This off-season seems to be the definition of "one step forwards, two steps back".
One Step forward - we get Lynch as a free agent.
Two steps back - lose ruck and midfield depth (Griffith, Hampson, Chol, Conca, Miles, Lloyd, Ellis, Stengle)
Still it was only in the losing final that we were exposed for this lack of depth and that's never going to happen again.
After all we won a premiership only a year ago so our leaders are so much smarter than everyone else.