Having gathered 31 possessions in the10-point loss to Essendon, the 27-year-old said the Blues had to somehowsalvage something from the year with a victory in at least one of the remainingtwo rounds.
Carlton faces the Kangaroos next week andends the year with a MCG clash against Melbourne.
“It’s been nine weeks since we’ve had a winand it’s been a long year,” he said.
“Again we’re in this same position we werein last year and its important for morale that we get a win - I think we’replaying better football and getting closer.
“Next week we’ve got the Kangaroos and theweek after Melbourne in two games where we’ll give ourselves a chance to win.
“We just have to maintain our style of playfor four quarters.”
Scotland dismissed the suggestion the sidestruggled to stick to caretaker coach Brett Ratten’s new game plan when theheat went on.
Instead he blamed youth and inexperience.
“We’ve trained it (game plan) for fourweeks, we still know what the basics are and we just got away from it,” hesaid.
“Some blokes probably individualised andplayed away from the game plan and it showed that if guys do that then we arenot going to win games.”
An even more bitter pill to swallow fromthe loss to Essendon, the Blues ninth in a row, was the fact a win would haveended the Bombers belated finals run.
“It wrecks you,” Scotland said.
“We had the game under control and we wereplaying the better football. It’s just shattering to lose in the end.
“We knew we could have finished theirseason and it’s always a big game against Essendon but unfortunately we got awayfrom our game plan and tactics in the second half and ended up losing thegame.”
