When Gould brought Maloney over to the Panthers for two years to mentor their young halves, he'd won a premiership barely a year earlier, and another 4 years earlier.
In terms of bringing over a quality experienced half to mentor blokes like Burton, Avo, Wakeham, Flanno... Pearce has played and lost what, 2 finals games in the last 5 seasons? Brooks hasn't even played finals games.
No thanks to either of them. It needed to be Adam Reynolds or someone with similar level experience.
Given we aren't going to be able to get someone like that to join the squad for 2022, how about signing Maloney on as a halves coach? He is fresh off the pitch, let's get him or someone in a similar position to do the job of mentoring our halves from off the field, and Barrett can focus on the head coach role.