Lowe, who was sent to the stands for abusive language to ref Alan Milliner at half-time, still had his blood up when he faced the media post-match on Friday night.

And the coach didn't hold back when questioned about the physicality of his side.

“Not allowed to be physical – don’t mention that word please,” he said. “You can’t say that.

“And they weren’t physical last week against Victory? Dear me, dear, dear, dear me.”

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Lowe appeared to make a pot-shot at the media coverage of City star recruit and Socceroo legend Tim Cahill who had a quiet night at AAMI Park after the derby heroics the week before.

“Let’s just sit there like a little cat with our arms and legs in the air, they can tickle our belly, go score three and everyone can go pump Tim up again,” Lowe said.

“It’s the best team in the league and we come here and we competed and we deserved what we got.”

Lowe played down his half time on-pitch confrontation with Millner, after two of his players squared off with match officials over a contentious penalty decision that gave City the equaliser.

“I’ve actually run onto the pitch to get the players off the pitch, because I thought they might say something and get done,” he said.

“We had a few words and then a few words in the tunnel. And just as we were coming out for half-time I was told I couldn’t go back out.

“I didn’t…at the time…nothing happened. Fifteen minutes went and the ref came back in and he told me I couldn’t go back out, so I said, okay, cool, no problem.”

Lowe wouldn’t be pressed on what he said to the whistle blower and urged people to focus on his team’s performance, saying they had gone into the "lion’s den" and emerged victorious.

 “Let’s talk about our team because we were magnificent tonight,” he said.

“We deserved it. We came here and restricted them. I think they were given two goals.

Lowe quipped that his goalkeeper Liam Reddy had a quiet night in contrast to what was happening the other end.

“To come here and score three goals, three quality goals and I think Andy Keogh possible could have had another three,” he said.

“I think the biggest problem Liam had all day was whether his cigar went out.”