're better prepared this time compared to this time last year. We get confidence from that.

"As a club, we're growing. It was evident last week when the siren went and we'd won the game, and you celebrate the win but there was still a sense there was a job to be done.

"That's a sign we're maturing and have a better understanding of the competition.

"There's no doubt our guys will go into this game thinking they can win it, and that's an important thing."

Fantasia added the players had drawn particular confidence from their pre-season training trip to Arizona.