NORTH MELBOURNE midfield dynamo Brent Harvey's form is so good he has taken to dishing out tips to his opponents on how best to play him -- whether they want it or not.

Harvey freely admitted today that his unsolicited advice to Melbourne tagger Lynden Dunn was what led to the Demons youngster being reported twice in the space of a few seconds early in the third quarter of today's MCG clash.

"I was letting him know what I thought of him, I thought he played a little bit of a selfish game," Harvey said.

"He was tending to watch me rather than go for the ball and probably could have stopped a couple of goals or certainly put pressure on the boys.

"I let him know that he was certainly being a little bit selfish and I don't think he liked it, so he gave me a couple of little ones.

"I knew the umpire was watching, so I kept yapping and he gave me a couple of good ones and I got a couple of free kicks."

Dunn's name was twice taken by umpire Scott McLaren for striking.

Harvey was happy to deliver more free coaching tips to his opponent post-match, suggesting Dunn failed to use what might have been his biggest weapon in their duel, a 20cm height advantage.

"I couldn't understand why when they were going forward he wouldn't run me forward and try to get me one-on-one down back," the diminutive North star said.

"He wasn't doing it, so it was making my life pretty easy. I didn't have to man up too hard, I'm always happy doing that."

Neither Dunn, nor Harvey's starting opponent Clint Bartram were able to stop the Roos veteran continuing his strong vein of form.

Harvey's 27-disposal, two-goal game, filled with his trademark ability to create space with his dash, may earn him more Brownlow votes.

He had started the round vying with the Western Bulldogs' Adam Cooney as second favourite behind Geelong's Gary Ablett for the AFL's most-prized individual award, although he said team glory was his focus.

"You always read the paper and you see all the speculation and that, but I'm playing footy for the team game, I play footy to win premierships," Harvey said.