"DO WHAT you want to do, be what you want to be, yeah," sang iconic Australian band Masters Apprentices in the early seventies.

There was no singing from Geelong coach Mark Thompson on Friday night, but his team emerged the masters as it rolled a beleaguered Melbourne at the MCG – winning 24.13 (157) to 5.11 (41).

After the match, Thompson stressed it was irrelevant who his side played because it had a game plan to implement.

"I think that's the plan – we sort of wanted to play a style of footy that the opposition, no matter who we're playing, or the score, we just want to play a brand of footy and just stick to it," he said after the match.

"It's so encouraging and pleasing to see that result tonight, and that's what they did.

"I thought our boys were just absolutely fantastic.

"[We were] just playing footy the way we want to play it. I know that Melbourne aren't the best side in the competition, we knew where they were, but it was just so important for us just to stay on task, and we did that.

"I am very pleased, very proud," he added. "I love watching this group of boys play.

"Some people might have turned the TV off tonight, but if I was coming to a game of football, I wouldn't leave, watching this team play the way they played tonight.

"It's just outstanding the way they played."

With just three qualifying matches remaining before the finals, Thompson stressed the need to maintain consistent football heading into September.

"We've got Sydney next week [and then North Melbourne], and they're fourth [and] fifth positions," he noted.

"So they're two really good games, but that's important – this is the business end of the season, and you just want to be in really consistent form with your decision-making and how you play.

"And that's one of the real goals of the last two weeks and it is again this week, against Sydney, that we play that way."