AFTER suffering an 89-point drubbing from Richmond in the Grand Final, Greater Western Sydney co-captain Phil Davis declared: "We will be back."

If League history is any gauge, we wouldn't count on it.

Fourteen teams have been beaten by at least 60 points in Grand Finals but only five have bounced back to make the top four the next year, including four Grand Finalists for two premierships.

Injured Giant Stephen Coniglio consoles a tearful Brent Daniels after the Grand Final.

Six of these 14 teams didn't even make the finals the next year.

The most recent rebound premier was Hawthorn, which was demolished by 78 points by Essendon in 1985 but hit back hard to belt Carlton by 42 points in 1986.

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Since then, 10-goal-plus hidings have been dished out to six teams but just one has recovered to make the next Grand Final.

That was 24 years ago when Geelong rallied after an 80-point shellacking from West Coast to qualify for the 1995 decider. But that didn't end well either, with the Cats receiving another thumping to the tune of 61 points from Carlton.

The biggest fall from grace was that of Port Adelaide after their record 119-point humiliation at the hands of Geelong in 2007. The Power then plummeted to 13th, missing the finals for five successive seasons.

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Kane Cornes, who was among those shell-shocked Port players, believes the 2007 defeat "ripped the club apart for a good six years".

"We swept it under the carpet and we didn't address it. No one was held accountable for the performance," Cornes told Channel Nine on Sunday.

"My advice to them would be: analyse, debrief and have a look at this game like you would any other loss throughout the season.

"Get everyone accountable and look at what went wrong, right from the players down to the coach. Why weren't they able to execute? Why didn't the gameplan work? Why did they freeze and why were some players unable to perform?"

Kane Cornes said the Power's heavy loss to Geelong in 2007 took a heavy toll on the club.

More recently, Sydney was highly fancied to beat Hawthorn in the 2014 Grand Final, only to be pulverised by 63 points as the Hawks claimed the second leg of their threepeat. No other Grand Final favourite has been beaten so badly.

The next year the Swans entered the finals in fourth spot before superstar Lance Franklin took a mental health break and they were bundled out in straight sets.

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The Giants' task becomes even more challenging when we consider that the past 10 teams to have lost Grand Finals by at least 40 points haven't won a single final between them the next season.

In fact, half of these teams didn't even come close to making the finals – two of them finished 11th, one was 12th, and two plunged to 13th.

The most recent club to win a final after losing a Grand Final by 40-plus was the aforementioned Geelong back in 1995.

Toby Greene feels the agony of the Giants' crushing Grand Final defeat.