RODNEY Eade had his players behind closeddoors long after the final siren sounded on the Bulldogs’ 10-point defeat atthe hands of Carltonas he tried to hammer home his thoughts on the performance.

Daniel Giansiracusa says Eade urged hischarges to take serious stock of their situation and the way they go abouttheir football after the Blues ran riot in the third quarter, blowing the gameopen with eight goals to the Dogs’ two.

“We’ve just got to look at ourselves asindividuals, I think, and that was what that was about,” Giansiracusa said ofEade’s post-match address. “We’ve got to assess ourselves as individuals andwhere we’re at as a team.

“I just think that we’ve got too many guyswho are up and down – myself included – and we’ve got to look at that. You dothat tonight, but you’ve got to wake up tomorrow and get your head right. We’lltrain pretty hard during the week, I’m sure.”

Giansiracusa earned praise from the coach athis post-match media conference, but he wasn’t happy with his performancedespite kicking two goals and curbing the influence of Blues’ danger man Heath Scotland.

“My year’s been up and down. I had a run-withrole today and I’m one of the ones who has to get consistency into my game,” hesaid.

“We’ve probably only had four or five guysthis year that have been playing consistent footy and the rest have been up anddown and that shows with where we are. We’re five-and-five.”

The sketchy display came a week after theDogs failed to trouble the Swans in Canberraand Giansiracusa said the team had set itself to make things right against theBlues.

“Last week was disappointing, obviously Sydney’s a quality side,but we just didn’t give a yelp and today, in patches, we showed some glimpses,but just didn’t do it consistently and that’s probably been what’s happened forthe year,” he said.

The end result seemed unlikely when AdamCooney put his side 22 points up early in the third quarter with one more goalsurely signaling a Bulldog onslaught.

“Maybe that’s what we thought,”Giansiracusa mused. “They’ve been in pretty much every game that they’ve playedand they got their game up and going, but I think we probably relaxed a bitmentally and you just can’t do that in this day and age of footy; thecompetition’s too close. They got on a roll and we couldn’t stop it.

“We came back in the last quarter andlooked all right, but you’ve got to be up all the time, you can’t be having upsand downs against any side.”

The Bulldogs play the Lions in Brisbane next round and Giansiracusa felt the interstatetrip had come at a good time, saying it would be good for the players to spendsome time together outside Melbourne.