Collingwood Magpies lose another recruiter

Collingwood’s gutted recruiting department has suffered another blow after their talent ID manager quit, choosing to leave for West Coast instead of accepting a promotion at the Pies.

It leaves the club poised to enter the season with their football department in a state of flux for a second successive season.

Collingwood have lost another recruiter. Credit: AFL Photos

Three sources with knowledge of the situation, who did not want to be named in order to speak freely, said the club had offered Adam Shepard a role as replacement for Derek Hine. They then planned to appoint another person to work as the talent ID manager.

But Shepard told the club this week instead that he would take a similar role at West Coast.

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