his side\u2019s nine-point loss to Fremantle on Thursday night,<\/a> Scott suggested the public focus on concussion timelines can often be misplaced, insisting the club\u2019s approach is to leave medical decisions entirely in the hands of health professionals.<\/p>\n\u201cThe concussion window is a bit of a furphy,\u201d Scott told journalists post-match in Perth.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a guideline there, and you probably know about it more than I do, because we take the approach of we don\u2019t want to get involved at all. I\u2019m taking that view more and more when it comes to injury, full stop.\u201d<\/p>\n
Scott then revealed he was increasingly uncomfortable with questions regarding players\u2019 medical situations, believing there was an important privacy element that should be respected.<\/p>\n
\u201cI do, if I\u2019m being really honest, take offence to getting questioned on players\u2019 personal injury status. I think not many people have to deal with that, and there is an element of it being private. That\u2019s the approach we take internally as well,\u201d Scott continued.<\/p>\n
Dockers hold on to beat the Cats | 03:07<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are moving more to a model where we don\u2019t take much interest at all until the players are cleared to play.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stewart\u2019s earliest possible return to AFL level from the mandatory 12-day protocols was never made public, however Scott\u2019s retrospective reveal on his availability suggest he may have been able to play if fit.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was probably clear to us Tuesday afternoon that he wasn\u2019t playing, and we just moved on. Literally, there\u2019s not another question asked after that,\u201d the two-time premiership coach said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wouldn\u2019t ask anyway …. What I\u2019m happy to say, is there hasn\u2019t been anything negative. It\u2019s just that he wasn\u2019t going to be available, and we moved on.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stewart\u2019s absence was keenly felt against the ladder-leading Dockers, with Geelong falling just short despite an undermanned side that was also missing Bailey Smith through illness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Geelong coach Chris Scott has described the AFL\u2019s concussion return-to-play timeframe as a \u201cfurphy\u201d while making clear he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":745882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-745881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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