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NORTH Melbourne has bolstered its recruiting department, adding former Melbourne talent boss Barry Prendergast.
Prendergast has accepted a position as the Kangaroos’ recruiting officer and academy talent manager, helping oversee the budding junior talent in the club’s zones in northwestern Melbourne and Tasmania.
North Melbourne confirmed his appointment to the Herald Sun.
Prendergast headed Melbourne’s recruiting department from 2008-12 and drafted a swath of players including Tom Scully, Jack Trengove, Jack Watts, Liam Jurrah and ace ruckman Max Gawn.
He has spent the past five years at Carlton working in the coaching department as an opposition analyst, but made the move to the Roos over summer.
Prendergast will help form part of a new-look North Melbourne recruiting department headed by former Geelong talent expert Michael McMahon.
The Roos’ former national recruiting manager Bryce Lewis has left the club.
The recruiting changes come as the Kangaroos’ embark on a critical transition period after parting with four club greats last season.
Former North Melbourne chairman James Brayshaw said the Roos required an “aggressive reset” and would look to rebuild with top young talent after making finals in four of the past five seasons.
“From the board down to the footy department, all we said is, ‘Where are we going from here? What do the next five years look like?’ And I think we needed a pretty aggressive reset to give our club the best chance of playing in and winning its fifth premiership,” Brayshaw said last year.
“I think we need to get back to the draft, we need to get some really good quality kids into the place.
“We’ve got some already, but we need to add to that and we would be looking in this next five-year period to have a very strong on-field performance with sustained on-field success.”
NORTH Melbourne has bolstered its recruiting department, adding former Melbourne talent boss Barry Prendergast.
Prendergast has accepted a position as the Kangaroos’ recruiting officer and academy talent manager, helping oversee the budding junior talent in the club’s zones in northwestern Melbourne and Tasmania.
North Melbourne confirmed his appointment to the Herald Sun.
Prendergast headed Melbourne’s recruiting department from 2008-12 and drafted a swath of players including Tom Scully, Jack Trengove, Jack Watts, Liam Jurrah and ace ruckman Max Gawn.
He has spent the past five years at Carlton working in the coaching department as an opposition analyst, but made the move to the Roos over summer.
Prendergast will help form part of a new-look North Melbourne recruiting department headed by former Geelong talent expert Michael McMahon.
The Roos’ former national recruiting manager Bryce Lewis has left the club.
The recruiting changes come as the Kangaroos’ embark on a critical transition period after parting with four club greats last season.
Former North Melbourne chairman James Brayshaw said the Roos required an “aggressive reset” and would look to rebuild with top young talent after making finals in four of the past five seasons.
“From the board down to the footy department, all we said is, ‘Where are we going from here? What do the next five years look like?’ And I think we needed a pretty aggressive reset to give our club the best chance of playing in and winning its fifth premiership,” Brayshaw said last year.
“I think we need to get back to the draft, we need to get some really good quality kids into the place.
“We’ve got some already, but we need to add to that and we would be looking in this next five-year period to have a very strong on-field performance with sustained on-field success.”
