The fact that it was a derby is doesn't need to come into consideration.
2 goals in a home game? It was the lowest ever score for Fremantle in WA. Even in the Byron Schammer Swamp Monster game in Geelong we managed to kick 3 goals. 2 months ago we kicked 34 points in Adelaide. How do you go worse than that? In the same season?
It's the worst result in the history of the club. You don't fob that off with - we're going gangbusters we just had an off night. But he knows the local media will be talking up the Eagles all week so all he had to do was get through the press conference and he was home free.