North Melbourne have floated the idea of a Good Friday showcase game as one way for the AFL to soften the financial blow of the club backing out of their Gold Coast deal.

While the league has steadfastly opposed staging matches on the Christian holy day in the past, Kangaroos chief executive Eugene Arocca said that combining a match with charity might ease some concerns.

He suggested it could help the club and the AFL reach agreement on a way to end the deal which has the `Roos contracted to play three home games at Carrara for each of the next two seasons, in return for $1.2 million per year.

With North having turned its back on the Gold Coast, the club will no longer be scheduled to play on the tourist strip, but Arocca was unwilling to let the contract go without compensation in some form.

"We don't just mysteriously pull $1.2 million out of our pocket without having some sort of pain," Arocca said.

"So we are very confident that with the AFL we will be able to find a way through fixturing and other commercial opportunities that will ameliorate that pain."

While Arocca said the club had yet to discuss the Good Friday concept with the league, he believed that using it to promote a charitable cause could decrease opposition to the idea.

"Certainly if there's a Good Friday match being talked about, we think we want to be the first in line and it's time to allow other clubs to build up a little bit of tradition about a game," he said.

"I would think a Good Friday match between North Melbourne and Carlton, the two closest football clubs to the Royal Children's Hospital, just seems to fit from a synergy point of view.

"I would think that any sort of resistance to a Good Friday game would be probably softened by the impact of having the Royal Children's Hospital involved in some way, so we'd love to certainly explore that."

AFL spokesman Patrick Keane said Good Friday football had been suggested numerous times over the past decade, with the league never wavering from their opposition.

"There hasn't been any discussion about altering what's been our stated position on a number of occasions," Keane said.

Arocca said improving the Kangaroos' deal at their main home ground, Telstra Dome, was another way the club could be satisfied.

"You look at Brisbane Lions, they pulled 22,500 people on the weekend, they would have probably made $200-300,000 or $150-200,000, we pull 30,000 and we make nothing, there's clearly something wrong with the system and the structure," he said.

"We say to (AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou) and the AFL that North Melbourne to some degree is in the position it's in because we've been labouring under a structure that simply doesn't reward even the clubs that are pulling crowds of 25-30,000."

Demetriou was confident the contract issue would be resolved.

"We'll work through those issues and I see absolutely no impediment whatsoever, we'll assist the Kangaroos with the games that they're going to play in Melbourne and there's not an issue there," Demetriou said.

It was yet to be decided who would fill the void on the Gold Coast until the new expansion club joined the league in 2011.

"We've certainly got lots of work we've been involved in there and various options and we're working through those at the moment," he said.

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