Although technically, didn't the AFC pinch both Shaw and Ayres from their previous employers by before they could be sacked?Robert Shaw
Malcolm Blight
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Although technically, didn't the AFC pinch both Shaw and Ayres from their previous employers by before they could be sacked?Robert Shaw
Malcolm Blight
IMO, Craig prepared the players better, but Ayres was a better match day coach (though nothing on Blight).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.