Exactly. Team recruitment is being driven by finance at the moment. The club is not rich and is falling further behind many counties, not least the likes of Somerset (take a look at their finances). The team has massively over-performed in recent years primarily off the backs of a few players, RTD, Harmer, Porter, Masters. The trick is to manage how the team evolves to ensure continued success or at least continued competitiveness. I don't see that managed evolution happening at the moment. If I'm correct then there is a high risk the team will decline very rapidly.
What do you mean by 'managed evolution'? The club has given contracts to, and then released, a few younger players who've had limited opportunities. Either they won't make it, or the club has been a little premature.
Apart from that, the club hasn't splashed cash on overseas talent - presumably because we haven't got that sort of money or aren't prepared to go out on a limb (as we apparently can't balance the books at the moment after winning a number of trophies over the past 3 seasons). Gloucestershire have hired a star bat, should we have done the same? or could we have done the same?