Chris Scott on... Where the game was lost

Brisbane just beat us in the contest, I thought. I didn't think it was a complicated game, I thought their contest work gave them so much more territory and opportunity to score. I thought our defenders held up really well. Defensively as a group we were a little bit off, around the ball we were a little bit off, and that's a bad combination against Brisbane. 

They tend to overwhelm teams, particularly up here with entries into a dangerous forward line and again, but I thought our defenders held up. Lesser players could have been obliterated given the way we were going around the ball.

We changed a few things which helped marginally.

Chris Scott on... The Positives

We've come away in the immediate aftermath, and this might change over the next couple of days, is that our sense as a coaching group, and even with some of the senior players, is that we got a lot wrong and didn't play particularly well, but hung in enough to give ourselves a chance to steal it which is a really good sign. 

I've said it for a long, long time with the players I've coached at Geelong, it's such a nice feeling being the coach knowing that they won't give up. The game was clearly going against us, it was going to be hard work to get back but they were going to hang in if there was a little opening, they'd be there to jump through it, so I thought that was the positive. 

Chris Scott on... The Run Home

What I can speak to is the confidence we have in ourselves. We were far from as good as we can be, tonight, but we are confident that if we do get it right our best is very, very good. And that's what we've got to focus on. So, trying to work whether we can get there, or how good the opposition are is kind of for others to work through. 

My view is that it's just so tight in the competition that if you start looking ahead and working out where you are, you'll just get distracted.