Yes, but...
As of the start of last season, you'd lost all your stars, and the laws had already changed to neuter your favourite tactic; but you finished a perfectly respectable 7th with a perfectly respectable 50 (IIRC) league points; with a young squad who would all improve from the experience.
I think everyone expected you to build on that for this season.
Having the same coaches, the same players and the same laws as last season, doesn't explain this drop of. There's something rotten, and it simply has to go deeper than players and coaches.
I would add that Rowe going into the locker room to give a piece of his mind is about as good a look as when Bruce Craig did the same.