Ayres returns to AAMI

[bigman]

Gary Ayres makes his return to AAMI this week.

I call on all Adelaide supporters to treat him with respect and not the cowardly way the Geelong supporters treated him when he returned to SHell Stadium each year.

Ayres tried his best for Adelaide and if not was not due to the loss of Edwards and Macca in the Prelimiary Final we could have been looking at a Grand Final Coach in 2003.

Ayres made the Crows a competitive outfit for much of his time at the club. He made the Crows a tough competitive side week in week out for most of his reign and certainly on the road.

In the end he ran his race with no cigar.

Lets hope we recognise this rather than giving cheap verbal shots to the man who gave his all for the club for 6 years. We are a better club than this. Lets show the rest of Australia the fine culture we have at the AFC and the fact that we appreciate the work that has been done by people in the past to help make this side what it is today.

 

[Alex99]

Gary Ayres makes his return to AAMI this week.

I call on all Adelaide supporters to treat him with respect and not the cowardly way the Geelong supporters treated him when he returned to SHell Stadium each year.

Ayres tried his best for Adelaide and if not was not due to the loss of Edwards and Macca in the Prelimiary Final we could have been looking at a Grand Final Coach in 2003.

Ayres made the Crows a competitive outfit for much of his time at the club. He made the Crows a tough competitive side week in week out for most of his reign and certainly on the road.

In the end he ran his race with no cigar.

Lets hope we recognise this rather than giving cheap verbal shots to the man who gave his all for the club for 6 years. We are a better club than this. Lets show the rest of Australia the fine culture we have at the AFC and the fact that we appreciate the work that has been done by people in the past to help make this side what it is today.

Good call.

 

[macca23]

Totaly agree.

He did some really good work in his first 3 years and deserves some respect for that.

 

[Leaping Lindner]

Well said!

 

[maccas_no1]

Have to agree.

 

[Stiffy_18]

Gary Ayres makes his return to AAMI this week.

I call on all Adelaide supporters to treat him with respect and not the cowardly way the Geelong supporters treated him when he returned to SHell Stadium each year.

Ayres tried his best for Adelaide and if not was not due to the loss of Edwards and Macca in the Prelimiary Final we could have been looking at a Grand Final Coach in 2003.

Ayres made the Crows a competitive outfit for much of his time at the club. He made the Crows a tough competitive side week in week out for most of his reign and certainly on the road.

In the end he ran his race with no cigar.

Lets hope we recognise this rather than giving cheap verbal shots to the man who gave his all for the club for 6 years. We are a better club than this. Lets show the rest of Australia the fine culture we have at the AFC and the fact that we appreciate the work that has been done by people in the past to help make this side what it is today.

Great call mate

 

[- PC -]

At the end of the day ....

 

[Drummond]

I can't stand the man. I won’t boo or make a scene, but I cannot stand him.

 

[WaynesWorld19]

I can't stand the man. I won’t boo or make a scene, but I cannot stand him.

You don't know him so you can't make that call - be a bit more mature FFS it's football mate just football.

 

[Gets!]

Posting things like this is just pointless.

There will be 45,000 at the game on friday who have never even heard of Big Footy.

 

[marvin]

Posting things like this is just pointless.

There will be 45,000 at the game on friday who have never even heard of Big Footy.

True, though would Ayres return even be a blip on the radar for most?

He left because his contract was not renewed. Just like Robert Shaw. It's not like when he left Geelong with time left to serve. He's also had a year out of the coaches box, and a demotion to assistant coach, like Shaw.

I haven't seen Shaw cop much on his returns to Footy Park. I don't expect it to be any different for Ayres on Friday.

 

[bigman]

True, though would Ayres return even be a blip on the radar for most?

He left because his contract was not renewed. Just like Robert Shaw. It's not like when he left Geelong with time left to serve. He's also had a year out of the coaches box, and a demotion to assistant coach, like Shaw.

I haven't seen Shaw cop much on his returns to Footy Park. I don't expect it to be any different for Ayres on Friday.

Lets hope this is the case.

 

[- PC -]

Yet it was ok to boo Stenglein?

 

[bigman]

Yet it was ok to boo Stenglein?

Not at all.

He gave us 6 years of good service, before he returned home.

Same with Sugar - a fine servant of the club

Watts is another matter!

 

[maccas_no1]

Yet it was ok to boo Stenglein?

Never known anyone to Boo Stenglien

I'd boo Fergus to my hearts content when that lil maggot returns

 

[RogerRabbit69]

There were a few who booed Stenglein when he was back in Adelaide - but they were definitely in the minority.

 

[- PC -]

Never known anyone to Boo Stenglien

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Neil Craig encouraged supporters to boo Stenglein if they wanted to... I can go back and search threads on this very topic before round 1 last year

 

[Gets!]

People can boo who they want to.

Simple as that.

 

[Mad Dog]

Good call Bigman....

Intereting isn't it given the discussion on other threads - if only some of our supporters put as much effort into supporting OUR guys as they do booing the likes of Ayres, Shaw, Stinger, etc.....

 

[marvin]

Neil Craig encouraged supporters to boo Stenglein if they wanted to... I can go back and search threads on this very topic before round 1 last year

I did it for you. The only time Craig was reported to have encouraged supporters to boo Stenglein was on 6PR, and from what you posted at the time:

Heres one for all those booers...he was asked about Tyson Stenglein and the reports about booing etc. His line was he hoped the Adelaide crowd got a bit more involved and if they booed so be it. He would rather they boo the opposition than cheer them. He did say that he had a lot of respect for Tyson when he was with Adelaide and will always rate him...but boo him at the coaches agreement.
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Hardly a Sheedy-esque call to arms, really - and if he really did want to encourage Crows supporters to come and boo Stinger, he would have chosen a different forum than 6PR.

I remember Goody saying that Stinger was going to be roughed up a bit. Of course, he wasn't playing.

 

[Thunderstruck]

Great call mate but I think you mean 2002

Certainly no need for him to be booed and abused by typical unsavourvy types but no doubt that it will happen.

 

[tribey]

Brought us back from the smoking hole in the ground we were in when Blight left.

Much is made of him failing to take us to a flag (2003 was a bigger disappointment than 2002, IMO) and his one bad year in 2004, but he righted the ship in a period when we could've gone backwards into a Damien Drum/Ken Judge-esque slump and for that we can only be thankful.

 

[Stiffy_18]

Brought us back from the smoking hole in the ground we were in when Blight left.

Much is made of him failing to take us to a flag (2003 was a bigger disappointment than 2002, IMO) and his one bad year in 2004, but he righted the ship in a period when we could've gone backwards into a Damien Drum/Ken Judge-esque slump and for that we can only be thankful.

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People forget what Ayres took over and how he formed a very competative outfit on the field. He had his shotcomings but you always knew that we will have a crack under Ayres.

 

[passamore]

After the events of the weekend at the Telefone Dome I would hope no one gets into a verbal with Gary.

 

[RogerRabbit69]

Rucci took legal action against Gary Ayres after he called him a liar, didn't he Passamore?