Melbourne coach Craig Bellamy has blasted his team’s effort after they went down to lowly Newcastle 20-6 in Monday night football.

The iconic coach said post-match that his team didn’t deserve to even be in the top eight.

“After tonight we don’t deserve to be in the top four,” Bellamy said.

“We hardly deserve to be in the top eight to be quite honest.

“That is the furthest from our mind what position we are in or what position we might be able to get in.

“I think if we won tonight we would have been in the top four, if that is not enough motivation for players to go out there and really put in, we don’t deserve to be any higher that what we are after that performance tonight.

“You would expect a lot better effort, a lot more of a committed effort from out guys considering the time of the season that it is.”