Don't be so hard on yourself
No need to stand corrected, no telling of Quennville would have done as good a job or better.
What can be said for sure at this point is that running any version of this team back out there with Gallant, Even if you made some changes around the margins, was not going to be successful.
If you have a shitty painter, you can get them all the brand new brushes you want to, they're still a shitty painter. And GG is shitty.