Opinion Sack Hinkley 5 - Lower The Blinds

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Launchpad McQuack said:
TL;DR: This is me living my life instead of being disappointed by Ports weekly.
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Personally, I can’t tell how much of it is me just ageing out, and how much of it is a disconnect of increasing [footy-]cultural marginalisation.

It’s gotten to the point where if Port found itself in a scenario similar to 2010/11, I’d almost be relieved as the decision would be made for me.

I mean, what’s the point?

We exist seemingly to make sure some smirking blow-in and his family remain employed and to keep the coffers jangling for the SMA, while Koch holds the club in his grip as a wellspring of personal prestige in perpetuity.

Even the players don’t seem particularly fussed about failure, with constant references to how beloved ‘Kenny’ is, and senior players like Ollie responding to the Prelim humiliation with soundbytes like, “it was still a successful year in terms of win/loss”.

Any talk of ambition, accountability or change is met with blatant gaslighting or defensive invitations to go elsewhere - and hordes of boomers, millennial apologists and gen-zedders are 100% onboard with this.

If contemporary and future Port Adelaide’s destiny is to merely be a Big Bashified mediocrity-cog in a money machine that enriches internal individuals and external, openly hostile organisations [‘we shut down the GDV because you’re all p¡ssed-up violent louts”, “no you can’t wear the prisonbar because we say so”], of what benefit is it to me to contribute time and money?
 
finbarr said:
I really don't care how various media scribes interpret the words coming from the club over the past few months. I am still firmly of the belief Hinkley won't be coaching Port in 2023.

That said, should the unthinkable happen and Hinkley is retained, i'm done for good. I kept my membership this year in the hope change will sweep through the club and i'll be back when we come out the other side. I don't attend games, but my membership is still there. But a strange thing has happened. I've found i don't really care anymore. Often i'll be out doing other things and arrive home to watch the game on tv around quarter time. Then i'll go walk the dog at half time and arrive home late in the third quarter or something. Footy has been surprisingly easy to walk away from and i'm more than happy to do it permanently. There's way more to life.
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I'm the same. Think my mates are there too now.
Missed half the home games this year and it doesn't bother me one bit. Usually don't even check when the game is until Friday rather than planning my weekend around it.
The only reason I have to go now is to meet up with mates but I can do that at a pub for a lot cheaper.
If he's here next year I'm out
 
I still get sucked in, like last week's failed comeback, or when we absolutely suck to comical degrees, like vs Melbourne or Hawthorn, but even when we've played fairly decent attractive footy, like against Gold Coast, it's been hard to care.

It's Port Adelaide purgatory. Which way is it gonna go. Back on board of fully casualised? I've done it with Star Wars I can bloody well do it to Port.

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edgie said:
What a disgrace.

The dogs too slow, better kill it.

Jackson you wouldn't have made it past 26 if we could do the same to AFL footballers.

Haha killed a dog, yeah boys, get the lads together and let's have laugh about some lethal injection to a perfectly healthy animal, good times fellas.

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Lethal injection? I doubt it. Probably got shot and thrown in a ditch. It's not uncommon to hear stories about mass graves being found.
 
GoPorts said:
I'm the same. Think my mates are there too now.
Missed half the home games this year and it doesn't bother me one bit. Usually don't even check when the game is until Friday rather than planning my weekend around it.
The only reason I have to go now is to meet up with mates but I can do that at a pub for a lot cheaper.
If he's here next year I'm out
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100%. As soon as I get the email about my ticket to the next home game, I hit the delete button. I won't be returning to Adelaide Oval until that fraud in the coaches box announces his resignation.
 
A lot of us may wake up one day, in the near future, like Seymour Skinner.

The club and the AFL as a whole we still be mega popular, and here's a small minority complaining about how they apparently cooked the golden goose and footy sucks now, when there's evidence to the contrary.

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Ken Hinkley has been linked to a potential move north given the shaky season of Port Adelaide, but the club and its long-term coach seem to have other ideas.

