Rawlings, McCartney, Jennings, Viney, Sam Pietsch...
You can play the technicalities game but when a club have that many leave, (no matter the terms) over a single off-season, you know something is up.
We had a crisis meeting off the back of our horrendous first half of the year. There was a complete restructuring of positions at assistant level, (that's alarming given it was the middle of the season). And by the end of the year, we had an exodus.
I'm not comparing us to Adelaide, I'm looking at us.
In the eyes of the footballing world, we were at crisis point by mid-year and by year's end something had to change. And it did.