EMERGING North Melbourne forward Matt Campbell hopes his finals debut will have a sequel after Saturday night's sudden-death match against the Sydney Swans.

Campbell's first taste of September action will also be his inaugural trip to the Harbour City, as a player and a tourist, and he plans to return with some good memories.

While understanding that no player is safe after a 76-point thrashing -- the Roos' result against Port Adelaide last weekend -- the 21-year-old is only waylaying some of his excitement.

"If everything goes to plan and I train well and the coach isn't too angry ... I get an opportunity," he said.

"Obviously last year I missed out on the finals, so I'm very excited and just looking forward to getting out there and having some fun I suppose."

After 11 games in 2007, Campbell has played 21 this season and kicked 32 goals as a key component of North Melbourne's well-rounded attack that has shared 128 across David Hale, Corey Jones, Lindsay Thomas and Nathan Thompson.

Hale leads the goalkicking with 35, after a recent spate of form that has produced 15 in three weeks.

It's where Campbell considers North may carry an edge over the Swans, especially if fellow power forward Thompson returns from an ankle injury and two weeks in the VFL.

"Last week against Brisbane they (the Lions) only had the two talls and I think Sydney loved that," he said. "They just zoned off the small blokes that help out (Daniel) Bradshaw and (Jonathan) Brown.

"I don't know what the go is with team selection this week. Maybe they (North Melbourne's coaching staff) might go with a tall and have a few smalls down there, but I'd say there'd be a fair balance in whatever they go with.

"When your big blokes are in form and they're marking, we have to find our ball somewhere else because we're not getting the fall of the ball.

"It's good when the other forwards are stepping up, you look at our leading goalkickers list and there's about three or four of us on 30 goals."

It's North Melbourne's first game at ANZ Stadium, with the side to train there on Friday afternoon, and Campbell says the focus on the Swans and the venue replaced the disappointment of the loss to Port Adelaide pretty quickly.

"I think once we had a look at the review [on Monday], we were pretty honest with each other, and once that happened we put it behind us," he said.

"Today's a new day, pretty much a new week, today's all about Sydney for the rest of the week until we play them. We're pretty keen to get up there.

"Last week we didn't really speak about the top four or anything. It was more about getting the win for Shannon Grant.