LIVE AFL: Roos aim to avoid dreaded spoon with Clarko watching against Suns

North Melbourne will be keen to continue to ride the good news wave on Saturday and finish a horror 2022 campaign in style as it faces the Gold Coast Suns at Marvel Stadium.

The Kangaroos (2-19, 56.5%), who appointed Alastair Clarkson as coach for 2023 and beyond on Friday, would usurp West Coast on the ladder with a win. And with the Eagles playing top-placed Geelong in Geelong later in the day, that would likely see North avoid the wooden spoon.

The Suns (9-12, 99.1%) can equal their best ever season record with a victory and jump to 10-12 — they finished with that ratio in 2014. But they have a bad record at Docklands, winning just seven of their 29 games there.

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North Melbourne made a late change, with Callum Coleman-Jones (ankle) ruled out and Charlie Comben coming into the side. Kayne Turner was named medical sub.

The Suns made no late changes, with Charlie Constable named medical sub.

This match gets underway at 2.10pm AEST from Marvel Stadium.

Watch it live on Fox Footy (channel 503) from 2pm AEST.

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