North Melbourne coach Brad Scott isn’t about to throw the baby out with the tropical monsoonal rain-filled bath water.

The Kangaroos suffered a 16-point round one loss to Gold Coast in Cairns last week, with torrential rain associated with Cyclone Nora making for a dour AFL slog on a water-logged oval.

It’s going a step too far to suggest North’s season will start again when they take on St Kilda on Good Friday.

But Scott will certainly get a clearer picture of where the Roos sit after they’ve performed in the pristine conditions of Etihad Stadium.

“We’ll go back really into the focus that we had pre-season more than taking things out of round one,” Scott told reporters from Arden Street on Wednesday.

“We trained all pre-season for more, I suppose, normal footy conditions so we don’t just throw out all of the stuff that we did in the pre-season because of one game.”

Scott admitted his team were outworked by the Suns and will look for improvement in that area against the Saints, who opened their season with a hard-fought win over the Brisbane Lions.

The conditions in Cairns demanded a smaller line-up and Scott will look to add some height to his defence this week with Majak Daw and Ben McKay jostling for a call-up.

Scott called on Kangaroos supporters to turn up in force this week as the club looks to cement its hold on the high-profile fixture.

The Western Bulldogs were dumped after they won the first-ever AFL match played on the religious holiday last year and the league has made no guarantees there won’t be further changes down the track.

“It’s a massive occasion for our club … we fought for decades to play this game,” Scott said.

“It’s huge and we want North Melbourne people to really get behind this game and make it a permanent fixture for us.

“We’ve been the one on the ground doing a hell of a lot of work with the Royal Children’s Hospital and making sure that this is more than a game … that it’s about a bigger picture.”

Part proceeds from game revenues go to the hospital’s Good Friday Appeal.