Opinion Sack Hinkley 5 - Lower The Blinds

[tribey]

I heard Whateley yesterday getting stuck into “the fans”. Saying, they would sack the coach two or three times every year and that the club can’t be reacting to what they want.

The same Gerard Whateley who on 360 (22/08/19) launched this unprecedented attack on long-suffering Port fans in the aftermath of the upset belting at the hands of North Melbourne (Ben Brown kicked 10 while Dougal Howard languished in the reserves), resulting in missing the eight, meaning 5 full years without a solitary finals win:

“I think, the people around Port Adelaide, and I’ll separate them from the club themselves, the people around Port Adelaide need to calm the farm a bit.

You can wish and hope and think and pray that you should be making finals, and then you can coldly assess what’s happened against what the planning was and you can go, ‘this is exactly where we should be. we are on a path, we are a fair way down the path’.

You want to see where the path leads? Sit tight. Stop the agitation. Stop the unrest. Stop this ridiculous idea that you’re this old SANFL club that should rule the world. That’s not you. That’s not you in the AFL. You scratch and you claw for everything that you’re worth. And you put a plan in place and you follow that plan through.

The plan is, go to the draft, get a critical mass of young players, integrate them, have a good season — this is a good season, this is a clear pass, a clear pass what they have done — it improves next year on a natural trajectory.

And then you make your judgements. You’ve got a coach who’s got a trigger in his contract next year, so if they don’t make the finals and you think they should, then we say ‘thanks, I don’t think that path is going to lead us to where we’re going’.

There are clubs who have walked this path, they’ve got to the crossroads, and they’ve gone ‘do you know what? we actually believe in what we’re doing here. on we go’. And those clubs have profited enormously from it.”

I’ve never, ever, come across another example of an otherwise ‘neutral’ media identity prepared to editorialise so aggressively on behalf of a failing head coach before or since — not least at the expense of a fanbase. It’s just unreal how Port Nation is treated in the media as a whole:

• Not allowed to expect success (“delusional”).
• Not allowed to demand success (“it’s not the SANFL”)
• Not allowed to expect accountability (“you’d sack the coach every other week”).
• Not allowed to feel footy fatigue or merely choose something other than football in general (Steve Price once mocked us for ‘only’ getting 36,000 to AO against a lowly Brisbane outfit on a Saturday afternoon).
• Not allowed to protest failure (“calm your farm, stop the agitation”).
• Not allowed to vote with their feet (“they’re killing the club, here come the tarps”).

Just a mob of mindless orcs who are expected to keep paying their memberships and lobbing up to games regardless of the sh¡t sandwiches constantly served up year-on-year — even during ‘good’ years when we’re supposed to be contenders.

If Hinkley served up the exact same tenure for a Victorian club, he’d have been torn limb from limb and catapulted into Port Philip Bay for 2015-2019, let alone the past 5 weeks and what that means going forward.

 

[philreich]

Just waiting for Charlie Dixon

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Charlie Dixon

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34

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200cm

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110kg

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Fwd

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11.7

3star

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6.9

3star

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4.7

3star

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4.0

4star

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2.2

4star

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1.6

5star

D

10.5

3star

K

7.0

3star

HB

3.5

2star

M

5.0

5star

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1.5

2star

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2.5

5star

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8.2

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4.4

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0.8

4star

to make another plea to Port fans to "stick with us, and stop being so negative".

Come on Charles - surely when your team doesn't score their first goal until moments before 3/4 time, we're allowed to express negative thoughts.

As for Hinkley's claim, "We can still play finals", let me just say that I sometimes stand on the tee and say to myself, "This is the hole where I score my first ever hole in one." It hasn't happened yet, but I fully expect it to happen soon........

 

[Us against the rest]

The same Gerard Whateley who on 360 (22/08/19) launched this unprecedented attack on long-suffering Port fans in the aftermath of the upset belting at the hands of North Melbourne (Ben Brown kicked 10 while Dougal Howard languished in the reserves), resulting in missing the eight, meaning 5 full years without a solitary finals win:

“I think, the people around Port Adelaide, and I’ll separate them from the club themselves, the people around Port Adelaide need to calm the farm a bit.

