Phil Gould has again called for the NRL to address its dilution of the talent pool, saying a lack of a player draft was a key reason for the "amateurish" Dolphins expansion bid so far.The decision to make the Dolphins the 17th NRL team was only confirmed in October of last year - and plenty of people have expressed concerns with a 2023 debut season not being enough time to build a team."The way that the league has gone about its expansion project is absolutely amateurish, in the extreme," Gould said on Nine's 100% Footy."There's no draft, there's no salary cap dispensation, there's no draft choices - when they put GWS into western Sydney, the advantages and the amount of investment they put in those to make the new franchise work was incredible."We've got not plan to bring a new team in. We've handed it to Redcliffe and said 'catch and kill your own'."While their forward pack is shaping up nicely, the Dolphins' backline is sorely lacking firepower with only Robert Jennings, Jamayne Isaako, Euan Aitken and Connelly Lemuelu boasting any NRL experience."Firstly, they needed two years if they're going to do it this way," Gould said.
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