To pick up up where you left off, culture is the key to success and the more conducive the culture can become to success the longer it can be sustained. The thing is, you can't just create a culture and hope for the best. In fact, club culture is one of those things that has cursed the traditional VFL teams, South Melbourne and Fitzroy with their dwindling fanbases and changing demographics, while Geelong, St Kilda, Melbourne and the Bulldogs had Flag droughts over 50 years long - Geelong underwent a massive 10 year rebuild under Bomber, St Kilda's rebuild was flawed by their rape culture, the Dogs pulled things together very quickly under Bevvo and nobody can really tell when the Demons will have sustained success again - perhaps it's the Curse of Barassi, since whose defection to Carlton they haven't won a Flag.
Culture can't be produced, but the conditions for it can be. Like when something goes mouldy, the right conditions give the culture of a place a chance to grow. The West Coast Eagles were given the best chance of sustained success when they first came into the comp, which Adelaide Crows emulated on their own entry. GWS didn't do anything special except the AFL gave them access to way more top draft picks than the Suns as well as Zone selection in one of the most fertile areas for recruitment.
I think Clayton has done well to attract 12 local boys to our list and believe that local recruitment is going to be one of the key pillars of our club's future.