Scott on the initial takeaways

It was good, I thought when the game was on the line early, we were pleased with the way we approached the game and set it up.

I think we will come away feeling like we are in pretty good shape, as far as I know we haven't got any injuries out of the game.

The last quarter and a half was probably pretty difficult, it is hard to stop your mind going to the future.

That would be a reasonable thing to do, even in the last quarter so I wouldn't pay too much attention to the last 40 or 50 minutes. 

Scott on how September is shaping up

I have thought for a long time, and especially this year, you hear a little bit of the conversation around the nine teams that are in it and then the other nine teams.

It is shocking sometimes how quickly we go to the negative, it is just remarkable that you have nine teams who have had such good seasons and one of them is going to miss.

It seemed to us for a long time that all those teams would have confidence that on their day, they could beat any of the other teams. Then it comes down to things like how you are on the day, what sort of form you are in and what availability you have.

On that note, we think we are pretty well positioned. Obviously we are not over confident, you look around and think there are eight other very good teams that are going to be hard to beat. 

Scott on the Cats run home

You couldn't prove it, even if you had a feeling that it was an issue.

It is one of those things that if it goes well, it will look like proof that it wasn't an issue and if it doesn't, it will come up as an issue.

I thought we played pretty well under pressure against the Swans, who were pretty hot last week.

You can analyse these things to death and still not come up with a very clear picture. We will just play what is in front of us. 

Scott on the Pre-Finals bye

We have obviously got a plan, but as I said I think we are in pretty good shape.

It is not a matter of us thinking we need the bye and that we have players who need that extra time off, we are pretty much ready to go.

I don't think we will be taking the foot off the gas too much, we will just be pushing on because there is not long to go.

Sometimes you get to that stage where you think wouldn't it be great to have 10 days downtime because we really need it, but it doesn't feel like we are in that position.