The Magpies' Sunday same-day football experiment looked set for a happy ending when they led by 35 points midway through the second quarter.

But the Jets got a couple of late goals before the half-time break to narrow the margin to 22 points, before Mitch Haddrill inspired a remarkable second half comeback.

The Jets kicked 12 goals to four after the break to run out winners, 15.6 (96) to 10.11 (71) at Victoria Park.

The win consolidated the Jets' position in the five, with it also putting a severe dent in the top-three hopes of the Magpies.

Jets coach Josh Avis is thrilled to see everything starting to come together at the right time of year.

"We sat down as a team and talked about what our goals were at the start of the year and to see them coming together and coming together at the right time, I just couldn't ask for anything better as a coach," Avis said.

"It's clicking, it's happening, the boys are buying into the style of footy that we want to play and buying into the standard that we do set and want we want to do around the club so it's been fantastic."

Avis believes adapting to the conditions and playing a simpler brand of football paid dividends for his team.

"We had to work pretty hard in the second half of the second quarter and it sort of clicked in the second half," Avis said.

"Our game plan is built around dry weather footy and it was a little bit slippery and we were maybe trying to be a little bit too cute.

"Our work rate wasn't up enough, we were letting them sort of run rampant and every time we got the footy we were trying to be too cute with one, two, three, four handballs and taking blokes on. Just that selfish footy, that stuff where we didn't have belief in each other.

"I went in at half-time and pretty much said to them that I was going to give you a spray until that last six or seven minutes, where we started to move the footy with that one handball, get it on the boot. We started adapting to the conditions a little bit better."

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Haddrill led the charge for the Jets, with his coach describing him as 'an animal'.

"He stepped up and just took his game to the next level," Avis said.

Sam Fisher followed, along with the likes of Jack Fisher, Hamish Gaynor and Brad McKinnon.

The Magpies lost Dylan Cook with an ankle injury in the opening minutes, while Mitch Stephenson (knee) also struggled.

David Pieper and Tim Sullivan were the best of the Magpies.

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