Perryman performed a couple of huge acts in the dying minutes as the Giants' kicked off their finals campaign with a thrilling one-point win over Sydney last Saturday.

The Giants, who feature three AFL Riverina products, are now preparing for another sudden death semi-final, this time against the Cats at Optus Stadium in Perth.

Perryman, who is lucky enough to be playing his seventh AFL final at just 22, cannot wait for another taste of September action.

"It's what you play footy for, finals footy. It's what you go through the long season, long pre-season for, all you want to do is play finals," Perryman said.

"Especially after missing the finals last year, it makes you sit back and think about how much you want to get there again.

"I can't wait to be playing out there on Friday night at Optus Stadium in front of a good crowd. It should be good. You'd think they would pack it out, they love their footy over there."

The Giants will head to Perth in good form. They have won five out of their last six games, including their last four on the trot.

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GWS will also take confidence from 19-point win over the Cats just a month ago, in Geelong on a Friday night.

"It was a good win down there last time," Perryman said.

"We know that they're going to bounce back and they've got some good, experienced older blokes that have played a lot of finals so they're definitely going to be hard to beat.

"They're coming off a loss against Port last weekend too, so they're definitely going to be up and about and we're definitely going to have to be playing our best footy to knock them off."

Perryman said their last meeting proved how pivotal the midfield battle is.

"I think we got on top in the midfield so it's probably going to be won and lost in there," he said.

"If we can get on top in there, we can try and lock it in our forward line, get it deep to a couple of our dangerous forwards, that will be the main thing to get on top of them."

Perryman got up the ground onto a wing for periods of last weekend's win over Sydney, but expects to play predominantly down back like he has for most of the year.

"It was good to get up around the footy on a wing, which was good, and finals is always pretty intense so it's good to be up around the ball," he said.

"I'm happy to do whatever the team needs. As long as we're winning, I'm happy."

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