Chris Scott as soon as famously stated he wouldn’t prefer to see his twin brother Brad return as an AFL coach, claiming the job was not an excellent one.
There was one more reason, which has been proved repeatedly this season – it is a function Brad, like Chris, is superb at.
Chris’s Geelong will host Brad’s Essendon on Saturday night time at GMHBA Stadium in a blockbuster conflict with main top-eight ramifications.
Brad, who has additionally coached North Melbourne, has reworked the Bombers since taking up late final 12 months. They lie fifth, whereas the eighth-placed Cats are rising in confidence.
Geelong will begin favourites, primarily due to their vital home-ground benefit but in addition due to the numerous enhance of the return of key ahead Jeremy Cameron from concussion.
But the Cats coach is underneath no illusions concerning the problem introduced by Essendon.
“One of the downsides of (Brad) coming back was I was pretty confident he’d improve the club he went to,” Chris Scott stated on Friday.
“That’s the part on my mind this week, rather than the novelty of it all.
“It’s multi-faceted – they’ve simply develop into a staff, to our remark, which have alternative ways of beating you they usually’re at all times the toughest groups to play in opposition to.
“Fundamentally they’re sound and it’s not a matter of us exploiting any obvious weaknesses, we just have to play our game as well as we possibly can and back that it’s going to be enough.”
The Cats beat the Bombers by 28 factors on the MCG in spherical seven.
Chris, like his twin, was not eager to debate the siblings teaching in opposition to one another once more – however he understands the curiosity.
“Honestly, there’s not excitement,” he stated.
“But I’ve learned over the years – and we had to learn this pretty quickly as kids … we got to the stage pretty quickly where it never really bothered us too much.
“It took me some time to maneuver previous the truth that it did not trouble me, to grasp it’s a novelty for different individuals.
“You get asked all the time, ‘What’s it like to be a twin?’. My brother always says, ‘What’s it like not to be?’.”
Geelong have been capable of relaxation Zach Tuohy and Esava Ratugolea this week, with the reigning premiers conserving one eye on the finals.
Small ahead Gryan Miers will play his a hundredth recreation and has additionally signed a brand new contract with the membership.
“I probably shouldn’t pause for too long on the 100th game, because I get the sense it’s a milestone along the way that will be thought about less when he passes 150, 200, 250 – he’s that good,” Scott stated.
In extra good news for the Cats, they’ve reached 80,000 members.
“I can still vividly remember ‘little Geelong has 40,000 members – what an amazing achievement that is, with a capacity of 20-odd thousand at the ground’,” Scott stated.
“We are quite rightly as a club proud of being a national brand.”
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