Quote: NickyKiss "You can't seriously think Simon Moran will let that happen do you?
Whilst he's around you'll be competing in finals because he'll back you.'"
I think chairmen can only influence so much, sport is cyclical and as much as any one chairman wants to be competing year on year sometimes there is a bit of a fallback whilst the team reestablishes itself.
Players like Morley and carvell aren't easy to replace, though Warrington have signed replacements it's hard to see how Asotasi and England are gonna improve on those two (no disrespect at all to those two players they just have big shoes to fill) so the money gets redistributed around through contract renewals and the teams a little weaker.
You then go through the same process next year with briers and Monaghan next year and your salary cap becomes a bit imbalanced and it takes a few years for it to become rebalanced and compete for the very top prize again - as someone else said saints have been through it over the last couple of years and I expect them to start coming back stronger next year.
Warrington will be up there no doubt but I think they may miss out on a few finals over the next years