Jon Ralph | Herald Sun

Port Adelaide and Ken Hinkley are committed to him seeing out his contract for 2023 despite an open coaching market and speculation about a move to Greater Western Sydney.

Hinkley has no interest in entering into a coaching process with the Giants as he attempts to drag the Power into the finals from a rocky 0-5 start to the year.
The 55-year-old has been linked to a potential move given the shaky season of Port Adelaide and a tenure that is about to approach 10 completed seasons.
Hinkley continues to react angrily to suggestions that he might jump ship as he is persistently linked to clubs including GWS.

The Giants have ramped up their coaching search by meeting four-time premiership coach Alastair Clarkson as they prepare to receive a board presentation from caretaker Mark McVeigh.
Port Adelaide chief executive Matthew Richardson’s strong statement that he would also coach out his contract for 2023 is backed by the belief the Power are still in the premiership window next year.
Port Adelaide’s view is that with players like Todd Marshall, Mitch Georgiades, Connor Rozee, Zac Butters and Lachie Jones still to reach their peak they still have a significant upside.

The club’s oldest player Travis Boak will play on given his form next year and Robbie Gray’s excellent showing against Fremantle (21 possessions) means he is likely to also go on into 2023.
As for any coach entering a decade in charge of a club without a premiership Hinkley has polarised the fan base, with some members keen for a change in philosophy.

But there is a genuine belief from the club’s administration and football department that Hinkley has the firm respect of the players and the opportunity to win an elusive flag in 2023.
Richardson has been impressed by Hinkley’s unwavering focus during those dark early rounds when the Power went winless and capacity to bring the side back to finals contention.

He told News Corp last month there was no doubt about Hinkley’s coaching future.
“Ken is our coach and he will be our coach in 2023. He has taken us to the last two preliminary finals and has shown great strength. He is contracted for 2023 and that is not going to change.”
If Hinkley coaches on into 2023 as expected there will be continued scrutiny on him given the expiry of his current contract but when he last coached for his career in 2020 he won a new contract given his team’s performance.

Only a disastrous last third of the season would give the club cause to reconsider but bringing in a new coach like premiership player Adam Kingsley, now at Richmond, would not guarantee immediate success.
Chairman David Koch made clear last week the club had stayed rock-solid despite its early-season issues.
“Football clubs start to worry about coaching and coaching groups when there is fighting among players and coaches and there is a lack of support for each other,” he said.
“There is not one iota of that at Port Adelaide Football Club and there has not been for the whole year.”
 
Us against the rest said:


Ken Hinkley has been linked to a potential move north given the shaky season of Port Adelaide, but the club and its long-term coach seem to have other ideas.

Jon Ralph | Herald Sun

Port Adelaide and Ken Hinkley are committed to him seeing out his contract for 2023 despite an open coaching market and speculation about a move to Greater Western Sydney.

Hinkley has no interest in entering into a coaching process with the Giants as he attempts to drag the Power into the finals from a rocky 0-5 start to the year.
The 55-year-old has been linked to a potential move given the shaky season of Port Adelaide and a tenure that is about to approach 10 completed seasons.
Hinkley continues to react angrily to suggestions that he might jump ship as he is persistently linked to clubs including GWS.

The Giants have ramped up their coaching search by meeting four-time premiership coach Alastair Clarkson as they prepare to receive a board presentation from caretaker Mark McVeigh.
Port Adelaide chief executive Matthew Richardson’s strong statement that he would also coach out his contract for 2023 is backed by the belief the Power are still in the premiership window next year.
Port Adelaide’s view is that with players like Todd Marshall, Mitch Georgiades, Connor Rozee, Zac Butters and Lachie Jones still to reach their peak they still have a significant upside.

The club’s oldest player Travis Boak will play on given his form next year and Robbie Gray’s excellent showing against Fremantle (21 possessions) means he is likely to also go on into 2023.
As for any coach entering a decade in charge of a club without a premiership Hinkley has polarised the fan base, with some members keen for a change in philosophy.

