“They will probably be too tall for us,” Kangaroos coach Tony Bishop conceded ahead of their third round North West AFL match-up.

“We’ve got to work our way around that.”

It’s not a new problem for the Roos and, Bishop said, will probably be something they have to deal with throughout the season.

”There’s no easy way around that problem in the game of AFL. [But] There are ways,” he said.

“We have to pull through in many other areas to make up for the lack of height.”

He’s hoping a bit more leg speed will also help in that regard, and enable them to get back to the running game that has for many years been their style of football.

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The Roos had the chance to see a bit of the Eagles at the pre-season Crossroads Cup but Bishop isn’t taking really anything from that.

Neither is he their first round loss to the Moree Suns.

He said it wasn’t a realistic indication of how they are going to play after travelling up to Moree without a full complement.

“We will be a completely new side,” he said.

The Eagles are coming off a heavy defeat to the Gunnedah Bulldogs but the Roos won’t be taking them lightly.

“Historically they have been a never say die sort of club,” Bishop said.

“No matter what talent they’ve got or numbers, they always put in to the end.”

In the round’s other games the Bulldogs host the unbeaten Inverell Saints, while the New England Nomads make the trip to Moree.