Cam Luke

In fact, I probably thought if you had said 10 minutes into the third, how do you think this plays out?

I did feel the longer that game was going to go, the more North Melbourne's potency was going to show up.

But, you know, maybe some mental fragility.

Griffin Logue kicks it along the ground.

The lead goes from two goals to three goals and then completely goes...

um, rudderless from that point on.

You know, you just look at them defensively, at some of their numbers, they're the second worst team in the competition.

Essendon are far and away the worst, but they're the second worst team

at preventing ball movement.

And that shows.

And you run into Sydney.

So all things being considered, the fact that North Melbourne are so poor at preventing ball movement and Sydney are so good at ball movement, it's probably amazing they got so close.

But that's the element of the game that they've got to continue to try and tidy up.

Again, Comben's got... If you have a look at their defensive group, the group that played yesterday, I think you can mount the argument in 24 to 36 months, it's a completely new group except for Comben.

Parker's probably not there.

I think they'd love to go past Griffin Logue.

Caleb Daniel, is he still there?

Luke McDonald won't be there.

So that's going to be an entirely new group.

And I think whether there is a real leap into the top four, top six of the competition for North Melbourne will come down to can they find...