Chris Scott and John Longmire had been each left to lament their groups dropping two essential factors within the finals race after the Cats drew with the Swans on the SCG.
The Cats misplaced a one-point lead when Isaac Heeney snapped a behind with 30 seconds remaining, however the Swans had simply as a lot purpose to really feel like victory had been snatched from their grasp.
The hosts dominated a lot of the competition, notably within the first half, however had been unable to make the Cats pay on the scoreboard as a nasty case of the yips took maintain on Friday evening.
The Swans had 32 photographs to the Cats’ 22, however solely managed a wasteful 6.18 to 7.12 as final yr’s grand finalists completed stage on 54 factors.
“It feels like two points is better than none. And none is probably what we deserve for large parts of it,” Cats coach Scott mentioned.
“Having said that, we were the team in front late in the game.
“It’s straightforward to suppose it isn’t your evening. But I used to be happy with the best way our guys hung in. I’m assuming they (the Swans) can be fairly flat.”
While the result and two points earned pushes the Cats (7-7-1) into the top eight with much of round 16 still to play out, the reigning premiers missed an opportunity to climb as high as fifth.
But the Swans (6-8-1) could pay a heavier price for their inaccuracy with their finals hopes now teetering on the edge after a mid-season slump.
“The disappointing factor to come back out of tonight is we did not get final reward for effort,” Swans coach Longmire mentioned.
“It might have been worse, we might have been sitting right here with out two factors.”
The Swans will hope to add spearhead Lance Franklin to their misfiring forward line when they face a must-win clash with Richmond on Thursday night.
Key defender Tom McCartin will also be pressing for a recall after a second hit out in the VFL, but Longmire refused to look too far ahead as he searched for positives from the draw.
“That first half we performed some actually good footy and we simply did not hit the scoreboard,” Longmire mentioned.
“Then we bought eight factors down and fought again, so it is a unusual one, you do not know really feel after video games like that.”
The Cats will be sweating on the review of a Brad Close tackle on Aaron Francis in the opening term when he wrapped up the Swans defender’s arms and took him to ground.
Francis’ head hit the turf on the best way down and he took a while to get to his toes, however he performed out the match and Longmire revealed that the first-year Swan appeared high quality within the rooms post-game.
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