THE WESTERN Bulldogs need to address their "application to the game" and answer some hard questions after a shattering loss to Adelaide on Friday night, according to senior defender Dale Morris.

After their sixth loss in eight games, the Bulldogs are searching for answers, with coach Luke Beveridge questioning his team's want and "whether or not it's totally there" after the 59-point defeat at Adelaide Oval.

Morris said the reigning premiers' talent had not disappeared, challenging his teammates to work harder than their opponents to rescue their season after slipping to 7-8.  

"The one thing you can control, and it doesn't take any training or anything, is the intensity and work-rate in a game," Morris told SEN. 

"How even the competition is now, you need to be able to work hard and work harder than the opposition to give yourself a chance.

"That's not a skill, it's a will. We need to just strip it back and get that right.

"The application to the game is the thing that the guys need to look at and we all need to look at."

The Bulldogs flew home on Saturday morning searching for answers after a second-half capitulation that saw them concede 11 goals to the Crows and kick just one themselves at Adelaide Oval.

Morris said hard questions needed to be asked of the players after an "unacceptable" drop-off that led to an "intense and very raw" post-match meeting.

"It's probably the hardest time after the game because everything is so raw, but those sorts of questions need to be asked," he said.

"Even if the guys can't answer it then and there, just for them to be thinking about it and working it out themselves during the week.

"Those meetings are very intense and very raw after the game, and sometimes it's very hard to think clearly because you're still caught in the game and you're still caught in the emotion of it.

"'Bevo' and the coaches have every right to ask the hard questions at the end of a game like that."

The Bulldogs have won 26 of 56 quarters this season and Morris said they were "yet to put a full game together".

The premiership defender still had faith, however, that the formula that delivered the 2016 flag could be replicated.

"Everyone was thinking it'll click soon, but it hasn't, not yet," Morris said.

"(But) anything is possible for this last part of the year.

"It's in this group, I know it's in this group, we've seen it last year.

"There hasn't been much of a change, so it's there."