North Melbourne coach Brad Scott says his side needs to add more polish after loss to Hawthorn Drew Petrie at the final siren. NORTH Melbourne coach Brad Scott says his side needs to add polish after another tight loss. The Kangaroos won on the stats sheet but failed on the scoreboard, going down to Hawthorn by three points. They're 13th with one win from five matches and yesterday's result and a four-point loss to Geelong in Round 2 could prove costly. Asked how tough it would be to make the eight, Scott said: "I honestly don't care because I can't do anything about it. "What I can control is getting the team playing really good footy," he said. We expect to win every game we play. When we get everything right, we produce that sort of effort coupled with a bit more polish, I think we're going to be a hard team to beat. North Melbourne skipper Andrew Swallow at the final siren. They must rebound quickly as they face a rampaging Port Adelaide in Hobart on Saturday. "It's easy to get despondent when you're not getting that reward for effort, but we'll keep focusing on what we're doing well," Scott said. I think the players have great faith and trust in what we're doing. "I don't think morale's going to be an issue, we've got to make sure we keep the boys ups because it's a very fine line this game."The Kangaroos had 16 more inside 50s than Hawthorn, won the clearances 44 to 25 and the contested possession count by 23. A 13.18 conversion rate proved costly. Lindsay Thomas at the MCG. "We gave ourselves an opportunity to win and we didn't take it, so we've got to fix those things really quickly," he said. I thought our midfield was really good, we were able to create opportunities going forward. Sixty-three inside 50s gives you a chance to win and when you keep the opposition to 46 (47), you give yourself a really good opportunity to win the game. Clearly one of the areas we need to get better at, as has been said, just our polish. We didn't score when we had opportunities, but we created opportunities, which is the hardest thing in footy. We think we can fix those quickly. Forward Lindsay Thomas kicked five goals, midfielders Daniel Wells (27 touches) and Andrew Swallow (35) were impressive while defender Scott Thompson held Lance Franklin to just five behinds. Forward Lachlan Hansen was a late withdrawal with a minor medial ligament strain.