a) it is bad form to announce player departures while they still have games to go for their current club...
b) with a couple of exceptions, those players all came here to play reserves or fringe players, looking for a challenge and to extend their careers...
c) moving that many players out means we will definitely be bringing in a whole horde of new ones, which is always exciting. We do need a rebuild, and I agree we may very well be looking at coaching as part of that before too long, but fresh players need to be brought in.
Yes, personally I would have liked to see more game-time for some of them, and they haven't kicked on (which is hard when you play for our reggies, I guess), but they were almost all on one-year deals, or coming to the end of longer contracts (Starlo). Many of them will have wanted to move on anyway, to try and find a club where they are likely to get a run in firsts (Knights).
d) Good luck to them all, it is always sad to see players go, and harder still when you see them playing for other clubs and know that they once busted a gut to play for the Eagles (Gutho, Hiku, JSL, Lui...)