Opinion Sack Hinkley 5 - Lower The Blinds

[LittleLika]

 

[Magpiespowaz]

Ken clearly watched The Club again this week to prep for the game, mostly the post-match presser...



The campaigner ain't no Laurie Holden tho, not in a million years, nope...

 

[Duck Farmer]

I've said it before, don't sack him until he breaks the AFL record for most games coached without making a GF.

He at least deserves that.

 

[port_adelaide_1870]

love Kenny’s spin, he’s desperate to keep his job, realistically though let’s say we can discover some form again, I think at best we will still only be 2 and 8 come round 10 (losing to saints, bulldogs and Geelong). At best may beat one of saints or Bulldogs but you’re still 3 wins come round 10. That’s season over. It’s over already.

Play the youngsters Kenny, that’s the least you can do for us. Help the next coach and put AFL games into the current young players on our list. Stop with the likes of Dumont and Motlop, and start to bring in Sinn, Burgoyne, Schofield etc

 

[Us against the rest]

My only fear at the moment is losing Sam Powell-Pepper, I could not care about losing anyone else.

Sack Hinkley

He's been our most consistent player this season and looks like he really wants to win.

 

[Us against the rest]

Round 15-ish to round 20 if it's an in season parting of the ways imo.

He's gone at the end of the year regardless it's just whether they have balls to do it earlier or old mate sees the writing on the wall & lowers his blinds.

When it's impossible to make finals, or he see's out 2023

 

[Us against the rest]

At this stage in proceedings maybe we need to fit an energy polariser in the coaches box

I would rather an ejection seat or self destruct button.

 

[Chewy316]

I've said it before, don't sack him until he breaks the AFL record for most games coached without making a GF.

He at least deserves that.

That record is equally reflective on the club. I don't want the club to hold that record. Heck, I don't want Ken to coach another game for the club at this point.

 

[pastmyprimus]

I’m not that fussed by what Ken says. Coaches in his position always go with the positive spin. It’s irrelevant to a large extent as they are the just the final words of a desperate man.

 

[VineValerian]

Round 15-ish to round 20 if it's an in season parting of the ways imo.

He's gone at the end of the year regardless it's just whether they have balls to do it earlier or old mate sees the writing on the wall & lowers his blinds.

I reckon they keep going until it's mathematically impossible to make the finals ie. say we win half a dozen games and get to around the 6 - 12 mark and a poor percentage.

Then they can pull the pin in the knowledge that:
1. they only have to pay out 6 months of his remaining contract,
2. finals are undeniably unachievable,
3. they have given him every possible chance to get the finals sugar hit and not succeeded, and
4. we get in before the end of the season so we can speak to other prospective coaches first.

Ticks every box from their perspective really.

 

[PeacefulWarrior]

Hinkley to Mooney at qtr time:wants the players to "understand work rate required to play AFL football".
That's all he's got, work hardery for longery. What an absolute shit stain on our Club.

I understand your point but Hinkley was right about that.

Their work rate in the first quarter was abhorrent, reeked of a team bereft of confidence and that hasn’t “bought in” the coach’s plan

They ply like they’re in shackles, no instinct, indecisive with no killer instinct.

 

[philreich]

I've said it before, don't sack him until he breaks the AFL record for most games coached without making a GF.

He at least deserves that.

It'd be poetic - a 100 point loss on the ground where he played his home games.

 

[Garibaldi Red]

I would rather an ejection seat or self destruct button.

To attract a crowd, maybe they could randomly hand out a few hundred remote controls to those attending. Only one works, so you would make a number of people really happy thinking they pulled the trigger.

Only downside is if a Happy Clapper got the live remote.

 

[mynameissilver]

love Kenny’s spin, he’s desperate to keep his job, realistically though let’s say we can discover some form again, I think at best we will still only be 2 and 8 come round 10 (losing to saints, bulldogs and Geelong).

I don't think he is desperate to keep his job. He might be pushing the 'making the finals' crap out of trying to sound positive but I can sense he knows his time is up and like you said its just spin.. I reckon he is already thinking about whats next. I'd be surprised if he doesn't pull the pin once finals are out of the question. He will want to go before he gets pushed.

 

[Saltiga]

As it stands Koch has probably not even had 'the conversation' with Ken. In light of the poor start to 2022 and the likelihood of missing the finals you would think that Koch has had a chat with Ken about his long term future at Alberton. Given Koch's support for Ken that is unlikely to have happened and is more likely to happen near the second half of 2022.

Reading Mark Robinson's column this morning and Robinson has taken exactly the same line as we would expect Koch to take. Namely, yesterday's fight back proves that Hinkley has not lost the players etc.

I was shocked at the fight back and tend to agree that hinkley hasn't lost the players but regardless of whether he's lost the players or not, he still needs to go.

 

[Power Girl]

I don't think he is desperate to keep his job. He might be pushing the 'making the finals' crap out of trying to sound positive but I can sense he knows his time is up and like you said its just spin.. I reckon he is already thinking about whats next. I'd be surprised if he doesn't pull the pin once finals are out of the question. He will want to go before he gets pushed.

Yes he strikes me as someone who will use a flimsy excuse but he will not be pushed out even though technically he will be

edit: also he may not be desperate to keep his job but he seems like he would like to keep his pay for as long as possible.

 

[Us against the rest]

I reckon they keep going until it's mathematically impossible to make the finals ie. say we win half a dozen games and get to around the 6 - 12 mark and a poor percentage.

Then they can pull the pin in the knowledge that:
1. they only have to pay out 6 months of his remaining contract,
2. finals are undeniably unachievable,
3. they have given him every possible chance to get the finals sugar hit and not succeeded, and
4. we get in before the end of the season so we can speak to other prospective coaches first.

Ticks every box from their perspective really.

For Koch it will be like one of his kids leaving home.

 

[philreich]

Once he's gone, we should play our first game after his departure in the prison bars, to celebrate the start of a new era.

 

[Us against the rest]

In my opinion now that Hinkley has had a taste of the big time, he wont willingly go unless he has some where to go.

I wonder if GC still want him.

 

[Power Girl]

In my opinion now that Hinkley has had a taste of the big time he wont, willingly go unless he has some where to go.

I wonder if GC still want him.

I doubt the Aldinga Sharks want him.

 

[Chewy316]

Do you remember when Ken said he didn't want the sugar hit of finals? Now forget about contending for a premiership, old Kenneth is now talking about just making finals, the very sugar hit he didn't want a few years ago when they missed finals 4 out of 5 years (at the conclusion of the 2019 season).

We should give.his payout in slabs of coke rather than a monetary figure. Ken can have all the sugar hits he wants then.

 

[mynameissilver]

In my opinion now that Hinkley has had a taste of the big time, he wont willingly go unless he has some where to go.

I wonder if GC still want him.

We might all laugh our socks off but it wouldn't surprise me at all if another AFL club, perhaps in rebuild, makes inquiries.

 

[JimmyBC]

In my opinion now that Hinkley has had a taste of the big time, he wont willingly go unless he has some where to go.

He has got somewhere to go, he can go and get fukced.

 

[wannabejack]

 

[Port_Girl_92]

Press Conf tomorrow at 3pm.

Here it is.

The extension we've all been waiting for.