Cats coach Chris Scott spoke to the media post game.

Chris, is there a bit of relief after that one?

I’m relieved every time we win. I understand the question, because we were playing poorly. Off a month that hasn’t been great, by any stretch. Even then, I think within games we have actually been OK. Today was probably another example of it. Good that we got over the line. The second half was pretty dominant, but the fact is Richmond were on top for a large part of the first half. So that is easy to identify and a little bit harder to find the reasons why and rectify. In some ways I feel a little bit better about the outcome of the game, because it was really fierce early, and we had to fight our way through it and find a way in the second half. Just another reminder that if you go into a game - I don’t think we did this, but I think the fans, if they sort of go in thinking the ladder is going to dictate how this game is going to be played they are going to be continually surprised, because the competition is pretty even. Even the last couple of weeks they have shifted the way they have been playing. We didn’t look too much at the previous couple of weeks, because we knew they were going to shift the way they played. They were really competitive and made it hard for us. I was pleased we were able to get the game back on our terms.

Jack Bowes, was that arguably his best game for the club?

My clink -- blink response would be “Yes”. Toby Conway in the ruck, there aren’t many third-year ruckmen in the competition. Toby more than held his own. It is good for our midfielders without Cam Guthrie and Patrick Dangerfield to stand up. I’m not sure how far we got down, felt like about four goals there at one stage. Those guys in the middle needed to find a way to get on top and I thought they did

Tanner Bruhn, you must be happy, it wasn’t probably your biggest stars that were standing up?

Exactly. Again, I’ve referenced Conway again. It would have been nice if Jhye Clark had have been part of that mix as well. We are really confident we have got a good group of players that are good enough to play together for eight or 10 years. These sort of games in a way are better than the ones that you win by 30 points where you had that margin the whole game. We were really challenged and there are a few little tweaks that we made, but it was more just asking for a bit more from those guys around the middle.

What flicked the switch in that third quarter? You were down in the midfield, down in clearances, tackle count was down. How do you tweak it?

Their pressure was really good. I think midway through the second quarter it felt like a little bit of rain came as well. Looked like it was going to be a slippery game. We thought that we actually looked better when we used the ball a little bit more. Cameron going up to the wing, helped our ability to use the wing, helped our ability to use the ball through the middle of the ground. I thought he had a real impact in the second half. So to push forward, looked dangerous as well. Again, it was clear that they were going to change a few things from the way they were playing earlier in the year. At their best when they had even numbers ahead of the ball and can move the ball quickly into that forward line they can be a real threat. We just adjusted a few things to make that harder for them.