“We’ve worked for about 30 years on the opportunity to play on Good Friday, and the club’s 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 on Wednesday at Arden Street.

“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. I’m sure all North Melbourne fans were really pleased with the standard of footy they saw in the second half.”

He noted that the crowd probably would have been bigger if North had been up against a higher-profile opponent like Richmond, suggesting that he wasn’t overly fussed who the Roos play in the match going forward, as long as North are involved.

“We’re talking about building a tradition.I know a lot of my family and friends went on holiday on Thursday night, and they’re either down the beach, interstate, they’re on holidays on Good Friday,” Scott said.