MATCH COVERAGE: Geelong steals victory from jaws of defeat
A Joel Selwood goal with just over a minute left saw Geelong to a five-point victory at Etihad Stadium on Friday night.
“Good players in big moments hang in there and Selwood’s finish was kind of what we’ve come to expect from him in the end," Scott said.
“But that doesn’t take away from the fact that I thought we were pretty fortunate. You don’t see the ball in the centre bounce straight to your ruckman, then get a free kick and the advantage is paid to a guy who’s a meter out (from goal) too often. And there were a few things like that that went our way tonight.
“When we take a step back over the next couple of days and review it I think there’ll be a bit to be positive about, but it’s clear we’re behind the good teams in the competition at the moment so we’ve got some work to do.”
"It was a win we were fortunate to get, I think," he said.
Scott conceded a series of contentious umpiring call went in favour of the Cats, including when a wayward centre bounce that led to a crucial Geelong goal late in the second term was not called back and retaken.
But he also said Tom Hawkins may have been unfairly denied a proper shot on goal in the fourth quarter when the umpire called play on despite the forward being midway through his approach.
“We did take the time just to ask before I came in to the press conference but we haven’t got an answer yet so I genuinely don’t know whether that decision was right or not," Scott said.
“I hadn’t seen it before — I just assumed that the man on the mark had gone back a long way and came charging in.
“If it was wrong then it only offsets the centre bounce one where we got the goal.
"I'd like to think that we’re strong enough as an organisation to say the same thing, or we would say the same thing, if the result didn’t go our way."
Scott said if Geelong should have put the game to bed in the third quarter, which indicated the Cats have work to do to match the form of the likes of Sydney and Port Adelaide.
Geelong kicked the first goal of the second half for a 23-point break, but the Blues rallied impressively.
"We played well enough to get ourselves in a position where we should have had control of the game and then looked like we lost it there."