Scott on Geelong's contested dominance
I agree, I thought around the ball that our guys were pretty strong.
It is not as if we absolutely forecast how the game is going to play out, but we did expect that there was a good chance that it could be tight early. They play a contested style of game and we could make the case pretty well, that the venue and the way the game was likely to be played would sort of suit what they have been trying to do.
That is the way it played out, so in a way I thought our players did a good job of hanging in there, without thinking that the game wasn't going that well because the scores were close.
As that arm wrestle broke open a little bit, I thought some of our guys were able to get out into space off the back of those clearance wins.
I guess that part that is still a little frustrating for us is that with that dominance, we just didn't execute. That is sort of basic stuff, I am not talking any sophisticated tactical stuff but just our execution with the ball was a little bit off.
We got the scoring shots, we got the entries but just didn't complete our work as well as we would have liked.
Scott on Bailey Smith's performance
He is going well. Obviously his running power as much as anything is really helping us.
He is a strong player too, I thought he relished the tight contest work early in the game. He has just got that relentless running power, and I think that has been a change to our team over the last couple of years.
He has obviously complemented it, but I thought he and Holmes, Miers and those types of players breaking out into space gave us some good looks.
He is quite hard on himself, Bailey, I don't think he is sitting back thinking that he had a perfect game by any stretch of the imagination. But he was obviously very influential.
Scott on James Worpel and Tanner Bruhn
They are different, so to address them individually.
Tanner has been one of our best players all year, five games in. We do everything to focus on the now and the immediate future, and he is a real positive for us.
Then Worpel coming back in, we brought him in for a specific reason and I think we saw it today. I thought he was really good in tight, again the way the game was played and the venue probably suited his strengths.
It gave us, and I think will give us into the future, at least the option to play a few of our hard running players outside the contest a bit more.
Holmes was a bit more back today, Smith wasn't always in the middle, Miers was on the outside a little bit more and Tanner was a bit of both. They are both positives for us.
Scott on managing the short breaks
We are thoughtful of it, or thoughtful about it.
Those guys in particular, if you think of them as track and field athletes, five days or six days recovery is fine for them. They will be fine, we don't think too much about their running load.
They could back up and play in three days off the back of that, it is more managing the guys who have had niggling injuries. It is a bit hard for us to communicate accurately the situation with all these players.
Jack Martin with his history, it was just logical that we wouldn't play him in all three of these games.
Jack Henry was a little bit different, we had intended to play him and he had this little oblique strain that was enough for us to keep him out.
This is nothing new for us, in my time at the Cats we have thought about how we use a big squad of players and manage them through.
Scott on Mark Blicavs' looming milestone
It just an amazing story too.
It feels like yesterday that we were sitting in his house in Sunbury, talking about the possibility of playing AFL footy. It felt like a one in a million to be honest, it felt like a long drive for something that wasn't going to bear any fruit at all.
Now we look back and think that was the best investment of time we have ever made.
Even his first year, he was so far off AFL footy it wasn't funny.
To be correctly acknowledged as a Geelong great, I think it is a credit to him.
