MELBOURNE coach Dean Bailey says the club has not decided how many players it will delist at the end of the season.

The club is having weekly meetings with an eye to how many selections will be needed in the draft.

"That ball is still in the air, in terms of the number of draft picks we want to have," Bailey said from Junction Oval on Wednesday.

"Recruiting is going to be an area that we're going to have to get really good at over the next three or four years, because of the early draft picks going.

"Those players playing in the second tier competitions – the SANFL, WAFL, VFL, AFLQ and the different leagues down in Tasmania now – most clubs are going to be scrutinising them to try and find more players to pick from.

"[That's because] the first round draft picks are going to the two new teams."

Although Bailey conceded several players were playing for a contract extension in the final three rounds, he would not be drawn on the future of 225-gamer Russell Robertson. 

Bailey said he refused to discuss Robertson's future in the media saying talks with the managers and players were confidential.

The re-signing of young-gun Cale Morton for at least another two years though was great news for the club according to Bailey.

"We think he's a young man who has got a great career at Melbourne. Cale sees that and he wants to be a long-term Melbourne player, which is fantastic for a kid from Western Australia.

"They've (the Morton family) got three outstanding kids playing AFL footy and we hope Cale is going to be the best of the three of them."

Meanwhile, Bailey is excited by the prospect of club great Garry Lyon potentially joining the AIS/AFL Academy ranks.

"If he gets involved with the under 16s, we'd welcome his input when he goes and watches the under 16 kids," he said.

"It'd be great. We'd have a Melbourne person in there watching and studying them and he'd be able to pass on some valuable information to our recruiting people, so that'd be a nice win for us.

"It's good that Garry is going to have a look at it and I think we can benefit from it."