{"id":880434,"date":"2026-09-05T03:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T03:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/880434\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T03:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T03:04:13","slug":"afl-finals-2026-chris-scott-post-game-press-conference-geelong-cats-elimination-final-win-over-carlton-blues-video-latest-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/880434\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL Finals 2026: Chris Scott post game press conference, Geelong Cats elimination final win over Carlton Blues, video, latest news"},"content":{"rendered":"

Geelong coach Chris Scott has lauded the club\u2019s \u201chigh performing\u201d medical staff for helping get Max Holmes fit for Friday night\u2019s elimination final win over Carlton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Scott admitted to having some \u201ctrepidation\u201d to play Holmes after the star midfielder suffered a broken ankle and high-grade syndesmosis injury against St Kilda in Round 19.<\/p>\n

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But the 25-year old pushed to return well ahead of schedule in an injury that was initially expected to sideline him for the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n

Holmes finished with 15 disposals \u2014 10 in the second half \u2014 in a game-low 60 per cent time on ground.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m told that\u2019s a ridiculously quick recovery from that injury. You can\u2019t help but have some trepidation about making the decision to play him, and I don\u2019t mind saying that,\u201d Scott told reporters after the 33-point win over Carlton.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn\u2019t the deciding factor, but that medical team was so confident that him playing tonight would have him in better shape for next week, which is really saying something.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I did try and give them a pat on the back, they just turned around and said: \u2018Look, he was unbelievable with the way he went about it\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t rank them, but if you held a gun to my head and asked who\u2019s been our best player over the last three years, I think I\u2019d say him.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was really challenging when we lost him, but it was also really challenging making the decision to play him tonight, hoping we still have a few more weeks in our season.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Scott also acknowledged the confidence players have in the medical staff for Gryan Miers\u2019 strong form.<\/p>\n

Miers was among Geelong\u2019s best on Friday night with two goals from 24 disposals in a season he\u2019s been hampered by a partially torn ACL injury including spending time in the VFL.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, it has taken some mental resilience. Anyone would feel doubts with the suggestion of that sort of injury. It\u2019s a bit dangerous to say he has an ACL issue, because everyone thinks the worst when they hear that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve had a couple of examples this year, Max Holmes is a perfect example and Jeremy Cameron is a good one as well, of why our players have so much faith in our medical staff. They are a very, very high performing group of people.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know from experience, when you have that faith in those people, it\u2019s so reassuring … it\u2019s a real credit to that team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Geelong now look ahead to a tough away trip to Perth for a semi-final clash with minor premier Fremantle.<\/p>\n

The Geelong coach was \u201creally confident\u201d in his group ahead of the daunting assignment, pointing to how effectively the club has managed its list and veteran players.<\/p>\n

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Patrick Dangerfield is living proof. The 36-year old skipper starred with five goals from 21 disposals against Carlton in arguably his best game of the season.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve put a lot of thought into \u2014 and we have for a long, long period of time, probably the whole time I\u2019ve been at Geelong \u2014 the way we think about managing our list dominates a lot of our time,\u201d Scott said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes it works really well, sometimes it doesn\u2019t quite work out, but it\u2019s never because of a flippant decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cPatty (Dangerfield) is a good example, he understands the way we think about it and obviously he drives that decision making process as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s had a number of problems this year he\u2019s had to overcome. In his words, he feels like he\u2019s coming good at the right time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it actually sounds a bit arrogant when we say things like that: \u2018We\u2019re just pacing ourselves for September.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s not the world we live in. If we ever did, we don\u2019t now, the competition is way too tough. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf we don\u2019t perform well next week, it won\u2019t be through a lack of thought or some impediment in our preparation.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Scott wasn\u2019t underestimating the Dockers, despite their disastrous home qualifying final loss to Hawthorn.<\/p>\n

\u201cI probably need a bit more time to digest it. I watched it on TV, which doesn\u2019t always help with the whole picture,\u201d Scott said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI might be going a bit early if I give my opinion tonight. Even when you think about it casually, they didn\u2019t get to where they were without having a lot of capability.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt doesn\u2019t \ufeffmean they can necessarily roll it out after I\u2019m sure what they would consider to be less than their best.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think the result last night or the way they played will influence our thinking too much. But that\u2019s sort of our normal process, anyway, think about what teams can do at their best. Their best is daunting.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Geelong coach Chris Scott has lauded the club\u2019s \u201chigh performing\u201d medical staff for helping get Max Holmes fit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":880435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,85,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-880434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880434","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=880434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}