North Melbourne are mired in a losing mentality as they risk recording the first winless season since 1964, AFL great Matthew Lloyd says.
The Kangaroos lost by 18 points to Collingwood on Saturday night, in one of their few genuine chances to notch a win this season.
While coach David Noble has been honest about the club being stuck in a deep rebuild, he will hope to avoid the first winless season since Fitzroy 57 years ago (0-18). No team has gone winless in a 22-game season.
"I spoke to a North player a week or two ago and that mindset sets in; they start believing they're not going to win many games and that's the problem, if it filters into the players that they're not expecting to win," Lloyd said on The Sunday Footy Show.
"They should go in to beat Hawthorn this week. That's another game they should win, 17th vs 18th."
Fellow AFL great Nathan Brown said that North couldn't expect much from its current list.
"Wins wallpaper over some of the cracks but the process ... where do you go with North Melbourne," Brown said on The Sunday Footy Show.
"It is the process, they need to build but I don't think they have the cattle to get those wins at the moment. They don't have a lot of players coming in, there's nothing exciting about a lot of the younger players."
Port Adelaide great Kane Cornes said that while Noble was an admired leader, there was a bottom line to his current predicament.
"If I'm a North supporter ... we want wins. We are a win-loss industry. We don't want process," Cornes said on The Sunday Footy Show.
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