NORTH MELBOURNE'S football facelift is continuing, with the club today expected to announce the appointment of Cameron Joyce, the son of Hawthorn premiership coach Alan, to an all-encompassing position overseeing recruiting, list management and player development.

The Kangaroos, having laid off key football personnel including veteran recruiter Neville Stibbard since the regime of James Brayshaw and Eugene Arocca took charge, are believed to have wooed Joyce back from West Coast to revamp the club's playing list.

Joyce was working for the Eagles as a forward scout. He will help coach Dean Laidley and football boss Donald McDonald rebuild the list, which sits in the bottom two of the 16 clubs in terms of total player payments.

It is believed Arocca and McDonald want to be well-placed to combat the inevitable obstacles that may occur with the creation of two new AFL clubs.

While North Melbourne is officially paying its players about 92% of its allowed salary cap, about $300,000 of that amount is made up of future payments brought forward. The more realistic figure is believed to sit just under 90%, an amount Laidley told the club last year that it could never achieve a true tilt at the AFL premiership.

Arocca and Brayshaw have vowed to lift the club's total to 95% by the end of 2009.

■Two key figures associated with elite football in Brisbane have been picked by the AFL to lead a working party to oversee the creation of the competition's new clubs.

One-time Brisbane Bears chief executive Andrew Ireland and Brisbane Lions football manager Graeme Allan will fill the two football-operational positions on the AFL's advisory board.

Allan and Ireland will be joined by two club chief executives, Hawthorn's Ian Robson and Fremantle's outgoing boss Cameron Schwab, while the chief recruiters from Collingwood and Geelong — Derek Hine and Stephen Wells — make up the six club representatives on the working party.