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14 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

According to everyone's favourite non MFC coach.

Geelong had too many players under an injury or illness cloud and thus the game should've been postponed until Geelong were fit and healthy.

No excuses but flummoxed Scott still wonders why prelim went ahead

This is the tree that the Herald Sun should be barking up if they want to troll an AFL coach - not Goody.

Coach says “my players are soft”.

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27 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

According to everyone's favourite non MFC coach.

Geelong had too many players under an injury or illness cloud and thus the game should've been postponed until Geelong were fit and healthy.

I mean, I hate him as much as anyone and it's a pretty thinly veiled attempt at making excuses, but that's not what he said at all.

He said, in hindsight, it could have been COVID as far as they knew and the AFL had a meeting about it.

Let's not have a thread about misleading media reporting and then do the same thing ourselves.

 

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7 minutes ago, poita said:

Chris Scott: No excuses, but "add fifty five excuses of varying levels of sookiness".

Yep, started early in the season, with the quarters should be shorter and went on from there.  The game is ruthless these days, you can't have a coach moaning all the time because it doesn't suit his club, it is what it is cop it prepare for it and don't seek an audience to complain about it.

His side wasn't going to beat us in the prelim, we took the stuffing out of them in the last round they were ordinary in the finals, they got smacked by Port, the game against GWS wasn't a good game and smack by us.

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40 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

According to everyone's favourite non MFC coach.

Geelong had too many players under an injury or illness cloud and thus the game should've been postponed until Geelong were fit and healthy

No excuses but flummoxed Scott still wonders why prelim went ahead

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why I didn’t ask the question - how could I guarantee they weren't COVID issues?

So the Cats went into a game with multiple unwell players even knowing the covid restrictions etc that were in place? Why haven't they been reprimanded for this? Surely this was against the AFL and WA's covid protocols to let players they knew were unwell out in public let alone take the field.

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49 minutes ago, pewpewpew said:

Aged care residents during the height of COVID were more resilient than this mob.

It's the aged care residents that Scott's talking about!

 

41 minutes ago, drdrake said:

you can't have a coach moaning all the time because it doesn't suit his club,

You are correct. But it can work. And it didn't stop Clarkson from trying. Reminds me of the days of Sheedy when he was practically a one-man official rules committee.

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49 minutes ago, Lord Nev said:

I mean, I hate him as much as anyone and it's a pretty thinly veiled attempt at making excuses, but that's not what he said at all.

He said, in hindsight, it could have been COVID as far as they knew and the AFL had a meeting about it.

Let's not have a thread about misleading media reporting and then do the same thing ourselves.

 

If there were any COVID doubts whatsoever, McGowan would’ve shut the game down at the drop of a hat.

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20 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

If there were any COVID doubts whatsoever, McGowan would’ve shut the game down at the drop of a hat.

100%. Plus players are tested fairly regularly from my understanding. They would have known it wasn't COVID, he is just having a whinge as per usual.

No wonder their players are so entitled, their coach is the worst of the lot.

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Did any of the Kitty Cats test Positive for Covid?

and when would the game be played once those same Kitty Cats were deemed healthy? 
In the same Podcast you also said that The Demons would have won easily, even if all your players were healthy. 
(Was Gary Rohan fit and well)
 

Better to say nothing i think….

Might watch the Preliminary Final again this weekend 

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1 hour ago, Lord Nev said:

I mean, I hate him as much as anyone and it's a pretty thinly veiled attempt at making excuses, but that's not what he said at all.

He said, in hindsight, it could have been COVID as far as they knew and the AFL had a meeting about it.

Let's not have a thread about misleading media reporting and then do the same thing ourselves.

 

AFL players get Covid tested regularly and would have been tested prior to entry and just after arrival into WA where they were locked away in a hub. It was never going to be Covid. 
 

All I hear from this club is whinging and crying. 

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35 minutes ago, dee-tox said:

Bizarre. Why give your players an out? What does that do for the psychology of the group?

Not bizarre at all. This whole interview is intended for the Geelong playing group. He's telling them not to be despondent because there's a good reason they got thumped. At the same time he's telling them that they were good enough to make the 2021 PF, not good enough to be 2021 Premiers but definitely good enough to win in 2022.

It's not dissimilar to the strategy behind Goodwin saying that he never bothered to review the 2018 Preliminary Final.

 

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