> Assistant coach Mark Neeld addresses the media on Wednesday

COLLINGWOOD forward Alan Didak has trained strongly on Wednesday ahead of the side's qualifying final against the Western Bulldogs on Saturday night.

Didak, who missed last round's loss to Hawthorn with a shoulder injury, led strongly and marked the ball comfortably during the club's session in rain at Gosch's Paddock.

Simon Prestigiacomo and Ben Johnson are also under injury clouds, and though Johnson trained with the main group, Prestigiacomo was nowhere to be seen.

"We think we're in a healthy spot. We've got probably three or four guys that didn't play last week, as everybody knows, and our main training session will start in about 25 minutes," assistant coach Mark Neeld said.

"We'll see how they pull up, we'll have probably our second or third match committee after that, then we'll name the side.

"We've got the beauty of having another training session after we've named the side. Like the Bulldogs, we'll pick 22 plus three emergencies and we'll make sure the 22 come from that 25.

"Most of those boys will train. Presti won't come outside, he'll train inside, but that's not unusual.

"I'm sure the Bulldogs will have a scout here watching, and they'll report back to Rocket (Bulldogs coach Rodney Eade) that Presti didn't train outside, he trained inside, and we expect him to get up and play."

Meanwhile, Neeld said he hadn't applied for the senior coaching jobs available at Port Adelaide and Essendon because his focus was on Collingwood's finals campaign.

"We need every single person here concentrating on what we're about, and I'm no different to any of the other assistants," he said. "I'm more worried about the Western Bulldogs midfield than anything else.

"Have I thought about it? Oh, everyone thinks about it.

"I think if you get a job as an assistant coach you want to be the best possible assistant you can be, and we all have thoughts about where you want to go in the future.

"My theory would be, if you're an assistant coach, be the very best assistant coach you can be, and if you do a good job, someone may notice."