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This isn't very good but I knocked it up quickly. It goes from 1989 to last season.
There's no clear line between the titles in 1989 and 1998.
You could argue that you can draw a line showing decline between 1998 and the current day.
I'd suggest a more accurate analysis is a period of us being a "top 2" club between 1998 and 2005.
Then a fairly rapid descent to a "top 4", and generally towards the bottom of that top 4, from 2006-present.
From 2006 till now there has been no clear decline or progress. We've kinda oscillated between 3rd and 4th, the exceptions being the last 2 years when we finished 2nd then 5th.