Sydney tagger George Hewett has stemmed the influence of a host of prolific ball-winners in 2018 and is now faced with a revolving door of star GWS midfielders.

The 22-year-old has quelled the impact of 2018 All-Australians Tom Mitchell, Dustin Martin and Patrick Cripps to help the Swans to a ninth-straight finals campaign.

As Sydney prepares to clash with GWS in an elimination final at the SCG on Saturday afternoon, Hewett’s next task remains anyone’s guess.

The South Australian kept dangerous Giant Stephen Coniglio to just four second-half touches a fortnight ago, playing a key role in the Swans’ 20-point come-from-behind win at Spotless Stadium as they snared their ticket to the finals.

But midfielders Callan Ward, Josh Kelly, Dylan Shiel and rampaging 2018 All-Australian half-back Lachie Whitfield are all capable of winning a glut of possession themselves.

Hewett says he’s happy to play a shut-down or ball-winning role.

“Some of the best have beaten me and with some of them I’ve done all right,” Hewett told SwansTV.

“It’s a good challenge, it’s always good to keep learning and it’s important to play well for the team.

“My role is first and foremost to limit them but trying to get the ball yourself is also very important in today’s game.”

Hewett has played just 70 games and is one of the youngest Swans, but the 2013 draftee will run out for his seventh finals match in the elimination final.

As he fine-tunes his game for a third-straight finals campaign, he says the Swans’ resurgent finish to the regular season has them primed to stare down the Giants.

While the Swans fell to Hawthorn in the last round of the home-and-away season, they picked the lock on finalists Collingwood, Melbourne and GWS to climb from ninth on the ladder and finish sixth.

“We had a good last three or four weeks,” Hewett said.

“I know we lost to the Hawks but we won three on the trot against really good teams, so that should give us a lot of confidence heading into the finals. I think we can build on that heading into the Giants game.”

A host of Swans are set for their first tastes of September action, including forward Ben Ronke and midfielder Oliver Florent.

Young forward Tom McCartin is the youngest player in the AFL and would still be sporting Geelong Falcons colours if born two days later, but the 18-year-old has played 14 games this season en route to a maiden finals campaign of his own.

Hewett said the Swans’ emerging crop of youngsters had shown enormous promise.

“This year we’ve got a young group with boys who are playing good, consistent footy, like Ollie Florent, Ben Ronke and Will Hayward,” Hewett said.

“They’re really exciting and they’re going to play huge roles in the finals.”