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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.
In 1998 we won the league with 78 points. Last season we finished on 75 points. In 2014 we finished on 79 points. Would anyone in their right mind argue that we’re slightly better than the 98 team or just a few points off from them?