CARLTON defender Michael Jamison said the Blues completed an honest player review on Monday after Friday night's embarrassing loss to Essendon.

Jamison, 23, said the players were hurting from their "inexcusable" performance against the Bombers and had since turned to some serious soul searching.

"There's no point trying to skip around anything when you have a loss like that," Jamison said at Visy Park on Monday.

"There's only one way we can regroup and regather and that's to be honest with each other and tell each other where we are at."

Jamison said the 69-point loss was particularly disappointing considering the fact the Blues abandoned the two main objectives they entered the game with.

"We had two things to focus on, and they were the two things that let us down the most – our physicality and our transition running," he said.

"We knew we had to match Essendon in those two aspects of the game to be competitive, and obviously we didn't and it was pretty embarrassing.

"You don't want to lose any game like that, but to lose against Essendon, the arch rivals, after such a big build up, it definitely was embarrassing."

The tall backman also said the Blues' lack of desire compared to the Bombers' determination had something to do with the blow-out result.

"Essendon was a lot more physical and had more intent than us, and it cost us in the end,” Jamison said.

"We had a huge build up so there are no excuses for us starting off flat and probably remaining that way for most of the game.

"It's inexcusable, we know we've let a lot of people down and we're out to make amends this week."

The Blues will now travel to Perth this weekend to face Fremantle.

Jamison said the opportunity to get away as a group, as well as play a rematch against a side that had already beaten them this year, had come at a good time.

"Fremantle beat us earlier in the year and we don't want to lose two like we have with Essendon now," he said.

"We're really focusing on this week. We want to go really well in our interstate games, and hopefully we can start that this week."

Defender Paul Bower will miss a couple of weeks with a knee injury but Bret Thornton is expected to be right to replace him after missing two games with a hamstring injury.