I'd really like to see a draft.
This association with Blacktown is probably a good move, and good work to the club but it highlights, how rubbish the NRL are at managing this game.
Shane Richardson dribbled these arguments a few year or so ago against a draft, but the NRL and the league hierarchy has peddled these excuses since Jesus was a boy.
1 The NRL wants a system where players from an area, can grow up in and represent a there local team in that area.
2. Its not fair for the kids to travel for employment.
3. A draft is not how league historically has operated, the game would lose some of its character.
Is it hypocritical?
Right now, Half of qld plays for Melbourne.
Kids from the central coast get to grow up dreaming of playing for their area, because central coast is right next to Bondi.
Now westies at black town and Manly you couldn't get more intrinsically linked could you.
The only thing a draft would change is melbourne, Brisbane, Roosters, Penrith and Warriors having dibs on the best young kids.