GEELONG needs to improve the quality of its entries inside 50 if it hopes to kick a winning score in the near future, according to tall utility Mark Blicavs.

And scoring is a primary concern for Geelong, with the Cats recording their lowest aggregate score in the opening four rounds since 1972, when they scored just 275 points.

This year, the Cats only lead Essendon and the Brisbane Lions for total scores (293 points to Essendon's 292 and the Lions’ 248) and have just one win on the board.

For the first time this season against North Melbourne on Sunday, the Cats won the inside 50 count (57-50) but they failed to hit the scoreboard regularly, with 9.13 (67) being their third score under 70 points this season.

The problem on Sunday against North Melbourne was a keenness to kick the ball long and high to their tall targets up forward, particularly Tom Hawkins and Mitch Clark, despite the duo being regularly outnumbered by Kangaroo defenders.

"They (Clark and Hawkins) competed as well as they could with what they were given," Blicavs said after the loss.

"We were bombing it on Robbie Tarrant, Scott Thompson and Hawks' head and it is two on one, and 99 out of 100 the outnumber is going to win it."

North Melbourne had 43 rebound 50s, with Tarrant, Thompson and Sam Wright taking 27 marks between them.

"That is something we need to work on, our entries going inside 50," Blicavs said.

"Possibly (we need to improve) around the ball, having a bit more composure, finding that release first and then making a better entry."

Cats coach Chris Scott agreed the team dumped the ball inside 50 too often when patience and possession may have been more desirable.

Scott rightly identified decision-making as an issue in the forward half, with much of the modern game now about winning the uncontested ball and delivering to the right option.

The Cats had 69 fewer uncontested possessions than their opponents, with their inability to spread and find the ball in space a growing concern.

In the end, as Blicavs identified, numbers told less of the tale than the quality behind those numbers.

"They set up really well behind the ball and the entries to Mitch [Mitch Clark] and Hawk [Tom Hawkins] I felt weren’t good enough," Blicavs said.