Robin Nahas excited about getting second chance at North Melbourne North Melbourne will give former Tiger Robin Nahas another crack at AFL, set to sign the small forward as a delisted free-agent. North Melbourne recruit Robin Nahas is excited about his second chance. ROBIN Nahas was determined for it to not be the end. The 25-year-old bares no ill will towards Richmond for cutting him loose at the end of last season, but the small forward knew he had more to give for another AFL club. That club is North Melbourne after the Kangaroos yesterday formally recruited Nahas as a delisted free agent. "I hadn't finished, I just knew that in myself," Nahas says. Even though last year was hard I didn't accept any of it. If I'd accepted it as a player then I thought I should be giving it up. But I knew I had a lot more to offer and I'm going to do everything I can this year to prove that. He may have possessed the drive to continue on, but Nahas admits he didn't have the confidence he would be given an avenue to add to his 83 senior games and 100 goals. "Being a specialist forward type I knew that I needed a club that needed that specific role," he said. Getting (the call) at the start of November, it's obviously a long wait from the end of the year. I wasn't too confident, no, but I'm more than happy. I'm rapt, excited and just can't wait to get started. North Melbourne probably seemed an unlikely destination for Nahas a month or so ago as the club pursued Carlton small forward Eddie Betts during the free agency period. But once Betts had committed to Adelaide the planets aligned for Nahas to get to Arden Street. My manager contacted me last week to say North wanted to have an interview with me last Thursday, just a general chat to find out what sort of a bloke I was. They got back to me to say that Brad wanted to meet me for a one-on-one coffee and the rest is history. Obviously it worked out pretty well for me. Nahas played 46 games straight heading in to last season, but was dropped in Round 2 and played only six games in total - a career low. His disposal-per-game average dropped from 19 in 2011 to eight in 2013 and after kicking 34 goals in 2012 he only managed three this season. Nahas says he has been recruited to the Kangaroos as a defensive forward. He was ranked third at Richmond for forward-half pressure applied per minute in 2012 only to drop to ninth in 2013, but Nahas says not to read too much in to that. Last year was sort of hard to use any of my stats. I played three games as the sub and was subbed off in one of them as well so I'm not really going on stats," he said. I know that it's part of my game and something that I'm definitely going to work on more to make it the strongest part of my game. It was a tough season mentally, but as a person, as a player, you mature a lot. You understand that it's a business and things change pretty quickly. There's no grudges towards the Richmond Football Club, they've been fantastic to me over my five years there, I've got great memories. But a change of structure last year hurt my position, so you just move on. In Lindsay Thomas North Melbourne already has one of the most damaging small forwards in the competition. But Nahas is adamant the two can play in the same forward line. I'd like to hope so, that's probably the difference between whether I play or not. I'm definitely sure we can co-exist. I'll do all the tackling, he can kick all the goals, it doesn't bother me I just want to play. I'll do whatever I can to be the best player I can be and whatever I can do to help the North Melbourne Football Club I'm willing to do.