A DEFIANT Neil Craig says Saturday's 37-point loss to previously winless Greater Western Sydney only "strengthens his resolve" to continue coaching in the hope of lifting Melbourne out of its current malaise.

The Demons followed up last week's 122-point defeat to North Melbourne by becoming the first side this year to lose to the Giants, surely lengthening the odds of caretaker Craig maintaining his position next season.

Melbourne now sits just one victory ahead of the Giants on the ladder with a worse percentage and is in a fight to avoid the wooden spoon with four games remaining.

But Craig felt Saturday's performance at Skoda Stadium was at least an improvement on last week.

"Last week's loss was a really poor day for the Melbourne footy club because we were inept last week," he said.

"I didn't think we were inept today in terms of our effort.

"In fact if you look at a lot of the game statistics, the contested ball aspect was relatively even, clearances and centre bounces, relatively even inside 50s, so there's nothing there that says 'wow'.

"The one that stood out for us though was their scores from turnovers and our turnovers were really poor.

"I thought we fixed up the effort part of it from last week, but execution was really poor."

Asked if the result hurt his chances of being appointed head coach at season's end, Craig said: "It's the same response. Until the club decides the type of coach they want, there won't be an issue for me."

GWS led at every change, although the Dees had plenty of momentum after kicking four of the last five goals of the third term to trail by just 13 points at three-quarter time.

It was the Giants who finished off strongly, however, slamming through seven goals to Melbourne's three for just the third win in their history and first against Victorian opposition.

Yet Craig insisted he was still well and truly up for the fight of trying to drag the Demons back to respectability.

"That's the reality of it," he said.

"What I do know is it strengthens my resolve to continue to push hard with it.

"The challenge becomes bigger, but in some ways more exciting, to be able to push forward and make this club an outstanding footy club again.

"You don't just win in this game because you want to.

"You actually have to be good enough to win.

"Part of being good enough is to bring competitive effort, which I thought we did today, then you have to be good enough to have a capacity to execute."

Melbourne travels to Metricon Stadium to face Gold Coast next week.