Crusher_Cleal
Bencher
I think we're forgetting how unlikely it was in the first place of having 10 straight years near the top in the salary cap age. Success is cyclical, and regardless of the fact that we've made a mess of things, we were always likely to have some lean times after our playing group started ageing. This is especially the case when players contracts have to be upgraded from very little to very high (ie DCE, Foran, Buhrer, Hiku, etc), and existing players needing upgrades (Stewarts, Watmough, Matai, Lyon).