West Coast coach Adam Simpson says he’s looking for the stability between mitigating the injury on the scoreboard and creating their model of soccer.
The Eagles broke a string of three consecutive away losses by 100 factors or extra in a dour 81-point loss to Brisbane.
In a sport of few highlights, West Coast had been in a position to maintain the Lions to simply 9 objectives after quarter-time within the 16.20 (116) to five.5 (35) defeat on the Gabba on Saturday.
Brisbane booted the primary seven objectives of the sport to guide by 45 factors late within the first time period earlier than West Coast managed to arrange higher defensively and attempt to retain possession after they had the ball in hand.
“We wanted to start the same way we attacked the game last week and for the first five or six minutes I thought it was a pretty tightly contested game and then the floodgates opened for 10 to 15 minutes,” Simpson stated.
“We kicked the last two (goals) and from quarter time we made it as hard as we could for them to score.
“You don’t want to change the way you want to move the ball or play the game but there’s stages in this year where we’ve got to adapt and try to mitigate a little bit. I thought our players did it the best they could.”
Simpson stated he didn’t need to be compelled to play like that each week.
“It’s a fine line to pull those levers when you’ve got so many young players,” Simpson stated.
“We’re trying to get the contest right and our effort to put pressure on the game and on the ball and that wasn’t there.
“When you don’t get that you then go rely on your back-off transition and against good sides you can’t get it.
“We managed it pretty well last week with really good pressure and contest method, this week when that was off we found it really hard to get out of the back half and like I said, I thought we mitigated a few things. But we don’t really want to attack every game like that.”
In extra constructive news, vice-captain Jeremy McGovern received by his first sport in 14 weeks after hamstring surgical procedure, ending with 20 disposals and 9 marks earlier than being subbed out at three-quarter time.
The reinforcements could possibly be on their method for his or her conflict in opposition to Richmond at Optus Stadium on Sunday with doubtlessly as much as 9 extra gamers obtainable.
Simpson was assured captain Luke Shuey and veteran Shannon Hurn can be proper to deal with the Tigers after lacking the journey to Brisbane with soreness.
“They were too sore to play, they’ll be right,” he stated.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
