Geelong coach Chris Scott has dismissed solutions the Cats must dramatically overhaul their record to once more problem for the premiership.
After successful 16 straight video games to triumph in final yr’s grand closing, the Cats’ premiership defence resulted in a whimper by dropping to St Kilda by 33 factors on Saturday evening.
They will host the Western Bulldogs subsequent Saturday evening figuring out it’s mathematically not possible to qualify for the finals.
Geelong will sit out September for less than the second time since 2007 in a interval that has yielded 4 premierships, two beneath Scott’s teaching.
The Cats final missed finals in 2015, however had been in a position to rebound the next yr and make a preliminary closing.
“We’ll work through this a little bit more over the next couple of months, but I mean we’re not looking at it thinking we need to be terrible for a few years to then improve,” Scott mentioned.
“I don’t think we’re at that stage.
“There are only some groups which can be within the conventional rebuild in the mean time, the others have been doing it for some time and due to this fact they’re now fairly good.”
Geelong faced St Kilda without injured premiership heroes Mark Blicavs, Cam Guthrie, Gary Rohan and Rhys Stanley, while veteran forward Tom Hawkins was underdone in his first game back from a hamstring strain.
Superstars Jeremy Cameron – who went goalless – and Patrick Dangerfield were well below their brilliant best.
Forward Brad Close (ankle) and defender Esava Ratugolea (hamstring) both went down against the Saints and will be ruled out of facing the Bulldogs in the final round.
“That’s in all probability one of many issues with our season, it wasn’t simply the blokes that weren’t out on the park, it was those that might get on the market, however had been simply means off their greatest for numerous causes,” Scott mentioned.
“Quite rightly for my part, we do not need to promote that, it would not sound that good anyway.
“Some guys have been really restricted and a lot of those guys haven’t had a long off-season for 10 years so when we sit back we’ll find some some reasons to be optimistic about the opportunity moving into the future.”
Veteran Mitch Duncan and younger ahead Ollie Henry might be scrutinised by the match evaluate officer for potential dangerous-tackle incidents.
“My observation was St Kilda had the free kick and so he stopped, but Mitch didn’t know that he had stopped, so he was taken to ground as if the ball carrier was going to ride the tackle,” Scott mentioned.
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