North Melbourne caretaker coach Brett Ratten has seen “elements of success” in his facet’s AFL marketing campaign regardless of their dropping streak reaching 12 matches.
Winless since spherical two, the Kangaroos sit second from backside at their mid-season bye.
Ratten will lead a overview of the 12 months up to now in coming days, with head coach Alastair Clarkson nonetheless away from the membership on private depart.
“There’s elements of success,” Ratten mentioned after Sunday’s 21-point defeat to the Western Bulldogs.
“When you win two games, you can’t sit there and say it’s been a success, but I think there’s a fair bit of growth there.
“The publicity that a few of the people have had will assist us transferring ahead.”
Inexperienced players George Wardlaw, Harry Sheezel, Bailey Scott, Will Phillips, Eddie Ford and Tom Powell have all provided some hope for the future with impressive performances this season.
Ratten insisted the mood within the Kangaroos’ playing group was still upbeat as they looked to take further positives from their remaining nine matches of the season.
“They can see the little wins,” Ratten mentioned.
“If you simply take a look at the tip results of each recreation, you are going to get fairly flat, however there’s been some progress.
“There’s really good communication in reviews around how we’re going, what it looks like, how we want to play.
“The training half remains to be there and so they can see what we’re attempting to do … typically we see it for 60 or 80 minutes however we’re not seeing it for 120 and that is the bit that is letting us down.”
North only managed half the number of forward entries that the Bulldogs generated (36-72) at Marvel Stadium on Sunday but Ratten was most concerned about the lop-sided tackle count (49-77).
“We’ll do a bit of labor on it,” he mentioned.
“It was type of across the contest; we weren’t getting via the competition at them and that was the distinction between the 2 groups.
“If we fed back, they pressured us, and if they fed back, we just gave them too much time and space to use the footy.”
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