Bermuda's national football teams have exhausted the 'development card' and results on the international stage must now take precedence, insists technical director Derek Broadley.

While Broadley admits nurturing talent for tomorrow and meeting the demands for immediate results is a delicate balancing act, he said equipping players with the tools for victory must now take priority.

A ruthless streak is almost as important as having a sound technique in the cut-throat world of international football, and Broadley wants both virtues to be developed at the national academy.

"I feel we're doing all the right things in terms of development but I think we've reached the point when we have to play our best players and go out and win matches," said the former Crystal Palace academy director.

"We need to focus more on results because we've played the development card as much as we can and next year we won't get away with that.

"Me and Devarr (Boyles) were talking the other day and we agreed if we're guilty of one thing it's that we're always trying to develop. We don't have the luxury of having lots of international games and I want us to be more ruthless and stop being Mr. Nice Guys."

Although the Bermuda Hogges managed to blood as many as ten teenagers last season they struggled to be consistently competitive and finished bottom of the PDL league.

In developmental terms, Broadley believes the campaign was a success but he accepts the results were evidently not good enough and would not be tolerated next summer.

"I think we have been able to get away with the development card because we had ten under-20 players taking part in an under-23 league," said Broadley. "But by playing so many youngsters we never really had a chance of winning enough matches.

"It wasn't a level playing field at times and it's hard to keep judging ourselves if we don't compare apples with apples.

"It must have been demoralising for the likes of Keishen Bean, Darius Cox and Damon Ming because sometimes they were playing alongside schoolboys.

"However, the under-20 World Cup qualifiers will be a good indication of how successful the Hogges season was and we need to be picking our best team for that competition."

Bermuda must also start selecting their strongest possible side for the senior international qualifiers on the horizon in the build-up to the 2014 World Cup, and Broadley said that meant recalling experienced campaigners Khano Smith, John Barry Nusum and Kevin Richards.

"At some point we need to integrate the Khanos, the John Barrys, the Kevin Richards, and the Reggie Lambes because in the not too distant future we have some very important international games on the horizon," he said.

Hogges co-owner Paul Scope also believes the PDL season would have served Bermuda's best young players well heading into the under-20 World Cup qualifiers in October.

"The BFA have had their Bermuda under-23 national team play 16 very competitive games in less than two months so they should be well prepared," he said.

He also pointed out that five members of the squad had been sent, or were heading, to the UK to try and further their football careers.

"Freddy Hall and Tyrell Burgess have both been to England where they have had trials at professional clubs and Derek Broadley's managed to get Quadir Maynard, Nahki Wells and Tahj Bell at English academies.

"So we've had five players going overseas on the back of the Hogges and it proves that as a development team we have been a success.

"For us to improve at the national level we need to get as many players as we can playing abroad. If we can do that then the Hogges would have been successful."