SA Footy

Ayres to coach Port Melbourne

From the Herald-Sun
Reported by Daryl Timms

FORMER Geelong and Adelaide coach Gary Ayres will coach Port Melbourne in the VFL for the next two years.

Ayres, an assistant coach at Essendon for the past two seasons, accepted the job yesterday.

He replaces Saade Ghazi, who did not have his contract renewed, despite coaching Port into the finals this year.

Ayres was not offered an assistant coaching role by new Essendon coach Matthew Knights, who wanted the former Hawthorn champion to accept a full-time opposition analysis role.

But Ayres said last night he was over-qualified for the job and still had ambitions of coaching a senior AFL side. "I was happy to stay at Essendon if there was another coaching job there," he said.



... he still thinks he can coach at AFL level? Help us all!

What he thinks is irrelevant. The clubs all seem to disagree with him.

Mr Ayres your time has past @ that level !!!

Regardless it is quite a good pick up for Port Melbourne.

But you are right, he has no future in the AFL as a head coach

Mr Ayres your time has past @ that level !!!

Why the Mr. ?

maybe AYRES should be drug tested

If Matty Knights can get a senior job, then there is hope for Ayres yet.

pafc1870 wrote:If Matty Knights can get a senior job, then there is hope for Ayres yet.

That is so true and also he might end up back at hawthorn

pafc1870 wrote:If Matty Knights can get a senior job, then there is hope for Ayres yet.

Knights

Well, there's a lot of opinions out there. Your Spiderblus, your strawb07s, your pafc1870s, your mightytiger79s, your benchwarmers, your knee petersons, your pups, your bluboys, your smacs, your ..., your ....

I'm waiting to be approached rog - should get a better contract that way.

This belongs in the "Best Jokes" thread I reckon...nuff said!

Ayres = Tool.

Get a haircut too champ.

The opinions in this thread are pretty much unanimous!