The Demons aren\u2019t basking in the glory of their win over the reigning premiers as they strive to ensure beating Brisbane isn\u2019t wasted with a poor performance against cellar dwellers Richmond on Friday night at the MCG.<\/p>\n
Consistency remains the goal for the Demons, whose two-point victory over the Lions on Sunday came a week after a shock loss to struggling Essendon.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s good to bounce back and respond after a poor week the week before, but certainly it was good reward for the boys\u2019 application to get back to process,\u201d Melbourne coach Steven King said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo execute against the best, it\u2019s a nice little reward and reminder of what\u2019s possible for us … (but) you can\u2019t hold on to it for too long. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou spend that half-an-hour after a game, and then you move on quickly, especially on a five-day break.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re still searching for what consistency looks like, game-to-game, within game, within quarter, so it\u2019s not who we play, it\u2019s about us evolving and improving every week.\u201d<\/p>\n
King was adamant that complacency had not been a factor in his team\u2019s loss to the Bombers, which came a week after the Demons had beaten the Gold Coast Suns.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were more factors than that (against Essendon), and it was probably me, even during the game, not staying process driven,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re still evolving as a group. For me, wins and losses, that\u2019s a by-product, but we\u2019re still chasing and evolving and refining what our game looks like.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re certainly not our finished product. There are parts of our game that look OK, there are other parts that we need to keep working on, which as a coaching group and as a playing group we\u2019re trying to get after each week.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Demons have perhaps defied expectations by winning four of their six games this season.<\/p>\n
\u201cFour (wins) and two (losses) is an outcome of what we\u2019ve produced, but I know over summer, people were saying we\u2019re going to be zip and six,\u201d King said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t see that from the way we\u2019re training, the way we prepared this group and their output, so I don\u2019t go into any game thinking anything\u2019s going to happen apart from the process and how we play.\u201d<\/p>\n
King said he was still unsure about the circumstances of Harrison Petty\u2019s potential concussion in the Demons\u2019 weekend win.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re still not really sure exactly what\u2019s happened,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause of his history, we\u2019ve put him in (concussion) protocols at the moment, because that\u2019s the most obvious, but we\u2019re still not 100 per cent sure that\u2019s the case.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s still a range of things it could be.\u201d<\/p>\n