The Diesels have been busy on the recruitment front this season, with four new faces confirmed so far, but Vanzanten is worried about the number of Group Nine clubs approaching their home grown talent.

He hopes a salary cap or players points system, which is a feature of the group’s five-year plan will limit poaching.

“We are budgeting on all our locals being there but in the last couple of weeks we’ve had some local clubs hitting our players hard to try and sign them,” Vanzanten said.

“We’re hoping the salary cap or player points system comes in sooner rather than later as we’re getting pretty pissed off about it really.

“Every second day someone is approaching our players to try and sign them.”

Vanzanten said the Diesels have a bonus incentive program to reward local players.

It’s aimed at providing the homegrown talent bonuses for putting in a man of the match performance and rewarding those efforts.

Vanzanten would like to see a player points system plus a transfer fee introduced for player movement within Group Nine.

Of the four new faces, Tristan Dickson has returned to the club after two years with Kangaroos.

He linked with Junee from Southcity in their run to the grand final in 2015.

The remainder are from outside clubs, but two have Group Nine experience.

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