It's a really fine balance that they've got on their hands I think. Like you, I don't want to see too many players discarded, but there's no point in sticking with it if we're not remotely competitive.
I think we need 20 players who can be called upon to compete without being totally shown up in that league.
Right now I think we have 13 (including ELF)
Patto, Hume, Cirkin, Ballard, O'Nien, Jobe, Le Feè Neil, Rigg, Roberts, Mundle, Isidor, Mayenda
That leaves 7 signings needed for me at present.
The difficulty I have is figuring out what we do with Alese and Huggins. They're the kind of players where we need to be ruthless and move on I think.