'Complacent' Cats grilled after Pies' avalanche

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Port Adelaide large Kane Cornes has enactment Geelong connected notice, suggesting the reigning premiers' "complacent" cognition led to its 22-point nonaccomplishment to Collingwood

Speaking connected Nine's AFL Sunday Footy Show, Cornes highlighted respective instances which helium claimed demonstrated a deficiency of antiaircraft unit amongst the Cats group.

"I'm not disquieted astir Geelong but immoderate absorbing things that I saw arsenic they ran retired connected Friday night," helium said arsenic footage of the players smiling arsenic they ran nether the banner played.

"They're truly blessed with themselves here.

"You're astir to play a crippled of footy.

"Now, successful isolation, I wouldn't beryllium disquieted astir that, but erstwhile I look astatine the imaginativeness and what I saw, I go, 'Hang on, possibly they are conscionable a small spot complacent'.

Cornes then drew attraction to a infinitesimal successful the 4th fourth erstwhile caller Geelong skipper Patrick Dangerfield lined up connected Collingwood enlistee Tom Mitchell astatine a stoppage.

With the Cats trailing by a extremity aboriginal successful the the 4th quarter, Cornes described the juncture arsenic "critical" arsenic Dangerfield gave his hostile region to score.

"Dangerfield - shot watching," helium said.

"Are you truly defending? Would you person done that successful the expansive final, Patrick Dangerfield? Have you go conscionable a small spot complacent?

"That was mediocre defending. There's 1 instance."

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Cornes past addressed different illustration of substandard defending by midfielder Max Holmes successful the 3rd term.

"In the abstraction of 5 seconds, Homes' fixed the astir unsafe subordinate on the crushed 20m [to people wrong 50m and score].

"Did he truly privation to support oregon was helium much disquieted astir getting a footwear himself?"

The two-time All-Australian besides called retired Mark O'Connor's attempt to contradict Beau McCreery with the crippled connected the line.

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"Are you truly defending similar your beingness depends connected it? Are you truly moving to the autumn of the ball?

Geelong laid conscionable 44 tackles successful its opening brushwood compared to its mean of 58 per crippled successful 2022.

"Just a fewer signs that they were beauteous blessed with themselves, the Cats," Cornes said.

"It says, 'OK, if you're not afloat on, you're going to get recovered retired successful this game."

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