But there is a genuine belief from the club’s administration and football department that Hinkley has the firm respect of the players and the opportunity to win an elusive flag in 2023.
Richardson has been impressed by Hinkley’s unwavering focus during those dark early rounds when the Power went winless and capacity to bring the side back to finals contention.

He told News Corp last month there was no doubt about Hinkley’s coaching future.
“Ken is our coach and he will be our coach in 2023. He has taken us to the last two preliminary finals and has shown great strength. He is contracted for 2023 and that is not going to change.”
If Hinkley coaches on into 2023 as expected there will be continued scrutiny on him given the expiry of his current contract but when he last coached for his career in 2020 he won a new contract given his team’s performance.

Only a disastrous last third of the season would give the club cause to reconsider but bringing in a new coach like premiership player Adam Kingsley, now at Richmond, would not guarantee immediate success.
Chairman David Koch made clear last week the club had stayed rock-solid despite its early-season issues.
“Football clubs start to worry about coaching and coaching groups when there is fighting among players and coaches and there is a lack of support for each other,” he said.
“There is not one iota of that at Port Adelaide Football Club and there has not been for the whole year.”
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They are questions that are really difficult to quantify because unless you’re in the inner sanctum you don’t know how much influence they have over the senior coach or the game plan, overall.

But a team of “yes” men won’t work.
 
1954 said:
kern is our version of Neil Craig, but even the campaigners down the road eventually woke that he couldn't take them all the way!
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And he was only in the job from Round 14 2004 to Round 16 2011.

That’d be the equivalent of Teflon Ken going in Round 3 2020 (when he happened to be on the verge of saving his bacon after 5 years of underperforming dross).
 
Doctor Feel said:
“Football clubs start to worry about coaching and coaching groups when there is fighting among players and coaches and there is a lack of support for each other,” he said.
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Now, EVERYTHING makes sense.

“We exist to have a peaceful workplace.”
 
Us against the rest said:


Ken Hinkley has been linked to a potential move north given the shaky season of Port Adelaide, but the club and its long-term coach seem to have other ideas.

Jon Ralph | Herald Sun

Port Adelaide and Ken Hinkley are committed to him seeing out his contract for 2023 despite an open coaching market and speculation about a move to Greater Western Sydney.

Hinkley has no interest in entering into a coaching process with the Giants as he attempts to drag the Power into the finals from a rocky 0-5 start to the year.
The 55-year-old has been linked to a potential move given the shaky season of Port Adelaide and a tenure that is about to approach 10 completed seasons.
Hinkley continues to react angrily to suggestions that he might jump ship as he is persistently linked to clubs including GWS.

The Giants have ramped up their coaching search by meeting four-time premiership coach Alastair Clarkson as they prepare to receive a board presentation from caretaker Mark McVeigh.
Port Adelaide chief executive Matthew Richardson’s strong statement that he would also coach out his contract for 2023 is backed by the belief the Power are still in the premiership window next year.
Port Adelaide’s view is that with players like Todd Marshall, Mitch Georgiades, Connor Rozee, Zac Butters and Lachie Jones still to reach their peak they still have a significant upside.

The club’s oldest player Travis Boak will play on given his form next year and Robbie Gray’s excellent showing against Fremantle (21 possessions) means he is likely to also go on into 2023.
As for any coach entering a decade in charge of a club without a premiership Hinkley has polarised the fan base, with some members keen for a change in philosophy.

But there is a genuine belief from the club’s administration and football department that Hinkley has the firm respect of the players and the opportunity to win an elusive flag in 2023.
Richardson has been impressed by Hinkley’s unwavering focus during those dark early rounds when the Power went winless and capacity to bring the side back to finals contention.

He told News Corp last month there was no doubt about Hinkley’s coaching future.
“Ken is our coach and he will be our coach in 2023. He has taken us to the last two preliminary finals and has shown great strength. He is contracted for 2023 and that is not going to change.”
If Hinkley coaches on into 2023 as expected there will be continued scrutiny on him given the expiry of his current contract but when he last coached for his career in 2020 he won a new contract given his team’s performance.

