West Coast has officially secured the 2025 wooden spoon following their heavy 83-point loss to Melbourne at Marvel Stadium on Saturday.
The Eagles have won one match this season, and could rank as the worst in their history, with tough match-ups against Adelaide, the Western Bulldogs and Sydney to come.
"We're not tough enough, at all, as a football club, as a football team at the moment," he said.
"That's got nothing to do with age; that's something that we just can't accept."
But when probed about the remainder of the year, McQualter said the club must find a way to find the positives in the last three weeks.
"We have to, we have to get something out of it," he said.
"We have to be better than we were today because we have three tough opponents coming up, and we have to challenge our team, our staff, our club that we still need to improve, clearly, and the next three weeks is more opportunity to do that.
"We'll just review this game the same way as we do, we'll get really clear on what we're going after, but we need to close the gap on our best and our worst. That's a big thing we're going to focus on in the next three weeks."
The Eagles secured their second wooden spoon in three seasons, and their third in their history since 1987.
However, they have won at least two matches (2022) in every season in the competition, meaning they could hit an all-time low after 2025.
