NORTH Melbourne would fully support an AFL crackdown on players staging for free kicks, coach Brad Scott said on Thursday.

AFL football operations manager Adrian Anderson told The Age the League would consider taking a harsher stance on staging after being urged to do so by some clubs.

Scott said the AFL had spoken previously about cracking down on staging and hadn't fully followed through on it, but stressed North would welcome a tougher new stance.

"I think everyone is in favour of that because one of the great things about our game is that it is a tough brutal contact sport and I think when players genuinely get hurt they go down," Scott said.

"I think it's pretty unsavoury when you see a player go down with what looks like a pretty serious injury only to see him bounce up two seconds later. So I don't think that should be a part of our game.

"If the AFL want to crack down on that, they'll have North Melbourne's full support."

An incident involving veteran North defender Brady Rawlings against Essendon in round 13 was highlighted by some commentators as an example of blatant staging that had gone unpunished. In that game, Rawlings fell to the ground in an exaggerated fashion after Bomber Angus Monfries made contact to his chest.

The Age reported the AFL Match Review Panel had considered laying a charge against Rawlings.

Scott said he had spoken to some of his players this year to discourage them from staging but had not seen the need with Rawlings.

"I didn't speak to Brady because that's not characteristic of the way Brady goes about his football," he said.

"But I have spoken to other players this year about (staging) with particular incidents."