NORTH Melbourne is confident it can build Good Friday into a marquee game if given the necessary time by the AFL.

The Kangaroos played on Good Friday for the second time last week, beating St Kilda by 52 points before a crowd of 33,966.

That crowd was a significant drop from the 42,814 who watched North host the Western Bulldogs in the augural Good Friday game last season, while the standard of that match – a thriller the Dogs won by three points – was vastly better than last Friday's game, the first half of which was strewn with errors from both teams. 

Fairfax Media reported on Tuesday the AFL would consider fixturing well-performed or bigger clubs to play on Good Friday in future in an effort to increase the crowd, television ratings and spectacle. 

North coach Brad Scott told reporters on Wednesday the Kangaroos would "relish" the chance to remain part of the Good Friday game and believed they could eventually make the occasion an integral part of the AFL calendar.  

"We've worked for about 30 years on building the opportunity to play on Good Friday. The club has done a power of work, both in campaigning for the game and then in doing a lot of work to make sure that we build our partnership with the Royal Children's Hospital, to make it a big event," Scott said. 

"We'd certainly relish the opportunity to continue to build on that tradition and it takes time to build up a big marquee game.

"I know the quality of the football in the first half wasn't what either team would have liked, but I was really happy with our players' response in the second half and I'm sure all North Melbourne fans were really pleased with the standard of footy they saw in the second half from us." 

Asked whether the crowd for last Friday's game had been disappointing, Scott noted that when North hosted St Kilda at Etihad Stadium in round 13 last year the game drew just 26,107 fans. 

The North coach also said the fact the Bulldogs entered last year's inaugural game as reigning premiers had been a factor in its far larger crowd. 

However, Scott was confident that, with time, North could condition its fans to view Good Friday as a must-see game. 

"I know a lot of my family and friends went away on holiday on (Easter) Thursday night. They're either down the beach or interstate; they're on holidays on Good Friday," he said.  

"We need time to indoctrinate North Melbourne people into the fact that you stay in Melbourne on Good Friday, you come to the footy and then you go away Friday night and have Easter Monday away, (you) take your kids away on school holidays.  

"That sort of thing takes a bit of time for people to get used to."  

Scott did not feel North needed to play the same opponent each Good Friday to create a tradition.

"I'm not overly concerned as long as there's one core team involved," he said.

"Who we play is completely up to the AFL. I think the AFL do what they do best, which is they always analyse what's happened and they try and make the best decision going forward.  

"We certainly support them in that. We'd just like a seat at the table to help build this game into a real tradition."