I believe that De$$ie is a man of great foresight and is (as we are well aware) a man of meticulous planning and execution. I've posted before that (and please note that this is more gut feeling than fact!!) it's my belief that De$ planned to leave at the end of his 2012 contract no matter what. A lot of his back ended deals that allowed us to retain such a strong squad came to fruition between 2012 and 2014. He knew damn well that keeping players like Gifty, Choc, Matai and Lyon would be difficult at best, and knew that retaining up and coming stars (see Foz/DCE/Burher etc) would be damn near impossible.
It's my belief that he didn't *really* set us up for a fall, specifically, but knew he'd benefit from our cap struggles over at Belmore. So it makes Tooves' coaching stint difficult? So farken what? Perhaps in a few years he could return as the messiah...
*** this is 100% speculation on my behalf. Please don't print this in the DT!! ***