David Noble will demand the best from his players, while understanding the value of patience with a young, developing list.

During a special member Q & A, Noble said he was excited to take the reins at North Melbourne and confident the club was heading in the right direction.

“I'll be hard, I'll be demanding and I'll be caring, all at the same time,” he said.

“I think that's really important. We'll coach positive. The coaching team is going to coach off a positive platform. So we'll take the things that we're really good at.

“We're not going to ignore the things that we're not so good at, but they will come. Demanding is one (value) that comes to mind and there'll be standards that we'll set that we'll want to hold ourselves account to.”

Noble said the players would take on extra responsibility to ensure everyone was accountable for the team’s success.

“I think as you get to learn the group, as a group takes more accountability for their actions on field, we want them (the players) to be able to make decisions on the field, to manage the game, from their perspective,” he said.

“I think you need to learn and adjust as you go, no doubt about that. So maybe I won't be as demanding in 12 months’ time, as maybe what I start with.

“The players will be up for responsibility for training as well. We need to teach them about how the game unfolds, their ability to adjust.

“A wingman in a game that is tight is different to a wingman in a game where it's bouncing backwards and forwards up the ground, with no stoppages. So we need to educate the guys around what that is, and they need to help us take responsibility for that on the field. We'll challenge them in that. We'll get them to take some of the meetings. We'll get them to take some of the video reviews. We'll give them that responsibility to learn in that space.”

Noble said he’d looked closely at the Roos’ games from 2020, and saw plenty of reason for excitement.

“The good bits that I pulled out from games, and this is to all our fans, I actually really liked some of the ball movement. If you took some really small sample size, our efficiency with our ball and what we did and finding that target was actually really good. So I will encourage that,” he said.

Skills will be a key focus during pre-season training.

“I just had a half an hour meeting this morning with Gavin (Brown) and Leigh (Adams) in regards to setting up our first rules for when we come back,” Noble added.

“A lot of it's around just skill execution. We won't put too much pressure in. We just want to get them (the players) to understand that there'll be some more requirements to take those kicks over 20, 25 metres, and we'll start that from the get-go.”

Noble confident with the next generation of players coming through.

“There'll be a bunch of those mid-range guys that I think will move in regards to that dynamic on their game,” he said.

“And then I think from the older guys... the mature guys, we want to add some new skills into them. Now, some of those will be leadership skills, some will be a little bit more around re-tuning some of their skills for the game, but ultimately we want to shift together.

“I think keep your eye on that group that are in that 20 to 23-year-old bracket. That's what I'm sensing. I think that that group is ready to put their hand up and make a mark.”