I thought Martin's contract was pretty evenly spread out and besides when it's 1.2mil ish even if you weight it one or the other it's still a fair chunk each year, and Lynch was only on 500 ish on his first year with us so his yearly salary now would be a fair bit. I don't think grigg, ellis or houli would be taking up too much space, and jack cotch and sheds still have a year or so after this don't they?Martins contract was front loaded. Lynch's may not be. Happy to be corrected. In the last couple of years we have lost Rance, Grigg, Ellis off the books. future deals with Jack, Cotch, Shedda won't be as costly (if they even decide to go on), and Houli who is on good coin must be close to winding up as well. I don't think it's as bad as you think.
On the flip side (a positive or negative depending on how you look at it), other than bolton and potentially balta I can't see us getting hit too hard on any re-signings so we shouldn't need to bank too much for that