Not if you look at it from a marketing perspective in 2016/17 Wookiee. Not sure in 2017/18 though...
Very true, I've been saying this as long as I've been saying the negative stuff, that the signing of Gaze as head coach, even in Sydney, immediately gave them that recognition and shared in his profile... That was the only saving grace from his hiring and was actually needed in this fickle city...
Any doubts were sort of absorbed into "Well, Vickerman is there", but little did we know how much Gaze would rely upon him or disregard him... Maybe it's just me going through the Harry Potter books again, but Gaze reminds me a lot of Cornelius Fudge... Not really up to the task initially, out of his depth, so he relies upon Dumbledore, until as time goes on, he believes his own hype that thinks he doesn't need that crutch anymore... It was clear during the games that Gaze was off on his own trip and seemed to brush DV off at times...
So enter this season... DV is back off to Melbourne, Shawn Dennis is in Japan, and we're stuck with a 2nd year coach who had a very rough end to his first season... They had their grace period, gave fans a taste of what winning was like and then back to their old ways...
You know what is the best marketing of all? WINNING. Especially in Sydney... Gaze was great to build the profile up again, was always charming at press conferences, even when we lost he always gave great snippets...
It doesn't look like this team is built to win...
JVG has to take full responsibility, shocking decisions full stop. I have no idea what was going through his mind when putting together this team....makes no sense at all, which ever way you look at it.
He does, and during tonights AussieHoopla said the plan was to bring in a much higher calibre impot big around now, but that got nixed due to the Lisch situation, but hopefully that will come in soon... Still doesn't explain getting Leslie in over a proper PG though...