It's an old cliché, but Darren Crocker and the North Melbourne Tasmanian Kangaroos are firmly focused on attacking their 2021 campaign a game at a time.
With just three rounds remaining, the Roos are very much in the finals' race, but four-quarter performances are first on the agenda.
“It’s more about the journey and that is the type of environment we are trying to create and for everyone - to feel like they have got the opportunity to improve,” Crocker told The Mercury.
“If we do that, and everyone gets to work on the aspects of our game to help us put together four quarters, we will become a really good team when that happens.
“We all want to play finals, that’s always part of the vision.”
North will head down to North Hobart Oval on Saturday to take on the Western Bulldogs, the fifth-placed Roos looking to register their fifth win for the season at their home away from home.
“We will be trying to play to our strengths again, that will be the main thing,” Crocker said.
“At the moment we are going okay, but we need more consistency, so we will keep building toward that and the results should take care of themselves.
“Over the past two weeks in particular, we’ve started to get back to playing some or our better, more complete football.
“There were glimpses against Carlton in Launceston two weeks ago and our first half against Richmond was the most complete half of football we have played.
“Everything came together really well but I still don’t feel we have been able to play a compete four-quarter performance yet.
“It’s difficult because teams are going to respond like Richmond did after halftime. They took the game on a bit more and put us under more pressure.
“We can’t let that take us away from what we were doing so well in the first half.”
Defender and Tasmanian local, Nicole Bresnehan, said she is looking forward to playing in front of her home crowd.
“Personally, I feel we play some of our best footy there (in Tasmania); we have a good record when we come down to Tassie and we would like to keep that going this weekend,” she said.
“We have a strong connection and we come down and with the fans and atmosphere that North Hobart Oval brings, is a really big positive for us.
“I think that has helped us get over the line a couple of times down there.”
