Greater Western Sydney were guilty of being far too handball-happy in their 120-point loss to Collingwood on Saturday, and coach Kevin Sheedy says he won’t stand for it.

Sheedy believed the 26.18 (174) to 7.12 (54) scoreboard reflected his charges’ overuse of the ball rather than a chasm of class between GWS and the Magpies.

The Giants finished with just two more kicks than handballs, often second-guessing themselves compared to Collingwood, who opted to kick 49 more times than handball.

Sheedy vowed to crackdown on the issue.

“Instead of being beaten by whatever it was, we probably could have been beaten by maybe 40 points or something like that,” the four-time premiership coach said.

“We probably over-used the ball, you wouldn’t have to be Einstein to figure that out.

“In the end I took the players off, told everybody in the sports science department to `forget about rotations. I’m going to coach these guys through this overuse of handball’.

“So we did that in the last quarter and I said (to the players) ‘look if you go back on and actually handball again, and overuse handball, you won’t play next week. Simple as that’.

“So we’ll start to get some serious discipline into that.”

Despite the one-sided nature of the contest, Sheedy said there were some positives for his team.

“That’s our best performance against a top-four side in the last five weeks we’ve played.

“We just don’t get the actual score on the board for the amount of work that we do.

“We’re just not good enough to do that at the moment.”