Article in the Australian - re GA

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I heard this guy being interviewed on 5AA tonight about this article that he wrote...

Ayres granted stay
By Greg Denham
May 4, 2004

ADELAIDE has given embattled coach Gary Ayres at least another three rounds before making any decision on whether to honour his contract until the end of the season.

Ayres, whose second Adelaide contract runs out at the end of the year, is in trouble after a one-win, five-loss start this year. The team faces arch-rivals Port Adelaide at AAMI Stadium on Saturday night.

Adelaide, sitting 14th, have lost the past seven clashes with Port and will start at long odds this weekend.

Port are third with just one loss for the year.

Crows chairman Bill Sanders yesterday denied Ayres' tentative hold on his position had been discussed at board level.

"We normally meet Gary two or three times a year in our normal course which will probably be again in about three weeks," Sanders said.

"At this stage there is no pressure on Gary from the Adelaide board."

Sanders, Adelaide's chief executive during the club's two premierships under Malcolm Blight, also denied reports on Sunday that upset Crows directors predicted a fallout with Ayres after their 43-point loss to Geelong.

"We've got to be prepared to hold our nerve," Sanders said. "We've got to be prepared to ride out the storm."

Adelaide assistant coach Neil Craig, who rejected an offer from West Coast to replace Ken Judge at the end of 2001, is "no formality" to eventually replace Ayres, according to a senior Crows source yesterday.

Ayres was more concerned with Saturday's derby, saying he expected cross-Adelaide rivalry to be enough to lift the "mental hardness" of his players.

"I personally can't do much different," Ayres said.

"The players and the coaching staff have got to be united to dig us all out of a hole.

"I told the playing group today to take responsibility for their actions. Over the past four weeks we've been okay, we could have won two or three games."

Adelaide yesterday vowed not to drop veteran forward Wayne Carey for the game, despite a below-par performance against the Cats.


He didnt seem to have any real information to base this on, but was obviously looking at the Crows performances and the fact that he is going to meet with the board in about 3 weeks as the basis for his "opinion".

I wonder how the AFC will respond, if they will even bother!

Of course you can probably guess KG's reaction to this! And of course Cornsey's reaction was based on his usual semantics about things can be interpreted etc
 

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There is no way known that AFC will give Ayres the arse midseason or should they.

They might let him know before the year's end that he will not coach next year so he will have the option to either walk out or stick out the year alal Robert Shaw BUT that is different to giveing him the arse and moving him on mid-season.

Jurnos are a really weird bunch.
 

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I'd say he would be a Victorian, writing AFL for the Australian.

I cant see Gary going b4 the end of the season, although if the team looks like finishing bottom four or thereabouts, I think there could be an announcemet one way or the other about him not continuing after this season, before the season is over.
 

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I heard that dork talking on 5AA.

He couldn't see anything wrong with saying that Ayres was safe for at least the next 3 weeks until the next board meeting, which as KG said, implies the reverse may be the case after that board meeting.

The irksome point was that KG kept asking him why he didn't say that the board have stated that no decision will be made on Ayres future until after the end of the season.

All he would say was that he's said that many times in other articles, so there was no need to say it in this one - a stance that he wouldn't budge on. KG disagreed strongly because of the 3 week implication in this article.

It was actually quite frightening to hear this dork representing the national media. It's in very poor hands if he's a representative sample of it.
 

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Probably the same bloke that wrote that crap about rape allegations about a women in Adelaide night clubs from 2 different AFL sides or something like that. Anyone remember that bloke's inteview on 5AA?????? An absolute tool.
 

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Originally posted by dezzmo
I wonder how the AFC will respond, if they will even bother!
Perhaps they can send a delegate to talk to the Australian's CEO. Although this would have to come after the delegate drops into his kids school to chastise the teacher that gave his son a B in Phys Ed. :rolleyes:

Seriously, the only response to this sort of trash is no response.
 
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