Only a disastrous last third of the season would give the club cause to reconsider but bringing in a new coach like premiership player Adam Kingsley, now at Richmond, would not guarantee immediate success.
Chairman David Koch made clear last week the club had stayed rock-solid despite its early-season issues.
“Football clubs start to worry about coaching and coaching groups when there is fighting among players and coaches and there is a lack of support for each other,” he said.
“There is not one iota of that at Port Adelaide Football Club and there has not been for the whole year.”
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Despite all the 'outside noise' it's still an opinion piece and I think he's gone.
 
tribey said:
The underlying vibe that we’d be at a loss if he chose to abandon us.

The brilliant mind who has coughed up every chance he’s conjured in the past 10 years.
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We could be, but that doesn’t mean he should stay.
 
Us against the rest said:


Ken Hinkley has been linked to a potential move north given the shaky season of Port Adelaide, but the club and its long-term coach seem to have other ideas.

Jon Ralph | Herald Sun

Port Adelaide and Ken Hinkley are committed to him seeing out his contract for 2023 despite an open coaching market and speculation about a move to Greater Western Sydney.

Hinkley has no interest in entering into a coaching process with the Giants as he attempts to drag the Power into the finals from a rocky 0-5 start to the year.
The 55-year-old has been linked to a potential move given the shaky season of Port Adelaide and a tenure that is about to approach 10 completed seasons.
Hinkley continues to react angrily to suggestions that he might jump ship as he is persistently linked to clubs including GWS.

The Giants have ramped up their coaching search by meeting four-time premiership coach Alastair Clarkson as they prepare to receive a board presentation from caretaker Mark McVeigh.
Port Adelaide chief executive Matthew Richardson’s strong statement that he would also coach out his contract for 2023 is backed by the belief the Power are still in the premiership window next year.
Port Adelaide’s view is that with players like Todd Marshall, Mitch Georgiades, Connor Rozee, Zac Butters and Lachie Jones still to reach their peak they still have a significant upside.

The club’s oldest player Travis Boak will play on given his form next year and Robbie Gray’s excellent showing against Fremantle (21 possessions) means he is likely to also go on into 2023.
As for any coach entering a decade in charge of a club without a premiership Hinkley has polarised the fan base, with some members keen for a change in philosophy.

But there is a genuine belief from the club’s administration and football department that Hinkley has the firm respect of the players and the opportunity to win an elusive flag in 2023.
Richardson has been impressed by Hinkley’s unwavering focus during those dark early rounds when the Power went winless and capacity to bring the side back to finals contention.

He told News Corp last month there was no doubt about Hinkley’s coaching future.
“Ken is our coach and he will be our coach in 2023. He has taken us to the last two preliminary finals and has shown great strength. He is contracted for 2023 and that is not going to change.”
If Hinkley coaches on into 2023 as expected there will be continued scrutiny on him given the expiry of his current contract but when he last coached for his career in 2020 he won a new contract given his team’s performance.

Only a disastrous last third of the season would give the club cause to reconsider but bringing in a new coach like premiership player Adam Kingsley, now at Richmond, would not guarantee immediate success.
Chairman David Koch made clear last week the club had stayed rock-solid despite its early-season issues.
“Football clubs start to worry about coaching and coaching groups when there is fighting among players and coaches and there is a lack of support for each other,” he said.
“There is not one iota of that at Port Adelaide Football Club and there has not been for the whole year.”
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I’m worried there is no in fighting among the players and coaches! We started 0-5 only to rise to the dizzy heights of 12th. If the club are happy with this they can get ****ed,l won’t be wasting my hard earned on a membership next year 🖕
 
Us against the rest said:
“Football clubs start to worry about coaching and coaching groups when there is fighting among players and coaches and there is a lack of support for each other,” he said.
“There is not one iota of that at Port Adelaide Football Club and there has not been for the whole year.”
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So we don't worry about results?

There's no fighting among players and coaches because they're all comfortable.
This club needs a massive shake up.
 
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