There are just too many possibilities that blind apologists use to justify a bad loss, but for me none of them are credible when it comes to a derby loss of that magnitude.
Supposedly we fielded a team of professional footballers to play a game of football - Tabs managed one mark, The Spack had a one disposal game (a handball), and Cam Sutcliffe was out third best player on the park (behind Mikey and Fyfe) with 9 disposals and 4 tackles. That isn't a football team, I don't care how big and well equipped your locker room is back in Cockburn, if you can't play football you shouldn't get on the bus.
We should've just waved our white-lace hanky outside the ETAF and got onto more promotional work.