It's been a campaign unlike any other in Welsh rugby.
The game has stumbled from one crisis to another, leading to a number of high-profile departures within the Welsh Rugby Union. Indeed, the installation of revolving doors on Westgate Street seems like a formality.
You'd be forgiven for struggling to keep up at times, with the number of exits creeping into double figures for the last year.
Before the season had even begun, Wales breakdown coach Gareth Williams opted to leave the national team's coaching ticket to join former school friend Dwayne Peel at the Scarlets.
It's hard to say the move hasn't paid off. Within a matter of months, the Welsh coaching set-up he had left was no more. As for Williams, the Scarlets' defence showed obvious signs of improvement as the season wore on.
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It wouldn't be long before we witnessed another departure. It took just one game before the Union-owned Dragons dispensed with their director of rugby, Dean Ryan.
Initially, reports of his departure were met with silence, but as head coach Dai Flanagan stepped up to take charge of the side, it was clear something was awry. Eventually, in January, Ryan's exit was officially confirmed.
The Union's head of digitial communications and marketing, Mark Killingley, tendered his resignation from his Executive Board position in September after initially joining in 2016.
In November, WRU chair Rob Butcher opted not to stand for re-election for the role, days after his appeal to clubs to allow the WRU Board the option of appointing an independent chair was not passed at the union's Annual General Meeting on Sunday.
He claimed the decision not to stand again had been made before the AGM, but the result was undeniably a blow.
Butcher was replaced by Ieuan Evans, who immediately set out his stall to succeed where Butcher had failed in getting the option of an independent chair past the clubs. That opportunity came sooner than expected due to the sexism scandal that engulfed the Union.
It became apparent that the 'toxic' atmosphere described in the allegations needed rectifying, with an EGM this year resulting in governance reform that included an independent chair. The job was advertised earlier this year, with interviews set to take place this month.
If Butcher's departure - and the wider issues around it - summed up the problems with Welsh rugby holistically, then a month later the chickens came home to roost for the national team.
In early December, Wayne Pivac paid the price for a tough year that saw home defeats to Italy and Georgia. There was a first ever win over the Springboks on South African soil in the middle of all that, but it wasn't enough.
As the dust settled on the autumn, Pivac was axed - with Warren Gatland's return being announced in the same statement. The future of Pivac's coaching team was initially unclear.
However, just before the end of the year, it was announced that Stephen Jones and Gethin Jenkins would leave their roles as attack and defence coaches respectively. Alex King and Mike Forshaw were eventually named as their successors.
In the new year, the sexism scandal broke that resulted in WRU CEO Steve Phillips eventually stepping down from his role at the end of January as the scrutiny intensified.
Phillips had initially appeared intent on staying on despite the airing of a damning BBC documentary. WRU chairman Evans had initially backed Phillips to remain and help clean up the Welsh game following the claims made by former employees in the documentary.
However, Phillips eventually reached the conclusion that he was no longer the person to lead Welsh rugby. WRU performance director Nigel Walker stepped up into the role on an interim basis, with the job interviews set to take place in June.
Walker will certainly be in contention for the role, but were he not to get it, then either him or the WRU's new interim performance director Huw Bevan will likely leave the Union as well. As for incumbent chairman Evans, he will leave that role when an independent chair is appointed in the near future, although it remains to be seen if he stays on the WRU board in some other capacity.
Given the Six Nations started with the Union engulfed in one crisis, with the mid-point then being marked by another in the form of contract disputes with Welsh rugby bosses that nearly saw strike action ahead of the England game, getting to the end of the campaign was ultimately a relief.
But even the end of the tournament was marked with a departure. After defeat to France in Paris, captain Ken Owens and Gatland alluded to a member of the coaching staff leaving.
Initially, no name was mentioned - but it quickly became apparent that fitness guru Paul Stridgeon would leave his role as head of physical performance. After naming his World Cup training squad, Gatland confirmed that Stridgeon, known as 'Bobby', was departing in order to see more of his family - with long-term deputy Huw Bennett stepping into the role.
The most recent departure is that of financial director Tim Moss. Perhaps, given the timing, this is the most concerning of the lot - as it comes with Wales' four professional sides yet to receive their first instalment from the WRU since signing a six-year agreement last month.
Belts are being tightened across the board, with the four sides' budgets set to drop dramatically over the next two seasons, but crucially, they are all still waiting on their first instalment because the contract requires Welsh Government approval due to a current loan agreement it holds with the WRU.
It's been a season of unprecedented upheaval and departures, with the identity of those in the majority of major WRU positions at the start of the season set to be different when the next one begins.
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