STEVEN King has deemed his side’s 49-point loss to GWS as “frustrating”, with the Dees unable to capitalise on their inside 50 opportunities.

Melbourne had one more scoring shot than the Giants, recorded 16 more inside 50s but lost by 49 points after kicking 9.16.

"Bit frustrating. Their quality of opportunities, they took them, and we were really clunky and inefficient in our forward half," King said.

"On the back of that, it probably put us in some compromising positions, defensively, which fuelled their efficiency, I thought.

"I haven't seen us move the ball that poorly this year, with just some blatant clangers which really hurt us. In saying that, there's positives there, it gives us some things to really focus on when we come back and train next week and just keep refining our game in the front half.

"It's a unique ground here, and it makes it equally harder when you turn over the ball as frequently as we did. That's the game, I think.

"It was a five-point margin - expected score - at three-quarter time, and unfortunately, credit to them, they just held onto the ball and took some juice off it late."

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