Who cares. Two flags in three years and finals every year from 2013 bar 2016. Something worked, probably a combination of many things, and it's up to the other seventeen clubs to work out their own strategies.Who outside of first round draft picks made it from those early days in the Hardwick rebuild? Grimes and Astbury are the only blokes that you could possibly argue Richmond developed using that method from Hardwick's first 4 drafts at Richmond.
I'm just not sure there is any evidence to suggest that it's beneficial to develop talent that way.