Adam Simpson is offering up no excuses for West Coast’s flat round two effort and is backing his players to turn their performance around against Brisbane.

The Eagles coach highlighted low GPS tracking data as an indication his side simply didn’t work hard enough in the 44-point defeat to the Suns.

“Looking at our GPS data we ran harder in the intraclub the week before. I think it’s there still in our players. For whatever reason they didn’t perform on the weekend,” Simpson told Channel Seven.

“I thought Gold Coast were really good the way they competed and really attacked the contest, it was pretty impressive. We couldn’t match it.

“We’ve got a week to turn it around.”

Frustrations boiled over at times during the Gold Coast defeat with some uncharacteristic free kicks given away and an inability to adapt to the slippery conditions proving costly.

Simpson wasn’t sure if the players were unsettled after relocating to Royal Pines Resort last week but with three more games in Queensland he said the Eagles had to adjust to their temporary new home. 

"We thought we’d come over nice and early to get ourselves nice and settled and get used to the conditions, but clearly that didn’t work on the weekend,” he said.

“It’s been a week now. That was considered an away game (against Gold Coast) for us but now we’ve got to really consider these as home games because we’ve been here long enough to establish some consistency with routine and how we review games and training facilities.

“All that is pretty familiar now. No excuses before and no excuses this week.”

The Eagles will sweat on the outcome after challenging star defender Jeremy McGovern’s striking charge on Tuesday night and how players pull up from their first game in nearly three months before considering selection changes.

“I don’t react on the result in terms of making changes,” Simpson said.

“It’s more the individual form and are we playing to our system, are we playing our role? We’ll look at that.

“We had a pretty good review and see how the guys pull up the next 24 hours before making decisions.”