Actually Don, Lefty joined several months before the 55t change. So having gone from a 4-5 year estimate to upgrade, he's now looking at 6-7 years. Its gonna cost him a lot of cash and extra time spent in cattle class, so he has every right to be pized off along with many others in his shoes.
Sadly without the benefit of a crystal ball, it was not possible to see the Melbourne incident coming along with the unjustifiable knee jerks that followed!