WEST Coast captain Shannon Hurn expects every club to pore over vision from the club’s losses to Sydney and Essendon, searching for the keys to victory.

The Eagles enjoyed a stunning start to the season and entered the mid-season bye with a 10-1 record.

But successive losses to the Swans and Bombers exposed chinks in their armour that the players struggled to counter. Hurn knows those games will be pulled apart by their upcoming opponents and he said it was vital the Eagles were able to adjust to a variety of tactics.

“Every team will be looking at the last two weeks, for sure,” he said.

“That’s what happens. Any time you play reasonable football, teams will say ‘how can we beat these blokes?’ We have to keep learning. Everyone wants to play their own way but we still need to have a Plan B and Plan C.

“I think we’ve worked that out a bit more in the last 18 months and that’s what we’ll continue to have to do. Good opposition make sure you don’t play to your strengths and they ask you different questions. We need to make sure we can answer them.”

Hurn took heart from West Coast’s ability to compete after quarter-time. The Eagles finished the game with 14 more inside 50s than the Bombers but didn’t convert those opportunities into goals.

The captain said the players would learn a lot about remaining composed in the heat of battle.

“We did some unusual things that would normally work 99 times out of 100,” Hurn said.

“We had a couple soccers on the line and some dropped marks. That’s why you need to do the basics well.

“They played well but we had periods where we could have got it back to three or four goals and then it would have been manageable. But we shot ourselves in the foot.

“Sometimes that’s more the internal pressure you put on yourself.”