NORTH Melbourne leaders Brent Harvey, Drew Petrie and Brady Rawlings will be charged with ensuring the club's famous Shinboner spirit won't be lost with the move into its $15 million facility.

The Kangaroos have spent three weeks in the new building, whose state-of-the-art gymnasium, theatrette, medical rooms and basketball court have provided a surreal adjustment for every player apart from those recruited in the recent drafts.

As its resources fell further behind the competition, particularly in the last decade, North drew inspiration from the camaraderie and earlier success of clubrooms which couldn't even guarantee them a warm shower after a winter training session.

"One thing you try to teach the boys as soon as they walk through the doors is that you respect and appreciate what we do have and make the most of it," vice-captain Petrie said.

"We've been competitive since day dot in that facility and you'd think that coming across to here would only be an improvement for the group. We wouldn't think for the boys to take things for granted."

On their first day at North, draftees Ben Cunnington, Ryan Bastinac, Aaron Black, Jamie Macmillan, Ayden Kennedy and Brayden Norris were shown through the old rooms to help them appreciate the transition.

Their new teammates had stopped using them just two days earlier and come the new year, those structures will be demolished.

"We should make them train there for the first six months just to do their apprenticeship," Petrie said.

"Hopefully we bring across the culture, the character and the respectful nature that the team had in the old facility, and what we had.

"I reckon they could leave it there for the next 10 years and, whoever the new guys are, they get a walk through that before they come over to the new one."

Coach Brad Scott said late last month that the new facility - and a strengthened attitude towards high performance - would encourage North to redefine what its Shinboner spirit meant.