Collingwoodfc.com.au caught up with National Recruiting Manager Derek Hine after the Rookie Draft was completed on Tuesday and asked about a range of issues relating to the club’s list management heading into 2012.

In Part Two of Collingwoodfc.com.au’s exclusive interview, Hine looks at some of the club's New South Wales Scholarship players and other developing players.

Click to read Part I - recapping the 2011 National and Rookie Drafts.

Luke Mason: Let's look at the rookie list. We've retained our two International Rookies - Paul Cribbin and Shae McNamara - from 2011. Where are they at in terms of their development?

Derek Hine: Paul Cribbin stayed back from Arizona because we were very mindful that we’d like to put size on him. He’s tackling the training really well. This time last year, in his first year in the system, he was really held back in a sense by a hernia operation. That sort of held him back for a good two months when you look at the time he was out and when he got back to full fitness, so he was chasing his tail to a certain extent.

He’s had a really good pre-season to date. There’s a lot of water to go under the bridge yet, but I know the coaches are very happy with the way he has attacked the pre-season, so fingers crossed he’s going to have a full go at it.

He’ll return to Ireland just before Christmas and he’ll be back at the start of pre-season. He’s put some nice size on. He plays that (Tadhg) Kennelly type role at 191cm. He gives us that taller running defender.

Shae McNamara sits outside the list with Michael Hartley (NSW Scholarship rookie). He’s still over in Arizona. He’s a boy that really hasn’t had much of a go at it with injuries and so on, so we’re pleased to have Shae because he gives us support for our taller players. He can potentially come in and play a role and allows the Jonathon Ceglars of the world to develop. We can call on him if need be.

LM: One part of the list that we never hear too much about is the NSW Scholarship program. What's the latest on the prospects we are currently developing?

DH: We’ve still got a few players to come through. There's Elijah Edwards, John Haggerty and Jed Hillman, and we’ve got the potential to list Tyson Carracher as a 19-year-old. That will play itself out in the next three months.

With the other boys, we’re hopeful that at this time next year we can look at potentially listing them as a 17-year-old in much the same way as we listed Tom Young.

Elijah is an elusive, well balanced player who hits the scoreboard well. He’s at Scotch College so we see a lot of Elijah.

John Haggerty has missed a lot of football this year again, in a not dissimilar situation to Jarrod Witts, who had that growth-related stress injury. John’s up around the 195cm-196cm now so he’s got the same scope as Michael Hartley as he can play forward and back.

There’s a good little group there coming through for us and we’ll obviously be putting a lot of effort, in terms of their development, in the next few years so we can hopefully get them down the same path as Tom Young and Jarrod Witts.

Tyson Carracher certainly has displayed AFL scope. We brought him down for a period last year to potentially look at him as a 17-year-old. He certainly has got AFL scope and can play in the carnival as a 19-year-old. He’ll play in the NSW Championships in Coffs Harbour in January so we’ll certainly get up there and monitor him and how the boys are going.

LM: Tom Young was able to play for Collingwood's VFL team in 2010 as a 17-year-old before he was drafted. Is that something you'll be looking for all NSW Scholarship players to do?

DH: It’s a rule that the AFL was able to implement as part of the opportunities given to the two new franchises that have come into existence. It was just another means for clubs that have had NSW scholarship players on their list to get them into their system a little bit quicker.

In Tom’s case it’s worked well where as Michael Hartley was in the same boat last year when he stayed home and finished his schooling. It comes down to circumstances and where they are in terms of their development.

We’ve been very, very pleased with Michael with the way he’s come back and he’s a very high end competitor and we’re very hopeful that in our system and the development program that Nathan’s (Buckley) set up that he’s really going to be able to thrive in it.

LM: Now that the drafts are over, what does your future hold?

DH: It moves on very quickly. First we’ll assist with the boys’ assimilation into the football club. We’ll go on a little bit of a holiday, and then we’ve got the AIS Squad that will have their first camp in January so we’ll certainly have a presence there. Then in mid-January there’s the carnival up in Coffs Harbour.

After that, there’s an AIS tour to New Zealand which is a little one that will take up a couple of days so it moves on very quickly. We’ve got our planning and our staff reviews and all sorts of things so we don’t get much of a sleep. It certainly never sleeps, there’s no doubt about that.

Click to view a recap of the 2011 National and Rookie Drafts.