Ahead of the 2011-12 season they lost high-profile players James Hook, Lee Byrne, Jerry Collins, Marty Holah and Mike Phillips and were without a glut of Test stars playing for Wales, Ireland, Scotland and Samoa at the World Cup.
In my memories of 1980s Manhattan, Times Square was never without a glut of street preachers and religious maniacs screaming at and pleading with passersby.
On May 15th, The New York Times published an article about a movie industry worried over how summer would go without the usual glut of sequels.
It is only now beginning to be understood that cultures may also suffer grievously from information glut, information without meaning, information without control mechanisms," wrote Postman twenty years ago.
Given the natural gas glut, and without an inexpensive way to get it to a buyer, it is more economical to burn it.
Even if Beijing's shale-gas plans come to nothing, supplies from Central Asia and new regasification terminals along its coast may allow China to reach its natural-gas consumption targets without pricey Siberian supplies.The glut has weakened Gazprom's position in Europe, too.
He's now gone six matches without a goal, a glut that looked nigh on impossible when he was banging them in so ruthlessly in his first three months at the club.
Without it, the world's glut economy, unchecked, can be a huge threat to the nation's prosperity.
During catastrophic fire seasons, he said, even a glut of seasonal workers without proper leadership "means we may not be there in a timely way".
Scarce resources, notably water and oil, are used without sufficient regulation to produce a glut of often not-nutritious food.
