It really is.
I swear there was a fans forum* where they basically laid out the plan of having as paper thin of a senior squad as possible and rely on reserves/youth expected to fill the gaps, but I can't for the life of me find it.
* - it may have been communicated elsewhere but that's where I remember it from.
You mean the "purples" and "browns" and so on?
aye, turns out to have been one of llambias's genius moments, somehow thought it was more recent than that.