Scott on his initial takeaways

Momentum shifts are short, this was the whole game.

After the first couple of goals, it was a really strange performance. We had some challenges with individuals, but we had a bad night.

It looked a little bit flat and when that happens, you want to come up against a team that is feeling a bit the same way. But it was the opposite, they were really good.

It is very, very unusual for us to be denied not only entries, but opportunities in our forward half full stop.

So Port obviously played that part of the game really well, but it was difficult to explain our performance. I think the final margin was 30 points, but it should have been 60. 

Scott on what went wrong

We played well the last couple of weeks and had a bad one tonight.

But as always, when you play poorly it is multi-faceted and clearly very heavily influenced by the way the opposition played. They were really sharp, besides their conversion they were good.

The signs weren't great from reasonably early in the first quarter, and we just couldn't arrest it.

We tried a few things, or more than a few things and just couldn't get the game played the way we wanted. 

Scott on what the Cats need to fix

It is always a balance, I think the challenge is trying to work out what are real issues that need to be addressed and what are fleeting things that you can move past pretty quickly.

I am a big believer in the game full stop, but especially knowing our group so well, that you shouldn't jump at shadows.

You don't want to wait too long, but you do need to see a pattern before you make big changes. If you do make those big changes and then you see something else the next week, you forget who you are and then you are changing all the time.

I don't think there are huge fundamental problems with our game, we certainly had some individuals off but that happens.

I think it is likely that we will stay positive and try to forget that one as quickly as possible. 

Scott on Mark Blicavs

Just that they are hopeful it is not serious.

I don't think it was clear cut that he couldn't go on, but I guess the role that I play in that is that I really do encourage our medical staff to be conservative with these things.

It is always dangerous to give an early diagnosis, and we would be really just straight and up front with you if it was something clear cut and he was going to miss weeks, but it is not that. I mean it may well end up being that, once they do all the investigations.

But I think they have a level of optimism that this could be really short term and the fact that he didn't play on, at least in my way of thinking about it, that has to help his prospects of coming back.