North Melbourne is remaining tight-lipped about whether it will take a punt on controversial forward Dayle Garlett. Club recruiting Manager Bryce Lewis refused to give too much away when quizzed on the Gold Coast.

"In Brad Scott's time at the club, he's always encouraged us to take who we rate as the best player,'' he told backpagelead.com.au.

"…we've caught up with Dayle on a number of occasions throughout the season. His football speaks for itself, but I'm not in a position to telegraph what we're going to do on draft night."

The Roos have picks 30 and 47, having already committed pick 8 to father/son Luke McDonald.

"We always felt that Luke was a talented player, but we had to take some of the emotion out of it, and ensure that the pick we were going to use on Luke was equal to his value, so we hadn't arrived at that decision until just prior to the bidding system took place at the start of the trade period.

"For a number of the boys in the draft, they would have first been exposed to clubs at the National Under-16 Championships, however players develop at different times, so there'll be boys drafted that have pretty much only come onto the radar this year,'' Lewis added.

"They might have only been invited into the TAC Cup, or local club's program recently, and that's the exciting thing about recruiting, each time you go out and watch a game, you're never quite sure who'll bob up."

Lewis says North has interviewed more than 75 potential draftees.

"I'd be disappointed if someone got called out on draft night that I was unfamiliar with, and that's always a chance to happen, but I think with the network we've got in place, and how hardworking our staff are, that we have a sufficient knowledge of all the players picked."

Recruiters have arguably the toughest job in football and Lewis has been in charge at North for the past six-years.

"Because it's a very subjective discipline, we all see things differently, and so particularly on draft night, a player that one club could rate in the second round might go as a rookie or vice versa. And that's the beauty of it, we don't all agree on things, but all the clubs are really thorough and professional, and put a lot of time and effort into the decisions that they ultimately come to.

"There's more information available to clubs and recruiters in terms of the technology with most of the games around Australia, not only having films, but individually coded films for each player, so you have the ability to build up extensive databases.

"There's now also medical information and psychological information that's compiled by the AFL, and clubs have multiple staff members dedicated purely to recruiting."

North has three full-time recruiting staff and about ten part-timers in the department.