MELBOURNE coach Dean Bailey has admitted his team still has a lot of areas to improve if they want to crack the season 2008 duck.

Bailey kept his team behind closed doors for 40 minutes after Sunday's 52-point loss to Brisbane to lay down the law after the uninspiring performance.

The Demons have now lost the first six matches of the season and continued to make skill errors at the Gabba.

Brisbane led by 11 points at quarter-time, 41 at the half and 56 at the final change before the Dees showed some final quarter ticker to boot five goals to four and salvage some pride.

Bailey said Melbourne's problems were obvious and they would need to be rectified at training.

''It's all about skill execution and how it's costing games,'' he said.

''We turned the ball over and they made us pay.

''Our skill level and handball and decision making was pretty ordinary for large parts of the game and they kicked lots of goals from our turnovers.''

Bailey said his extended team talk after the final siren focussed on how the Demons needed to not only decrease its turnovers, but speed up its movement of the ball.

Far too often on Sunday Melbourne was hesitant in the defensive 50m zone which led to turnovers and goals.

One sequence during the second quarter saw Brisbane kick four successive behinds after Melbourne failed to clear its zone on any occasion.

''When you turn the ball over and it goes straight to the opposition team, whoever they are, they're going to counter attack against you without any pressure at all,'' Bailey said.

''So it's the degree of the turnover and unfortunately we're coughing up easy turnovers and they're scoring from it and that's going to hurt you.

''When you have the football in an unpressured situation we need to transfer the ball quicker than we have, we went sideways at times, then we picked out a Brisbane player.

''I'm not sure how many times we kicked the ball from our back 50 and actually found a Brisbane player we weren't trying to kick the ball to. That was disappointing.''

Bailey said the team was working hard on improving its execution by simulating game situations at training.

''We need to spend more time on it, we're spending a lot of time at it, we've shown small signs, but small signs don't win you games, we need to do it longer and better.''

The Melbourne coach said he and the club was in good spirits, highlighted by probably its best training session of the year on Thursday night.

However, transferring the confidence from training to game conditions was the next challenge.

''We encourage the players to take the game on, we certainly don't try and limit them, I don't think that's the best way to try and encourage players,'' he said.

''I honestly think it's a great challenge. We know what we're doing wrong, it is skill, taking the first option and playing instinctive footy.

''We haven't won a game so there's going to be enormous pressure on us as a club and me as a coach.

''I enjoy what I do, I enjoy the job, I enjoy coaching a great club and I'm going to enjoy the improvement.''