You can wish and hope and think and pray that you should be making finals, and then you can coldly assess what’s happened against what the planning was and you can go, ‘this is exactly where we should be. we are on a path, we are a fair way down the path’.

You want to see where the path leads? Sit tight. Stop the agitation. Stop the unrest. Stop this ridiculous idea that you’re this old SANFL club that should rule the world. That’s not you. That’s not you in the AFL. You scratch and you claw for everything that you’re worth. And you put a plan in place and you follow that plan through.

The plan is, go to the draft, get a critical mass of young players, integrate them, have a good season — this is a good season, this is a clear pass, a clear pass what they have done — it improves next year on a natural trajectory.

And then you make your judgements. You’ve got a coach who’s got a trigger in his contract next year, so if they don’t make the finals and you think they should, then we say ‘thanks, I don’t think that path is going to lead us to where we’re going’.

There are clubs who have walked this path, they’ve got to the crossroads, and they’ve gone ‘do you know what? we actually believe in what we’re doing here. on we go’. And those clubs have profited enormously from it.”

I’ve never, ever, come across another example of an otherwise ‘neutral’ media identity prepared to editorialise so aggressively on behalf of a failing head coach before or since — not least at the expense of a fanbase. It’s just unreal how Port Nation is treated in the media as a whole:

• Not allowed to expect success (“delusional”).
• Not allowed to demand success (“it’s not the SANFL”)
• Not allowed to expect accountability (“you’d sack the coach every other week”).
• Not allowed to feel footy fatigue or merely choose something other than football in general (Steve Price once mocked us for ‘only’ getting 36,000 to AO against a lowly Brisbane outfit on a Saturday afternoon).
• Not allowed to protest failure (“calm your farm, stop the agitation”).
• Not allowed to vote with their feet (“they’re killing the club, here come the tarps”).

Just a mob of mindless orcs who are expected to keep paying their memberships and lobbing up to games regardless of the sh¡t sandwiches constantly served up year-on-year — even during ‘good’ years when we’re supposed to be contenders.

If Hinkley served up the exact same tenure for a Victorian club, he’d have been torn limb from limb and catapulted into Port Philip Bay for 2015-2019, let alone the past 5 weeks and what that means going forward.

This is our life as Port supporters, well they will not get a cent from me until they remove the viruses from my club.

 

[Del165198]

If Hinkley served up the exact same tenure for a Victorian club, he’d have been torn limb from limb and catapulted into Port Philip Bay for 2015-2019, let alone the past 5 weeks and what that means going forward.

Catapult ken into the gulf of St Vincent

 

[Garibaldi Red]

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This is what happens when everyone gets participation medals

 

[Garibaldi Red]

He agrees now?

I don’t listen to his radio show on SEN but I have read that he was defending him again this morning.
Mustve slept on it after the phone call last night.

 

[tribey]

This is what happens when everyone gets participation medals

Reading some of the takes from 20-something fans on socials, I’ve personally underestimated how many we picked up post-Footy Park, and how the (former) reality of a ruthless, proud, successful Port Adelaide is completely foreign to them.

 

[kdavva]

One thing I've been thinking is that this is the best snapshot we're gonna get of what the team will be like in 2 years time when we have no Gray and probably no Dixon. It's the clearest indication that Hinkley is not the future.

 

[PowerBaz]

Did he play under a Ken?

 

[Capital Power]

This thread now averaging around 1,000 posts a week. Chief should give us all a badge for the biggest contribution to BF advertising revenue.

 

[Thunderer]

The same Gerard Whateley who on 360 (22/08/19) launched this unprecedented attack on long-suffering Port fans in the aftermath of the upset belting at the hands of North Melbourne (Ben Brown kicked 10 while Dougal Howard languished in the reserves), resulting in missing the eight, meaning 5 full years without a solitary finals win:

“I think, the people around Port Adelaide, and I’ll separate them from the club themselves, the people around Port Adelaide need to calm the farm a bit.

