“We’re really excited to be back,” Speakman said. “With Regis, we’ve got a really thoughtful, diligent and detailed coach – tactically really astute. Everything he’ll be doing will be geared towards developing the group, the team, individuals and winning games.

“Acquiring a head coach is always a complex process but it would be remiss of us not to admit that our comms wasn’t great over the summer. That wasn’t intention, the plan was to go out early with information, that became difficult with how the process went. Even when Kyril made that statement in June, it was weeks before we we able to concluded the deal and announce Regis. We’ll certainly try to improve that and we really the patience [of the fans].