But the relentless nature of the rout should also inject sorely needed confidence for a team which showed signs of improvement last weekend against Brisbane but still went down by 16 points at the Gabba to leave their record 5-8 heading into this fixture.

Isaac Heeney was back in the team and back in form with five goals,22 disposals and an overall performance which could yet reignite Sydney’s season. Braeden Campbell was piping hot on the wing and his left boot a penetrating force,but it was Errol Gulden who really stood out with 32 disposals and three goals,while the also-returning Logan McDonald and Joel Amartey had four apiece.

Also making his mark was Angus Sheldrick,the young midfielder who has been biding his time in the red and white but shone against the Lions last week. This time the 19-year-old scored a major that blew out the difference to 94 points,before Gulden left five Eagles in his wake to bank his third and put a 100-point lead on the scoreboard.

Gulden set the tone from the off,assisting Chad Warner’s opening major within the first minute and adding his own in the second. Oscar Allen struck next via a set shot,in his 100th goal for West Coast,but that was where it ended for the Eagles,who found themselves on the end of five goals in the opening 13 minutes and an onslaught which did not let up.

Where the visitors struggled for disposals in their forward half,the Swans’ handballs were clean and their contested possession a picture of efficiency,outmuscling their opponents in every key area,albeit under very little pressure.

By half-time the deficit had swollen to 68 points and Simpson,down by the field and visibly strained,hung his head when Amartey landed his second before the major break. Asked his he was the right man to continue coaching the Eagles Simpson simply said:“Yes.”

“Obviously I’m pretty embarrassed,” he said. “We tried lots of things but none of them worked. From start to finish we were on the back foot. We couldn’t gain any type of ascendancy at all and,in the end,we got what we deserved.”

Heeney’s fourth goal – his second in a minute – just before the end of the third term brought the Swans’ score to 164 and set a club record for points scored at three-quarter time (the previous best was 155).

For the Eagles,who lost Jack Williams during second quarter to a rolled ankle and Tom Barrass for almost half the match after a head knock,the match was more of an exercise in survival than a genuine attempt to avoid a fourth loss this season by more than 100 points,never mind a comeback. They are now 1-13.

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