Even if Ridenton is worse than Lewis now that's not necessarily an indictment on the Nix's coaching/youth development. Developing youth players has a large degree of luck involved. Even the top academies and clubs in the world still produce more misses than hits, and world class talents develop in random places. You'd have to see a consistent failure to develop talent before you could say that the Nix are getting youth development wrong. At the moment we simply haven't been doing it properly (academy, reserve team etc) long enough to judge the outcomes
Even if Ridenton is worse than Lewis now that's not necessarily an indictment on the Nix's coaching/youth development. Developing youth players has a large degree of luck involved. Even the top academies and clubs in the world still produce more misses than hits, and world class talents develop in random places. You'd have to see a consistent failure to develop talent before you could say that the Nix are getting youth development wrong. At the moment we simply haven't been doing it properly (academy, reserve team etc) to judge the outcomes