Arden Street is set to become a more caring and sharing environment under North Melbourne caretaker coach Darren Crocker who's reintroduced an old-fashioned soup kitchen to help his players to bond.

Crocker said he's excited about the prospect of taking the reins for his senior coaching debut against the Western Bulldogs on Sunday following his appointment to replace Dean Laidley.

The 42-year-old said he recently sat down with playing group to explain his vision for the next 10 weeks which involves some significant departures from what the Kangaroos became accustomed to under Laidley - and he's confident the players are right behind him.

"The people who've been before me, Dean the most recent, have done some wonderful things, but the longer you stay in this game, the more you work out how you would go about things."

"There's a couple of things that I've tweaked up that I felt, standing back and watching, might freshen the group up for the next 10 weeks."

"There's definitely things we've done differently without obviously turning the place upside down."

"I've expressed to the players about having a real high-performance culture at the club so that when they come in they're walking into work but walking in also wanting to get better and enjoying the environment that we're going to set up for them."

Part of that new environment involves the 'condensing' of training to make it more enjoyable and the reintroduction of soup nights, one of many old-style club traditions allowed to lapse under Laidley.

"We've got lunch being brought in for them today so that when we finish training we'll go in, we'll have lunch together and have a chat," Crocker said.

"And there'll be the old soup coming back at the end of certain training sessions so the boys can sit around and just enjoy each other's company.'

"Things like that need to be driven and it would happen sometimes (under Laidley) but probably not on the regular basis that we're looking forward to over the next 10 weeks."

On-field, Crocker said the onus would be on the Kangaroos to 'play some exciting football' and create more scoreboard pressure.

He said a glaring weakness in recent times had been the team's failure to capitalise when the opposition turn the ball over.

"We've got to get back to really hurting sides, because it's great to have that 100 percent effort - that's a starting point - but then if you're not hurting the opposition when you get your hands on the footy it's worthless," Crocker said.

"One thing we haven't been able to do in more recent times is get the ball inside our forward 50 - we need to give our forwards the opportunity to kick a winning score, so we're going to free the players up to take on the opposition a bit."

"We want to play what we call 'best option football' so you just go forward with the ball where you can - lots of options, lots of numbers getting there to support - and if we can do that we should be able to penetrate the game a little bit more."