Highly-rated Bathurst prospect Noah Griffiths is set to join the Melbourne Storm at the end of the season, as reported by The Daily Telegraph.

The 17-year old signed a four-year deal with the Storm when he was 15, and is being dubbed ‘the next Cooper Cronk’ as the club’s future playmaker.

Griffiths spent this season playing for the Bathurst Panthers in the Under-18s Group 10 competition and reportedly impressed his future Storm teammates.

“We put a stamp on Noah when he was 15,’’ Storm recruitment manager Paul Bunn told The Daily Telegraph.

“We recognised he was a real footy player early and went after him.’’

Melbourne discovered Griffiths through their top-secret computer program that helps the club identify the NRL’s next stars, but signing them on bargain basement deals.

It uses NFL and English Premier League technology, which helped them land the likes of Cameron Munster, Ryan Papenhuyzen, Josh Addo-Carr. Tui Kamikamica, Tom Eisenhuth, Marion Seve and Suliasi Vunivalu.

The Storm were inspired by the one-of-a-kind software, used by English football giants Liverpoool and Manchester City, to formulate their own system.

“Its proper name is the Melbourne Storm Decision Making Support System,’’ Melbourne recruitment manager Paul Bunn said.

“We gave it a real boring, cumbersome name so that nobody takes notice of it. We don’t want anyone else looking at it and we have never shared it with anyone.

“Only a few people even know it exists and only a couple have seen it.’’