Key defender Tom McDonald admits the Demons “don’t stand for much”.

And Melbourne coach Paul Roos was so angry after Sunday's 64-point loss to fellow bottom-three side Greater Western Sydney he didn't address the players after the game.

After slowly taking positive strides for the first three-quarters of the season, Melbourne is suddenly back in the dark days.

In the aftermath of Sunday's horrific loss, Jones said Roos knew the danger of getting too heated and delivering sprays to players that cut too deeply.

Jones said the shell-shocked players were so gutted after the loss that they hardly even talked among themselves.

"What do you say?," Jones said on Monday.

"We come over back to AAMI Park and the players don't really say much. It's a time when you reflect."

Jones thought the 17th-placed Demons - with a 4-16 win-loss record, after claiming only two victories in 2013 - had turned a corner before the shock loss to the Giants.

He said it was shattering to be booed off the field by the club’s long-suffering supporters.

"It was an embarrassing performance from us," he said.

"We are taking some steps forward but yesterday was a significant step back.

"To walk off the ground with the reception we got, the boys are pretty shattered.

"That's the main thing that hit home, really letting a lot of our supporters down."

Jones said the players hadn't heard from their coach.

"I still haven't seen him yet. He has probably done that a couple of times this year," Jones said.

"It's probably a really measured approach by Roosy just to let it cool off.

"He's a pretty competitive character and yesterday's result really would have burnt him."

Roos told his post-match media conference he thought some players looked like they'd already "put the cue in the rack" for the season.

"I saw that comment by Roosy. It's probably warranted with the performance," Jones said.

The Demons face West Coast in Perth and North Melbourne at Etihad Stadium in the last two rounds.

"We have to respond," Jones said.

The onballer made his debut in 2006, which is the last year the Demons made the finals.

He says a series of poor seasons have dented confidence levels.

"The group's probably really suffering from that," he said.

"How you manipulate players to build back belief, I don't really know how to do that."

Defender McDonald has played in 47 losses with Melbourne but "couldn't picture a worst feeling coming off a game" than that which lurched in the pit of his stomach at the MCG on Sunday.

"To finish the way we have, it has undone all the good work we did at the start of the season," McDonald said of the club's eighth loss in a row.

"If it keeps going this way, it just means we will start from further back than we did last pre-season.

"I thought earlier in the year we really were standing for something and we were starting to become united as a group.

"It hasn't lived on in the second half of the season. At the moment we don't stand for much, really."