We should not get caught in a bidding war for the nrl melbourne stars.
Much better to look at melbourne's toyota cup premiers team from last year and see if we can nab a few of their of young players at good value and sign them up to long term deals. melbourne will be so busy trying to fit their nrl stars under the cap, they will not be able to hold onto all of their young talented kids.
an example of the talent that is coming through - canberra won the title in 08, their team included josh dugan and shaun fensom who are now establishing themselves in the nrl. matt duffie was in melbournes team last year and has just broken into the nrl - and they are only going to get better and more expensive in the coming years if we don't go after them now.