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IF THEIR club's first Hobart outing is anything to go by, North Melbourne supporters will be eagerly counting down the days until the Roos' next trip south to the island state.
Finishing 129 points to the good against an overwhelmed Greater Western Sydney, the Kangaroos thrilled the 11,127-strong crowd with a blistering opening term and 16 second-half goals to record their first win of the 2012 premiership season.
"If you'd have guaranteed that before the game, we'd have taken it and run," Kangaroos coach Brad Scott said post-match.
"But we really focused on the way we wanted to play (and) we knew GWS were going to give us a fierce contest around the ball and to their credit I think they did that, it's just very difficult to sustain that effort."
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The young Giants were outmuscled across the park by a North Melbourne team keen to atone for a narrow loss to Essendon last week and despite the huge margin and one-sided nature of much of the game, Scott said the hit-out was only of benefit to his players.
"It's still a game of AFL footy," he said. "The boys are still pretty sore and feel like they've played a genuinely competitive game of AFL football."
Particularly promising for the Roos was the performance of up-and-coming utilities Liam Anthony and Ryan Bastinac, who combined for 82 possessions and four goals to lead the way.
Anthony flew out of the blocks with 16 touches in a red-hot first quarter and said the side's ability to play according to its game plan had been pleasing.
"We came down here to win," he said.
"We didn't take GWS lightly. We did a lot of homework during the week and all that research certainly paid off for us today.
"Obviously none of us have played here before so the ground was uncommon to us, so we tried to stick to our game plan - run, carry, overlap - and I think we did that through the game, used our hit-up leads."
The 24-year-old was especially pleased he and 20-year-old Bastinac had been able to get through the kind of workload often left for some of the more experienced campaigners at Arden Street.
"We've had Wells, Swallow and Harvey doing it for years, so I think it's up to the likes of myself, Bastinac, Adams and Cunnington to really up our intensity and ball winning ability just to help those guys out," Anthony said.
"If we help them out we're going to become a better team in general."
