Credit where credit is due, Ayres coached Port Melbourne to the Premiership today breaking their 29 year drought. A huge effort with no AFL listed players to choose from, only the lads that he has brought on over the past seasons since he left Essendon and went to Port Melbourne in the Senior Coaching role.
Some talk about him returning to an AFL coaching role, good luck to him if he does. I hope the day comes when like Cornes he will be given some respect for what he did achieve at the AFC and the players that he brought through into the system. For whatever reason people seem to feel the need to trash the previous coach in order to build up the next coach, I do think its an area that a number of us need to have a look at to move the club forward in, instead of being stuck in the past all the time.