Scott’s takedown of Adelaide Oval ‘nuffies’ after one-point loss to Crows; Walker to face MRO heat

Adelaide: Geelong’s Chris Scott has called for coaches not to have to walk through the crowd after quarter breaks after an incident at three-quarter-time of his side’s nail-biting loss to the Crows on Thursday night.

Scott spoke with Adelaide Oval security as he walked out to the Cats’ huddle after fans he later labelled “nuffies” interacted with him with his side trailing by two points.

While Scott said he didn’t say anything to the fans in question, he admitted they had plenty to say to him, adding with a laugh: “Of course … they’re nuffies, but that’s OK”.

When asked in his post-match press conference if he thought it was right that coaches had to navigate their way onto the playing surface, through the crowd, Scott said, “This is one of the best stadiums in the world – I love it – [but] no, it’s an oversight that the coaches should have to walk through the crowd. I don’t want to do it at any ground”.

“I tripped on someone’s leg,” Scott said after a match against the Power, which the Cats won.

“[It was a] strange situation given the meticulous way the SA Government has looked after us over the last 24 hours that we’re still walking in that close proximity where people are brushing past us in the crowd.

“In the most respectful terms possible, when you have a stadium of this quality, renovated, to overlook the fact the coaches have to walk through the crowd is a bit silly.”

Adelaide were left to count the cost of their titanic win on Thursday – 11.9 (75) to 10.14 (74) – which came with three down on the bench.

They were down to a single rotation for part of a carnage-filled last quarter when Callum Ah Chee, Jordon Butts, Toby Murray and debutant Hugo Hall-Kahan all left the field injured.

Ah Chee, who was superb on star Cats defender Tom Stewart, exited the contest after re-aggravating his troublesome right hamstring and was put on ice early in the final term. That marked his fourth hamstring issue for the season already.

Butts came off with an apparent calf injury, before Murray and Hall-Kahan smashed into each other in a sickening, bloody collision.

Hall-Kahan, who this time last week was working in retail before being picked up in Tuesday’s mid-season draft, came back to finish the game in a debut he’ll never forget.

Additionally, Taylor Walker looks set to face the heat of the match review officer.

Walker, who made his way back into the Crows’ senior side through the SANFL, returned at the expense of the suspended Riley Thilthorpe and could face a holiday, himself, after pushing young Cat Connor O’Sullivan into the path of Adelaide skip