HARD NO!!!
He has basically zero coaching experience! I can't believe, out of every option out there, they pick the one who was shuffled out of his previous coaching roles, and is only part-time here!!! Is Penn actually joking?
There are so many better options
Brad Arthur
Josh Hannay
Matt King
Matt Ballin
John Morris
Literally any SL coach
But no... This idiot with zero experience!!!
Listen to his commentary for Panthers vs Titans and that should be enough to understand how poor he'll do as a coach. I genuinely don't think he's intelligent whatsoever. You need to have a depth of ideas as a coach, and this guy simply does not have it. He has a case of the Cherry-Evans - he uses big words to sound smart, but has no idea how or where to use them.
Seibold had prior successful coaching experience and had been through the wars at the Broncos. He's a genuinely intelligent person, and he might actually be too intelligent. Des was labelled "the mad professor", and began coaching in 2000 iirc. Four years later, he had his first gig, at a club reaching absolute rock bottom. Toovey was a club legend, who gained experience by being the apprentice of Des across that (premiership-winning) time period.
Point is, everyone of these people had been in a box. They understood coaching beyond just a few drills on Wednesday.
Compare it to Ennis.
If you doubt what I'm saying, why would he have a clue? He's never been a full-time assistant coach, or even a reserve grade coach. The point of his part-time role, is that he's never present on game day, so he can offer his "scintillating" commentary to Fox. Now you expect him to run the show in the box? Know when to sub off the players? Manage the staff? What suggests he is even capable of this?
Zero feedback from anyone, zero recommendations, probably costs $3, that's the story of our club. At least Seibold had some pedigree. This is just jamming the lever back to gear Barrett.
First spoon incoming.
