'No knee-jerk reaction': Bombers coach on grim opening

Essendon coach Brad Scott will keep the faith in his beleaguered players amid a grim start to the season.

The Bombers have crashed to consecutive heavy losses, taking their win-less streak to 15 games.

But Scott has ruled out mass changes for Saturday night's clash against fellow strugglers North Melbourne.

"I have never been a big believer in making statements at selection," Scott told reporters on Thursday.

"You challenge players to respond - and they either do or they don't.

"I don't make knee-jerk reactions.

"Players know they've got to give the effort that's required; I'm pretty keen to give those players the opportunity to respond."

The Bombers lost to Hawthorn by 62 points and then by 63 to Port Adelaide last Sunday.

"We continue to work on the things that we worked on in the pre-season, that we're not executing," Scott said.

"There's nothing new in terms of what we're working on; we have just got to double down on the execution.

"I'm very optimistic we'll look very different to what we produced in the first two weeks.

"But we've just got to understand what we're doing: we've got a very clear strategy and there's short-term risk to that."

Scott pointed to Essendon turning over 39 players in the past three years as a factor in the current malaise.

"It's going to look a bit disjointed," he said."

But he said the development and teaching aspect was what appealed to him about coaching.

"I'm a bit sadistic like this, but this is what I love doing - I love developing, I love teaching," he said.

"Is it frustrating in the short term? Yes, it is.

"But it's also unfair on our entire group to expect them to nail everything.

"So while it's frustrating, demoralising, it's really hard for our fans, there's a lot of noise and pressure on the club which you can't spend any time thinking about - you've got to think about what we do about it."