How are North Melbourne not favourites? | The Art of Coaching with Ken Hinkley (01.04.26)

North Melbourne are underdogs here Kenny would you have had the Kangas as underdogs in this game on good Friday?

I don't think so, but Sherry is obviously a big big out, you know, but I think overall kangaroos have you said before the hat shown little glimpses

I reckon of having a look around the corner. Where they've turned the corner, but they're poking their nose around the corner to have a look

I reckon they're going, oh do I like it around there or not? I think I want to get around there, but I've still got to figure out exactly how to get there.

So it's a really interesting game. It's a really close game. I don't think we'd be surprised either way. You know, Carlton have shown their first half-stuff spin is good as anyone against anyone even Sydney, you know, but they haven't been able to get, you know, if they get the half-time there, they're not four or five goals up.

Kangaroos will be incredibly confident and Carlton will have a fair bit of doubt, but, you know, I think maybe Carlton getting the half-time behind might be a great result for him.

It still is it might sound, you know, instead of having that build-up pressure around our wealth, we've got to hang on to this lead. No, this might be, we have to get after this now otherwise we are going to lose.

So for North, this is their day. They cultivated it so well and they've been great custodians of it. The trouble is they've been terrible, just broadly terrible in this game where they put themselves forward.

So it feels like that I know last last year was a test and they failed it so badly that this feels like a credibility test for them.

Would you if you're inside, how much would you play up to that or would you or would you smother it?

No, I think you'd have to join into it. I think you have to really we had the China games. I know it's a really strange comparison, but we had the China games and I know the pressure that was on to win those games, you know,

because we made a big decision as a footy club to take this adventure on it. North Melbourne have wanted to own good Friday and it's a much, much significant day for them and for the not even for just them, for the state and for everyone in the hospital and everything that goes with it.

So yeah, they need to they need to own that and they need to own that in the build-up. I would have thought they need to understand that, listen, if we're going to emerge as a club who are going to be worthy of something and this is a very worthy day,

we need to make sure we perform at a worthy level at the very least and I think now there's no excuse for them not to be worthy of playing on the good Friday and I think that's like I would lean into that a little bit, I'm sure.