I hope you're right on that last point. The big fear is that the management team are a bit naive and focused on the short-term. Obviously you want to stay up, but wanting to stay up and needing to stay up are two different things. If the relegation clauses aren't there then you need to stay up...
just been on the qprdot.org board and they don't seemed to be that alarmed that they are ploughing money into players to keep them up when the likelihood of survival is slim.