I agree with your feeling Chris. The more you do/spend, the more you'll have to do/spend, and that's not only with tokens. My latest example is with morale boosters. I decided to trade the few tokens left for these blue boosters and all I got was a team whose morale decreased even faster than before, even after an easy victory.
Now that I've decided not to care about my players' morale, it seems to have stabilized... even with 5 draws in a row.