FREMANTLE football manager Chris Bond says his club will not abandon its aggressive youth policy, despite Saturday night's record-breaking 117-point loss to Adelaide.

Fremantle's 1.7 (13) was the lowest AFL/VFL score since Richmond's 0.8 (8) in 1961 and the 117-point margin equalled Fremantle's greatest losing margin.

The scale of the defeat prompted Bond to speak out on Monday, and the football boss labelled the loss – that has sent Fremantle to the bottom of the ladder – disappointing, unacceptable and horrendous.

Bond stressed the club and players didn't want to make any excuses for the humiliating defeat, and they would hold themselves accountable.

However, he encouraged supporters to see the value in Fremantle staying the course with a youth policy that has this year been sent into overdrive.

"The processes we put in place at the start of the year... are going to make us a better team," Bond said from Fremantle on Monday.

"We presented a model to the club in May 2008 and we'll follow that through.

"We went to the draft last year, we'll go to the draft this year as well and we'll base [the] development of our club on developing and fast-tracking our younger players.

"We need to add depth to our list and we need to make sure we continue to do that and we'll continue to do that this year [through the draft]."

Seven seasoned Fremantle players retired at the end of last season, while vice captain Josh Carr returned to Port Adelaide and developing ruckman Robert Warnock requested a trade to Carlton.

There was a turnover on the club's rookie list and 14 fresh faces arrived courtesy of the drafts.

Bond said a horrific run with injury had forced coach Mark Harvey to play nine of those 14 players, and a 10th debutant in Luke Pratt.

"There's an unhealthy balance of first-year players in [our] team, but we also look at that and say, 'That's a chance for us to play young players'," Bond said.

"We'll keep playing them, we'll keep playing them on the ground, and we'll keep playing them in positions that we think will develop them. 

"The players are gutted and so they should be, (but) they understand, and Harves and the coaching group have explained it really well, where we need to get to and what we need to do."