The Eagles have produced a stunning fortnight of football to put themselves back in finals contention, beating the Crows and Magpies in brilliant fashion.
Eagles soar over Pies to boost finals hopes
West Coast had lost three of its previous four matches before beating Adelaide in Adelaide. They've kicked 39 goals and generated 67 scoring shots in two weeks, setting up a mouth-watering do-or-die clash with Essendon on Saturday afternoon at Etihad Stadium.
Hurn said the turnaround in form had been a product of some hard work and attention to detail at training.
"We've been training well and probably training a bit longer, doing the basics a lot better and making smart decisions and it's just worked," the defender said.
"We've got some confidence and you just need to keep going with it."
The Eagles face Essendon, Melbourne and Gold Coast in the last three weeks of the home and away season and although their finals destiny is not entirely in their own hands, Hurn said it was thrilling to know they could still feature in September.
"It's exciting to play well and it's exciting to win," Hurn said.
"We know that we need to keep playing well for the rest of the year just to be a chance, because we need a few things to go our way but it is really exciting."
Hurn, who plays his 150th match for West Coast this week, believes the Eagles' defence is getting stronger the more they play together following the retirement of long-time skipper Darren Glass earlier in the season.
"The past three weeks have been quite pleasing how it's been coming along," he said.
"Down back, it doesn't matter what the positions are, as a team you need to play a lot of footy together and we've probably been fortunate enough to do that.
"So we understand what we want (in terms of) game style and we've been reading the ball quite well."
