With rainy conditions forecast for Sunday's game at Patersons Stadium, Thursday's wintry blast at Aegis Park provided perfect environment for North Melbourne.

Most players rugged up for the brave conditions and Hamish McIntosh took things to a new level with a NMFC hoodie and 2XU compression tights.

There were plenty of contested marking drills and a lot of goal kicking practice with Aaron Edwards even giving Foxtel’s Brad Johnson a run through of his set shot routine after session concluded.

In Round 4's game, North kicked 10.17. The inaccuracy early in the final quarter prevented any chance of a late comeback.

There is much doubt over the makeup of the final side after multiple strong VFL performances last weekend. Todd Goldstein trained strongly as did the likes of Brad McKenzie, Matt Campbell and Ben Warren.

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Michael Firrito and Scott Thompson
Max Warren
A soggy Aegis Park
Run-throughs in the warm-up
Ben McKinley
The squad stretching
Hamish McIntosh

Photos by Rob Burton.