Utility Daniel Pratt said his teammates had a Monday discussion about former captain Anthony Stevens' final match, which saw the Roos crash to the Brisbane Lions by 113 points, and acknowledged that they wouldn't settle for a similar send-off for Grant.
"It's not the best way to send out a champion of the club and we'll be wanting to make sure that he finishes off the year and his career the best way possible," he said.
Dropping from fourth to seventh after round 22's other results, Pratt said the 76-point loss to the Power hadn't destroyed North's achievements of the previous weeks.
"We've done a lot of hard work this year to get to where we are and one game doesn't reflect on your whole season," he said. "We're playing finals this week and it's the second year in a row we've played finals.
"We could have finished fourth, which would have been fantastic for the club, but we're in the eight and we're just as much a chance as anyone else in the bottom four of the eight to progress through.
"If we can get past this week, anything can happen and we're just looking forward to playing up in Sydney.
"It's a new season basically and we're just got to win every game from where we are now. If you keep worrying about what happened or who you could play, it only just plays on your mind."
Pratt didn't watch the Swans' big win over the Lions on Saturday night, but expects to take in a replay as this clash nears.
Match-ups will be dictated by the anticipated return of Swans premiership players Adam Goodes and Ryan O'Keefe, who missed the victory over the Lions with respective groin soreness and the flu.
"We're expecting them to play," Pratt said. "We'll have plans in place for them and, if they don't play, we'll come up with something different.
"They're two very important players for them. One's a Brownlow Medallist and Ryan O'Keefe's probably their best finals player over the last five years.
"I'll definitely have a look at my opponents I might play on, but I won't go into it too much. We're just worried about what we're doing.
"We've played them plenty of times, their game plan hasn't changed a lot in the last few years, it's the same sort of style. They know how we play as well so both teams will be pretty well prepared."
However, the 25-year-old added that the Roos will be ready for the miserly, congested style that forced a draw in round six and the all-out attack from the Swans that produced 21 goals against Essendon two weeks later.
"It's funny, football these days," he said. "It can change from a slow-tempo contested, scrimmaging game into a free-flowing game just in one play.
"All the teams in the top eight are pretty prepared for that sort of thing and they can all change from slow plays to quick plays.
"I'm thinking that it's going to be a pretty physical, contested style of game. The last few times we've played them, it's been contested footy, not at a high pace but definitely at a physical pace."
