Harry Taylor opens up on after-the-siren miss as Chris Scott reveals he couldn’t watch kick
HEARTBROKEN Geelong forward Harry Taylor has spoken about his after-the-siren miss as Geelong coach Chris Scott admitted he couldn’t watch the game-deciding shot.
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CHRIS SCOTT admitted he couldn’t watch Harry Taylor’s game-deciding after-the-siren shot.
The Geelong coach said he was disappointed to lose “that way” after Taylor’s high-pressure set shot from 40m was sliced badly to the left, giving a two-point loss to the Western Bulldogs.
Scott refused to watch the returning big man’s shot, which came after he marked Mitch Duncan’s long kick forward.
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“I didn’t watch it. Honestly,” Scott said.
“We’ve been in enough situations like that, I can’t watch. I just wait for the crowd reaction.”
Scott said he had spoken to Taylor, who played forward in his first AFL appearance since Round 9.
“I had a quick chat to him, but my position on these things generally is that you want to be the man in the arena,” he said.
“He was good enough to get the shot and he didn’t take it this time so he’d be bitterly disappointed. But he was good enough to get it and he wanted the shot.
“They don’t always go your way. It stings, don’t get me wrong, but it doesn’t always go your way so there’s no point being too bitter.”
Taylor spoke after the match admitting he didn’t get he set shot routine right in the moment.
“I’ve dreamt about that. I’ve always wanted to have a shot after the siren,” he told Channel 7.
“You go to sleep at nights, playing that moment out and unfortunately, just didn’t execute right. Didn’t have a lot of momentum in my kick and never really looked like it was going to go through.
“Bitterly disappointed for my teammates.”
The Cats trailed by 24 points early in the second half, but in an end-to-end game full of momentum swings, the Cats were back in front by the last change but never asserted authority.
“It was disappointing. We tend to wait on the post mortems until we’ve got clearer information but obviously really disappointing to lose that way but a positive we gave ourselves a chance to win with the last kick of the night,” Scott said.
“It’s probably the second game of the row where we haven’t been as good in the fundamental parts of the game as the opposition.
“It’s rare for us to give up as a big a score as we did and give up as many goals as we did from close range, too.”
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