You can wish and hope and think and pray that you should be making finals, and then you can coldly assess what’s happened against what the planning was and you can go, ‘this is exactly where we should be. we are on a path, we are a fair way down the path’.

You want to see where the path leads? Sit tight. Stop the agitation. Stop the unrest. Stop this ridiculous idea that you’re this old SANFL club that should rule the world. That’s not you. That’s not you in the AFL. You scratch and you claw for everything that you’re worth. And you put a plan in place and you follow that plan through.

The plan is, go to the draft, get a critical mass of young players, integrate them, have a good season — this is a good season, this is a clear pass, a clear pass what they have done — it improves next year on a natural trajectory.

And then you make your judgements. You’ve got a coach who’s got a trigger in his contract next year, so if they don’t make the finals and you think they should, then we say ‘thanks, I don’t think that path is going to lead us to where we’re going’.

There are clubs who have walked this path, they’ve got to the crossroads, and they’ve gone ‘do you know what? we actually believe in what we’re doing here. on we go’. And those clubs have profited enormously from it.”

I’ve never, ever, come across another example of an otherwise ‘neutral’ media identity prepared to editorialise so aggressively on behalf of a failing head coach before or since — not least at the expense of a fanbase. It’s just unreal how Port Nation is treated in the media as a whole:

• Not allowed to expect success (“delusional”).
• Not allowed to demand success (“it’s not the SANFL”)
• Not allowed to expect accountability (“you’d sack the coach every other week”).
• Not allowed to feel footy fatigue or merely choose something other than football in general (Steve Price once mocked us for ‘only’ getting 36,000 to AO against a lowly Brisbane outfit on a Saturday afternoon).
• Not allowed to protest failure (“calm your farm, stop the agitation”).
• Not allowed to vote with their feet (“they’re killing the club, here come the tarps”).

Just a mob of mindless orcs who are expected to keep paying their memberships and lobbing up to games regardless of the sh¡t sandwiches constantly served up year-on-year — even during ‘good’ years when we’re supposed to be contenders.

If Hinkley served up the exact same tenure for a Victorian club, he’d have been torn limb from limb and catapulted into Port Philip Bay for 2015-2019, let alone the past 5 weeks and what that means going forward.

Post of the Year.

Well written, to the point and perfectly encapsulates the whole situation.

Oh and Sack Hinkley.

 

[Kingfish73]

Tonight was nothing. Next week will be the real bloodbath.

Carlton are hungry as f###. Melbourne did a training drill last night. Carlton will absolutely destroy this decrepit selfish individual.

He is instructing the entire playing group and coaches to limit damage for HIS own so called reputation...nothing about making us better. And dumb fu##s like Koch just let it happen. Speechless really

 

[WhyAlwaysMe]

The same Gerard Whateley who on 360 (22/08/19) launched this unprecedented attack on long-suffering Port fans in the aftermath of the upset belting at the hands of North Melbourne (Ben Brown kicked 10 while Dougal Howard languished in the reserves), resulting in missing the eight, meaning 5 full years without a solitary finals win:

“I think, the people around Port Adelaide, and I’ll separate them from the club themselves, the people around Port Adelaide need to calm the farm a bit.

You can wish and hope and think and pray that you should be making finals, and then you can coldly assess what’s happened against what the planning was and you can go, ‘this is exactly where we should be. we are on a path, we are a fair way down the path’.

You want to see where the path leads? Sit tight. Stop the agitation. Stop the unrest. Stop this ridiculous idea that you’re this old SANFL club that should rule the world. That’s not you. That’s not you in the AFL. You scratch and you claw for everything that you’re worth. And you put a plan in place and you follow that plan through.

The plan is, go to the draft, get a critical mass of young players, integrate them, have a good season — this is a good season, this is a clear pass, a clear pass what they have done — it improves next year on a natural trajectory.

