It was the spray that had the footy world talking: North Melbourne coach Brad Scott's red-hot go at his ruckman Majak Daw, in last Saturday's loss to Essendon.

Was it the worst that Daw had ever copped?

"Yeah," the big Kangaroo admits in a video interview, partly hijacked by teammate Jarrad Waite, on the North Melbourne website.

"I've had a couple in my time but yours was worse," sympathises Waite.

Which left Daw to reveal what was going through his head. "I just looked out on the ground and you know that song 'hello darkness my old friend'," said Daw, referring to lyrics from the Simon and Garfunkel song The Sound Of Silence (to the delight of Waite, who crowed: "Simon and Garfunkel, one of the greats!")

Daw said that he and the coach had laughed off the third-quarter tirade, and that he would work on Scott's desire for him to play with more aggression.

"It was a fair spray but I can understand where Brad's coming from. He wants the best out of me and I think someone like me, I've got a pretty thick skin," Daw said.

"The game was on the line so we needed to get going and he thought that could get me up and going ... We've spoken, we've had a laugh about it, but I think for me it was turning that spray into what can I work on during the week, what can I do with the ruck coach and the midfield coach so I guess it's about learning really from it.

"Being aggressive doesn't come naturally to me so it's continually working with Brad and chatting to him in what ways I can play with aggression. It works for me and it lifts the team so I think it will help me and I'll find out what works."