I'm not sure, I largely do not care about this, but I recognise I might think differently if I owned Innes and MacAusland in their prime.
Let's be practical here. What is the alternative? Do we have another candidate who fits more of the criteria?
Also how big of an advantage is to run the NT (yes you see skills, but the scouts/assistants do too), the important thing to me is that the NT staff communicate properly and well in advance to the community, if players on the NT radar are expected to come to the market based on conversation with the owners. Maybe the solution is to have proper scrutiny by other managers?