Unlikely hero's 'Carey-like' final stuns critics

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By Chris De Silva and Emily Patterson

There were a batch of heroic performances during the Cats' six-point qualifying last triumph implicit the Magpies, but nary greater than Gary Rohan's showing.

With plentifulness of chatter astir his mediocre finals record starring into the match, the seasoned guardant stood up and was counted erstwhile it mattered most, taking a stunning contested people successful the last minutes.

The 31-year-old took the match-winning drawback astatine half-forward conscionable seconds aft Jordan De Goey enactment the Pies backmost successful front. And keeping his composure, Rohan went backmost and drilled the 50m acceptable shot.

Speaking aft the heart-stopping clash, the Fox Footy pundits were afloat of praise for Rohan, with Melbourne large Gary Lyon adjacent describing the lucifer arsenic "one of the top games of footy" he's ever seen.

"He was nether unit during the week and Chris Scott I thought arsenic a manager supporting his subordinate handled it perfectly perfectly. He played them connected a break," St Kilda large Nick Riewoldt said.

Scott rubbishes Rohan finals criticism

"The show from Gary Rohan contiguous - it wasn't conscionable that past moment, it was a big, implicit crippled from a tiny guardant successful a guardant enactment that conscionable didn't relation extracurricular of Jeremy Cameron keeping them successful it early.

"So to spell out, to instrumentality the clunk. It was a big, hard, beardown people ... It was unbelievable."

"It looked similar Wayne Carey," Lions fable Jonathan Brown added.

Stars speech singular goals

Rohan finished with 3 goals, 14 disposals and the cardinal extremity assistance connected the Holmes game-winner.

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