Not that I’m justifying Tish, but remember that we lost a number of players for almost free due to our inability to get players signed up.
When we were signing players at this time all the noise being made was about the need to ensure we had our talent, ahem, signed up for a decent period of time to ensure we didn't get into the same place again. You’re never going to get it all right and there will inevitably be case like this. However, the plus side is younger players we think have a future have been signed for a decent length of time.