And then you make your judgements. You’ve got a coach who’s got a trigger in his contract next year, so if they don’t make the finals and you think they should, then we say ‘thanks, I don’t think that path is going to lead us to where we’re going’.

There are clubs who have walked this path, they’ve got to the crossroads, and they’ve gone ‘do you know what? we actually believe in what we’re doing here. on we go’. And those clubs have profited enormously from it.”

I’ve never, ever, come across another example of an otherwise ‘neutral’ media identity prepared to editorialise so aggressively on behalf of a failing head coach before or since — not least at the expense of a fanbase. It’s just unreal how Port Nation is treated in the media as a whole:

• Not allowed to expect success (“delusional”).
• Not allowed to demand success (“it’s not the SANFL”)
• Not allowed to expect accountability (“you’d sack the coach every other week”).
• Not allowed to feel footy fatigue or merely choose something other than football in general (Steve Price once mocked us for ‘only’ getting 36,000 to AO against a lowly Brisbane outfit on a Saturday afternoon).
• Not allowed to protest failure (“calm your farm, stop the agitation”).
• Not allowed to vote with their feet (“they’re killing the club, here come the tarps”).

Just a mob of mindless orcs who are expected to keep paying their memberships and lobbing up to games regardless of the sh¡t sandwiches constantly served up year-on-year — even during ‘good’ years when we’re supposed to be contenders.

If Hinkley served up the exact same tenure for a Victorian club, he’d have been torn limb from limb and catapulted into Port Philip Bay for 2015-2019, let alone the past 5 weeks and what that means going forward.

I ****ing hate this weasel. Go put your wife in a horse mask, put on your gimp costume and jerk off to Winx.

 

[pastmyprimus]

Large parts of the media are trying to protect Hinkley. But it won't be enough. I honestly think he's a dead man walking

 

[Windy Cindy]

I genuinly dont think he tried to win last night

i think he just tried to limit the damage

that is disgraceful

 

[StrappingTape]

Large parts of the media are trying to protect Hinkley. But it won't be enough. I honestly think he's a dead man walking

A big loss to Carlton and there will be less than 20k at the next home game. We will be close to losing in revenue what it takes to sack him before we've ever had half this season's home games.

 

[bomberclifford]

Melbourne did a training drill last night.

Watching Viney and Gawn do a post mach interview one could be forgiven for thinking they spent most of the game on the bench. Looked like they didn't even break a sweat.

 

[Mikey13G]

Did he play under a Ken?

Yes! He was delisted at the end of the 2014 season.

First time in 575 AFL games that Port has failed to to kick a goal in the first half. Heads need to roll over this performance. A couple of junk time goals in the 4th quarter by Motlop made the score look better than what it really was. I remember at one stage Rozee had the ball about 75m away from the goal and he literally didn't know what to do as there was nobody in front of him.

 

[edgie]

That's the 2nd ex player to comment..

Surely that's a sign that the playing group isn't happy and os telling their mates

It's probably more the players that got privileged to see the other side of uncle Kenny.

You know, the players who aren't Dixon or Boak or Jonas or Kornes.

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[Alberton Proud]

Even Kane Korner has jumped off

https://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/port-adelaides-historic-afl-embarrassment-absolutely-savaged/news-story/e524264078fdd6e0d43a163559d2c7bc

 

[edgie]

If we had a PM that keeps making bad decisions for Australia (ScoMo) would they reelect him after 10 years or vote for someone new.

It's just common sense.

We are nearly ten years in to this liberal government. Not a great example.

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[Alberton Proud]

23,058 last night

There'll be 15k for Wet Toast in two weeks

 

[JimmyBC]

Ken's contract into 2023 is dependant on results.. at least according to Wildy, so the blinds are down on that already unless scraping into finals (lol not likely) is a pass mark.

 

[pastmyprimus]

A big loss to Carlton and there will be less than 20k at the next home game. We will be close to losing in revenue what it takes to sack him before we've ever had half this season's home games.

Yeah, the pressure is definitely mounting. Losing $ is a big motivation for clubs to sack their coaches.

 

[Alyx]