His all-conquering team had just won by 99 points - its 21st win in its past 22 matches - and set a new record for the most number of possessions recorded in an AFL match but still Geelong coach Mark Thompson wasn't happy.

Thompson was surprised when told his reigning premiers had amassed a new record of 462 possessions during Sunday's 22.18 (150) to 6.15 (51) demolition of Essendon but that only confirmed to the Cats' coach what he already suspected - his team was guilty of over-possessing the ball against the outclassed Bombers.

The Cats might have had the ball 107 times more than Essendon but Thompson - ever the perfectionist - believes his team can still get better.

"We are fairly happy with the day's work but that doesn’t mean to say the day was perfect," Thompson said after the game.

"We over-possessed the ball and that is something we can work on."

When told his team had just recorded the most ever possessions in a game of AFL, Thompson replied: "We weren't going for any world records today, it just happened."

In particular Thompson felt his side was too elaborate during the opening quarter when it enjoyed 21 forward entries to just 11 for Essendon yet led by just 20 points at quarter-time.

"We played a bit of circle work there for a period of time," he said.

"We had 20 entries (inside the forward 50 for the first quarter) yet we scored just four goals but by the end of the game I thought we pretty much corrected that."

But on a day when the Cats had 14 individual goalkickers, saw their champion midfield duo of James Bartel and Gary Ablett amass 72 possessions between them and saw Matthew Scarlett keep Essendon spearhead Matthew Lloyd goalless in a game for the first time in three years, Thompson was generally pleased with his side's performance.

"Generally speaking to win by that much, have that many forward entries (65 to 49) and kick that score you would have to be pleased with it," he said.