Well they have two sides - the recruitment and the monitoring of success and failure of the recruitment. Recruitment wise they'd spend a lot of the year floating around looking at kids they've heard about, studying them and assessing the fit. Remember up to 100 kids come up for consideration each year - that's a lot of research to do. I know at Geelong they meet the kid, the parents, the club they come from. It's not like you and I - we look at the list a week out from draft and go - oh yeah, he sounds good. They'd also need to monitor the progress of the existing players to a) understand how their recruits have gone - to see if they've had wins or mistakes (and to correct mistakes) but also b) to understand what the club is missing - part of which would be decided by the football dept manager. More to it I'd reckon. We're talking about businesses that turn over up to $50 million or more a year, so yeah - fairly serious stuff.
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List manager manages the list, sounds too simple, but they are generally responsible for the recruiting of players to the club through the draft and trades.
