Gary Ayres

[sharpie]

No wonder the crows were crap with him as coach. His voice has to be about the most boring monotone ever in existence.

[liz]

Agreed, though he made some pertinent points (or one point, many times) about the Swans sometimes handballing just for the sake of it.

[stellation]

Originally posted by liz
Agreed, though he made some pertinent points (or one point, many times) about the Swans sometimes handballing just for the sake of it.

I think it was Ayres that suggested Davis handballed to McVeigh (who was subsequently tackled) just for the sake of it. He had just finished saying the Swans needed something positive down the middle, Davis took a mark and had a midfielder running past calling for the ball ( McVeigh took it cleanly and certainly wasn't caught by suprise ). I thought it was a cheap dig.

Edit: but apart from that he was spot on about it!

[Jeffers1984]

Gary Ayres is as boring as bat ****!

[liz]

But Ayres was right in that instance. Davis wasn't under much pressure and is a prodigious kick. We were two goals down with about 5 minutes to play and needed to be moving it quickly. So why a short handball to a stationary player in a crowd? Even if McVeigh had managed to hand it off, it is unlikely he'd have been able to do anything constructive with the ball.

[stellation]

If that is the case then I stand corrected, I thought McVeigh was running past Davis calling for the ball, not standing still in a crowd.

[Nico]

Originally posted by liz
But Ayres was right in that instance. Davis wasn't under much pressure and is a prodigious kick. We were two goals down with about 5 minutes to play and needed to be moving it quickly. So why a short handball to a stationary player in a crowd? Even if McVeigh had managed to hand it off, it is unlikely he'd have been able to do anything constructive with the ball.

There in lies the root of most evil in our side. "Give it off, give it off, I, I, I don't have the confidence to kick it myself, the game plan is screwing me up. Help me please. Will someone show me or teach me how to play direct footy. The midfield coach, where is he. What is going on here. I just want to play real footy. I think I need a psychiatrist. Who do I turn to, I feel like I am lost. I am sinking, someone pull me out of this mire".

[ROK Lobster]

Originally posted by stellation
If that is the case then I stand corrected, I thought McVeigh was running past Davis calling for the ball, not standing still in a crowd.

McVeigh was certainly on the move and looking for the ball.

[stellation]

Originally posted by ROK Lobster
McVeigh was certainly on the move and looking for the ball.

Then I go back to being of the view that it was a cheap dig (not that anyone would ever have a cheap dig at Nick). I appreciate he is a great kick, I'm there in the "I love Nicky D" club, but I still think that taking a mark and playing on quickly was the right thing to do.

McVeigh (who had a good game and deserved the chance for a big play) was on the move and if he had broken the lines (not that Nick was to know there was even a line to break, he had his back to the group that McVeigh ran into) he has quite a bit of toe... if there was only the key forward with his defender then the loose man filling the hole for said key forward to lead into the quick running midfielder down the middle (should) in theory draw the loose man towards him and free up space for the forward to lead into, with the midfielder in question being one of the few we have that could actually be relyed on to hit the forward on the chest. Didn't come off that way, pretty much nothing came off that way like we needed in the 2nd half.

If Nicky D had held the ball up and stepped back he was on the HBF, and if anyone could hit a target 70 metres off laces up it is Nick, so even if it didn't fall into the arms of the loose man in defence then that loose man in defence would have plenty of time to get back in the contest. Or the forward would have to lead out to the wing to try to avoid the loose man and if he marks well great, we need a goal and everyone is in the defensive half of the ground apart from the forward holding the ball 70-80 metres from goal looking for a lead. Or he could have gone back to the chip around kicking.

I am totally over analyzing one incident in a crap game. That is how frustrating the whole game was!

On another note, I thought Davis showed a few glimpses in this game (well in the first half!) of why he should be playing further up the field when fit. Faded out (like pretty much the rest of the team) in the second half, but considering his short pre-season and the heat of the day (and not being at the game it was hard to tell if Roosy was resting him on the bench as he was the other midfielders, going by the tele it seemed like he was just resting through the FP) that is probably to be expected through to Rd5 or so.

[pornstar]

Good afternoon all,

Well I would have to say that the Foxfooty coverage last night was as insipid as the game itself. Bad camera direction and camera work, and on top of that, terrible commentators, and the worst 'special comments' man going around, Gary 'I want my mullet back' Ayres!

Anyone who thinks he had anything insightful to say has seen little or no football. All he did was pose uninteresting summations of the previous 30 seconds play. If you look at someone like Dermie, who can be annoying, at least he shows some footy knowledge, whereas Ayres labored, and labored badly.

He is boring, and should be banished to the special comments in the VFL games.

Wayne Schwass was ok, and that other bloke, Matthew someone?? was average at best.

Another example of fox footy showing utter contempt for its viewers. If its not nine doing it, its foxfooty!!!

Yours truly

Pornstar

[swansrule100]

Originally posted by sharpie
No wonder the crows were crap with him as coach. His voice has to be about the most boring monotone ever in existence.

lmao and he seems to have some sort of throat problem he gets a struggle when he tries to make the words come out!


he may be insightful, but we will never know!