West Coast coach Andrew McQualter says the club is still confident the foundations they’re putting in place will have them “compete quickly” again for premierships.

The Eagles’ 54-point defeat to a rampant Greater Western Sydney was their 10th consecutive defeat in a row and adds to the mounting pressure as they head towards the end of a four-win season.

Before the start of 2022, West Coast had never lost more than eight games in a row. In the past four seasons they’ve lost 10 or more consecutive games on four occasions.

The Eagles last claimed victory against Essendon in round 12 and they only have one more chance to break their losing run when they host premiership fancies Hawthorn at Optus Stadium next Sunday.

McQualter — who has only five wins from 45 games at the helm of the Eagles — stood strong in his stance that the club was headed in the right direction despite growing fan discontent at recent performances.

“We’re in a rush. It’s been a long time now for our fans, it’s been a really long time but what we’re doing right now... we are laying foundations, really strong foundations to not just win a few games but to contend and be able to be a team again, we want to win premierships,” he said.

“There’s a lot of pain for our supporters that they’ve endured and hopefully there’s not too much left. I think you’re seeing that with the WAFL side they’ve gone from whatever wins in the last few years (11 in five seasons), they’ve had 10 this year. So it’s lifting.

“We could’ve won more than four (games) this year. We haven’t. There’s been opportunity for us to win more games but next year we expect to win more and put ourselves in a position to win more games.

“We’re confident that the foundations we’re putting in place will set us up to compete and compete quickly.”

West Coast looked capable of upsetting the Giants for a second time this season when they kicked four of the first five goals to jump out to a 16-point lead midway through the first term.

However, the Giants went on a nine-goal run when Toby Greene kicked a goal seconds from quarter time until the fifth minute of the last to set up the 16.15 (111) to 7.15 (57) triumph.

“My summary of the game was pretty much after quarter one we got outworked, which is a shame because I cannot say that too often this year. I don’t think that’s been a theme for us,” McQualter said.

“We had five front half turnovers in quarter one and we barely had any after quarter time. We couldn’t stop their ball movement, they had 100 marks. I thought out defensive intent just wasn’t at the same level that it’s been.

“Combine that with 2.14 after quarter time, the accuracy was a problem again and what that does, no one tries to miss, we all get that, but it definitely dampens your spirit and we went straight into kicking defence which was deplorable for us today.”