Fremantle football operations manager Chris Bond insists coach Mark Harvey has the full backing of the board and has called for calm as the club attempts to manage the fallout following their worst ever AFL defeat.

The Dockers kicked just 1.7 in a "horrendous" 117-point loss to Adelaide at AAMI Stadium on Saturday night, prompting Bond to declare the players would draw a "line in the sand" ahead of this Saturday night's clash with Brisbane at Subiaco Oval.

Fremantle overhauled their list at the end of last year and have fielded 10 debutants this season, seven of whom featured against the Crows.

Bond said the club would persevere with their youth policy and warned Fremantle's long-suffering supporters there could be more pain in store.

"No one wants to be involved in such a horrendous loss like that but in saying that everyone should be understanding," Bond said on Monday.

"With what we did last year, losing 1500 games of experience, that's the model we are taking, we won't change our model and that's the direction we are going in.

"We will go to the draft.

"We won't go with the same amount of numbers as we went last year but we'll definitely go to the draft.

"That's the plan in place, we believe that's the best way for us to achieve sustained success and we won't deviate from that.

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

"We'll base our club on developing and fast-tracking our younger players and developing a game style that's going to be competitive."

Harvey, who has won just 13 of his 44 games in charge, is contracted until the end of 2010 and Bond said the club's board backed their man 100 per cent.

Bond admitted the club was playing an "unhealthy balance" of first-year players but said the coaching staff had little choice with key players such as Matthew Pavlich, Aaron Sandilands, Michael Johnson, Roger Hayden, Ryan Crowley, Rhys Palmer and Des Headland out injured.

The Dockers' total in the 19.16 (130) to 1.7 (13) loss to Adelaide was the fifth lowest score since World War I and the lowest since the introduction of the national competition in 1987.

It also equalled their worst ever losing margin of 117 points, first inflicted by West Coast in 2000.

The scary part is Bond couldn't rule out a repeat performance.

"Realistically you can't sit here and make predictions, I can't make predictions about what's going to happen on Saturday night or further in the year," he said.

"All I know is we are doing everything within our powers to make sure what happened on Saturday night won't happen again.

"The players are gutted and so they should be as well."

Fremantle sit dead last on the table and Bond said the coaching staff would go "back to the drawing board" in a bid to avoid the dreaded wooden spoon.

Bond said Pavlich (calf), Sandilands (hamstring) and Headland (hamstring) were a chance to line up against the Lions, with Wednesday's main training session to determine their fate.

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