In regards to Toovey, his record over the past 3 years has been good. There probably have been underlying issues in that time but the team just rolled on. The Glen Stewart saga seems to have been the tipping point and it's been getting worse ever since.
I heard an interview by Mason and he described Toovey's coaching style as, "run hard, tackle hard". That doesn't surprise me but these days, the more successful coaches are the planners & thinkers. Hasler, Bellamy, Maguire, and Robinson are like this. Perhaps to a much lessor extent, even Arthur.
Toovey's more simple style can work but the players need to buy into it. Clearly, some of the senior players don't want to continue and have looked elsewhere. Perhaps it's a combination of; they've won their premiership, rebuilding requires a lot of hard work, and they can't be bothered being bart of the next generation. Plus of course the huge money on offer.
However, there are still plenty of players at the club who do want their chance and do want to be part of the future. These are the ones who deserve priority now and the sooner the club gets behind these players, the sooner things will turn around.
Lyon, Ballin, Buhrer, Sene-Lefao, Hiku, Lawrence, Starling, Mason, Trbojevic, Sao, Stewart, Symonds, Gutherson, Lui, Chee Kam, Hodges, Mateo, Wiliame, Blair, Littlejohn, Rudolph, Burgess, Leary, Taufua, Andrews and Matai.
As far as I can tell, these guys plus a few others want to be part of the rebuilding. Add in some of the U/20's players and the future doesn't look to bad. Still haven't spent a cent.