Quote Originally Posted by Delusions of Grandeur View Post
I defy you to draw a graph based on our league position and not points tally and tell me there has been no decline. We once won the league with 78 points. We’re on the decline. You can’t measure the performance of a team in isolation without looking at the competition and growth in the market. Nobody does that. What was good enough 10 or 20 years ago doesn’t mean it’s enough for today.
I've given the league positions above...
This is pretty much what that graph would look like though:

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You could compare these two years

2005 2nd 83 8
2006 4th 67 24

And say there's a clear decline but then 3 years later it was:

2009 4th 72 18

And then last year:

2017 5th 75 18

That's the first year we finished outside the top 4 and it was only by 2 points. We don't know yet whether that marks the start of a period outside the top 4 or was a blip.
There has been a decline in terms of quality of our play, in terms of league position and points total, not so much.