Three-time AFL premiership forward Cameron Mooney says Geelong players must start demanding better from each other if they're to end a slump.
The Cats won their opening five games of the season but have crashed to fifth on the ladder because of a three-match losing streak.
Mooney, who won two flags and played 210 games for the Cats, is among many pundits decidedly unimpressed with his former side's recent form.
"Their tackling numbers are horrendous and their pressure-act numbers are diabolical at the minute," Mooney told radio station SEN.
"Their effort to defend, their effort to put pressure on (isn't good enough).
"Is this playing group actually looking at each other and demanding from each other?
"If I was (captain) Joel Selwood I'd be getting coaches out of the meeting (while reviewing games) and doing it players to players, and start nailing blokes.
"When your peers and teammates are pulling each other up on these things, that is when it really hits home."
The Cats face reigning premiers Western Bulldogs on Friday night, when they will play in Geelong for the first time this season.
The occasion will double as the official unveiling of the $90-million redevelopment of Simonds Stadium.
"The players now need to stand up and say 'we've been given this incredible facility, so we need to deliver back to our club and supporters'," Mooney said.
"Because the last three weeks have just not been good enough."
The Bulldogs haven't beaten Geelong since 2009 and haven't won in Geelong since 2003.
For the second year running, the Dogs will stay the night before the game on the Bellarine Peninsula to avoid the traffic snarls of driving to Geelong in peak hour.
"In the end you just try to almost replicate an interstate trip," Bulldogs coach Luke Beveridge said.
"It just makes sense.
"We don't all leave from the Whitten Oval, as some of our players live in the east, so combined with the fact it's peak hour you pretty much have to leave really early in the day.
"We don't want to be hanging around Geelong for four or five hours before we play."
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