This is the wrong thinking...IMO our recruitment-----talent identification has been very pour in the past.
I think it has turned around in the last couple of tears, but that means we have to wait for them to grow, train hard and toughen up.
I think Melbourne are very good at this with no nursery to dip into.
IMO Bellamy sets out to his talent scouts/recruitment team what he wants in his players ie. speed, height, size etc. GO SEEK. Them interviews them to assess if their attitude fits the club culture before progressing further. A blueprint I hope we are adopting. Just need unbiased, independent talent scouts, recruiters who don't promote their relative's. [I hope Benji has a wish list to pass on to his recruitment team]. I'm a dreamer!
Sure Bellamy scouts them down, but it is the other half which we are doing wrong.
First 3 weeks at Melbourne, they send the 'new recruit' to a construction site. Usually to work the Gravel for a cement mixer. It's a HORRIBLE job.
Clint Newton arrives at Melbourne to see a winger and a center step into a cage to have a serious boxing fight.
It's not Recruitment that were doing poorly, now. It's the training and the hardening of players.