Geelong coach Chris Scott praised his side's gutsy win, but admitted his side is not playing its best footy. Picture: Wayne Ludbey Source: News Corp Australia
GEELONG coach Chris Scott says his side is a long way behind this season's premiership favourites despite notching yet another last gasp victory on Friday night.
The Cats led Carlton by four goals midway through the third term, only to see that lead whittled away before the Blues took a 16-point lead of their own midway through the last quarter.
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But, inspired by some late heroics from an otherwise quiet Joel Selwood, the Cats kicked four of the last five goals of the game to record a thrilling five-point win.
"It was a gutsy win," Scott said.
"It was a win we were fortunate to get, I think. We played well enough to get ourselves in a position where we should have had control of the game and then looked like we lost it there.
George Horlin-Smith played one of the best game of his short career. Picture: Wayne Ludbey Source: News Corp Australia
"Good players in big moments hang in there and Selwood's finish was kind of what we've come to expect from him in the end.
"But that doesn't take away from the fact that I thought we were pretty fortunate. You don't see the ball in the centre bounce straight to your ruckman, then get a free kick and the advantage is paid to a guy who's a meter out (from goal) too often. And there were a few things like that that went our way tonight.
"When we take a step back over the next couple of days and review it I think there'll be a bit to be positive about, but it's clear we're behind the good teams in the competition at the moment so we've got some work to do."
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In a match littered with umpiring controversies, Scott — as mentioned above — conceded his team got the rub of the green when a wayward centre bounce that led to a crucial Geelong goal late in the second term was not called back and retaken.
But he also said Tom Hawkins may have been unfairly denied a proper shot on goal in the fourth quarter when the umpire called play on — presumably for taking more than the permitted 30 seconds — despite the forward being midway through his approach.
Geelong's Tom Hawkins had a second quarter to die for on Carlton's Sam Rowe. Picture: Michael Klein Source: News Corp Australia
"I hadn't seen it before — I just assumed that the man on the mark had gone back a long way and came charging in," he said.
"We did take the time just to ask before I came in to the press conference but we haven't got an answer yet so I genuinely don't know whether that decision was right or not.
"If it was wrong then it only offsets the centre bounce one where we got the goal.
"I'd like to think that we're strong enough as an organisation to say the same thing, or we would say the same thing, if the result didn't go our way."
Geelong had its chances to ice the game in the third quarter when it had the foot on the throat of its opponents.
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Scott lamented the inability of his players to take the opportunities that were presented to them when it looked as if the team was going to run away with the game.
"This is a really basic, under 12s coach answer, but I thought we had some really good opportunities to score and we just turned the ball over.
"If we could have the ball in one player's hands on the wing with free players ahead it'd be Steve Motlop, and when he kicks in to the middle straight to them, they're the sort of things (that hurt).
"I highlight that example, but there were lots and lots. There were some really technical, complex issues that we'll deal with in-house, but I just thought when we really had the chances to put the heat on them we blew them."
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