{"id":24871,"date":"2026-06-04T18:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T18:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/24871\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T18:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T18:40:08","slug":"cats-coach-fires-back-at-adelaide-oval-nuffies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/24871\/","title":{"rendered":"Cats coach fires back at Adelaide Oval ’nuffies’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Geelong’s Chris Scott has again expressed frustration at the need for AFL coaches to walk through the Adelaide Oval crowd after his latest run-in with “nuffies” in the grandstand.<\/p>\n

Scott took exception to words directed at him as he made his way down to the three-quarter time huddle in the Cats’ nail-biting loss to Adelaide on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

“This is one of the best stadiums in the world,” Cats coach Scott said after his side’s 11.9 (75) to 10.14 (74) defeat.<\/p>\n

\"Chris<\/p>\n

Geelong coach Chris Scott has had previous issues with the crowd at Adelaide Oval. (Darren England\/AAP PHOTOS)<\/p>\n

“I love it, but no, it’s an oversight that coaches should have to walk through the crowd.<\/p>\n

“I don’t want to do it at any ground.”<\/p>\n

Clearly unhappy with what was said to him, Scott glared in a specific direction as he walked back through the crowd to get to the box for the last quarter.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t have any words with any fans. I spoke to security,” Scott said.<\/p>\n

“Of course they do (have words with me). They’re nuffies, but that’s OK.”<\/p>\n

It is not the first time Scott has aired his feelings about Adelaide Oval or taken exception to crowd comments at the ground.<\/p>\n

In 2021, he was tripped and said it was “ridiculous” that coaches had to walk through the crowd to get to the field.<\/p>\n

The latest incident came as Geelong were left ruing missed opportunities in a narrow defeat to Adelaide.<\/p>\n

\"Patrick<\/p>\n

Cats’ outstanding Patrick Dangerfield is tackled by Jordan Dawson and Rory Laird of the Crows. (Matt Turner\/AAP PHOTOS)<\/p>\n

A second loss in as many weeks means the Cats slip to 8-5 ahead of a crunch clash with Gold Coast, with their place in the top four under threat.<\/p>\n

Geelong dominated the Crows at centre clearances, controlled territory early and won the contested possession battle, but were wasteful in front of goal.<\/p>\n

“We feel like the game was there for us to win and we didn’t quite grab it,” Scott said.<\/p>\n

“But that is, to an extent, the competition we’re in.”<\/p>\n

Scott dismissed concerns over Jeremy Cameron’s sore hand after the star spearhead went goalless from just seven disposals.<\/p>\n

He also praised Patrick Dangerfield after a “slow build” into the season resulted in the veteran proving critics wrong with an outstanding performance.<\/p>\n

Unleashed in the midfield, Dangerfield dominated early and finished with 30 disposals, seven clearances and a goal.<\/p>\n

Scott said Dangerfield had effectively missed 10 weeks of training this year but had gradually rebuilt his fitness.<\/p>\n

“He definitely showed that he’s still got it,” Scott said.<\/p>\n

“We fall into the trap as well – you sort of get seduced by the magnet – but there’s under-prepared Patrick and there’s more what we saw tonight.<\/p>\n

“It’s a bit like life. You should treat things as they are, not as you wish them to be.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Geelong’s Chris Scott has again expressed frustration at the need for AFL coaches to walk through the Adelaide…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[395,12191,9204,22939,1416,22936],"class_list":["post-24871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-adelaide","tag-adelaide","tag-adelaide-oval","tag-cats","tag-chris-scott","tag-geelong","tag-patrick-dangerfield"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}