Seats were becoming vacant, but boundaries had been redrawn, making it hard to assess the winnability of the new constituencies.

Cheryl Salisbury[…]moved back to defense, and became a veteran force on the backfield. By 2003 she was captain of the Matildas, but still found enough time to hone her skills for the WUSA[…]

Without her, his life was on the skids.

Let's turn that around and look at it from another angle.