Injuries under Sando

[weneverland]

Robert Shaw

Malcolm Blight

Although technically, didn't the AFC pinch both Shaw and Ayres from their previous employers by before they could be sacked?

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Not an Adelaide team he didn't - the team he coached to a GF (Geelong, 1995) had already been there 3 times in the previous 6 years (1989, 1992, 1994). Robert Shaw could have coached that Cats side to a GF.

Neither Shaw, nor Craig, succeeded in taking an Adelaide team to a Grand Final.

In Ayres' favour, he was the first coach to make Adelaide a regular finals participant.

IMO, Craig prepared the players better, but Ayres was a better match day coach (though nothing on Blight).