Opinion Sack Hinkley 10 - UnTENable

[1954]

All true, so far as I believe. And don’t forget when Hinkley came in 2012 he brought his whole family with him at club expense after Donna made it a condition.

And she did indeed, during the crisis meeting in the Hinkley kitchen in 2017, tell the chairman: “Shut the **** up, David.”

I was a fly on the wall.

Regardless of any clause in their contract it's mind boggling that no-one on the board has been prepared to call kok out for weak sh*t like that, plus as has already been suggested his reaction to being stomped on like a cockroach by the coach's spouse was to continue to give the family another 8 years and counting of winning million dollar lottery tickets.

The PAFC was renowned for never airing its dirty linen in public back when we were a real footy club, and the chances of someone like Bob McLean attending a `crisis meeting' in a club employee's kitchen and then being talked down to by a relative of that person whether they be male or female would have been absolutely zero, and I suspect nobody would have been silly enough to try it.

 

[Bump Bailey]

Regardless of any clause in their contract it's mind boggling that no-one on the board has been prepared to call kok out for weak sh*t like that, plus as has already been suggested his reaction to being stomped on like a cockroach by the coach's spouse was to continue to give the family another 8 years and counting of winning million dollar lottery tickets.

The PAFC was renowned for never airing its dirty linen in public back when we were a real footy club, and the chances of someone like Bob McLean attending a `crisis meeting' in a club employee's kitchen and then being talked down to by a relative of that person whether they be male or female would have been absolutely zero, and I suspect nobody would have been silly enough to try it.

The balance of power at the club is all wrong.

The post-2017 season shit show which should have seen Hinkley jettisoned has actually strengthened his power base, as I've got no doubt Koch and Richardson have trodden on eggshells around him ever since. Hence Ken surviving numerous embarrassments that coaches at other clubs wouldn't.

Add to that the "daddy" routine which has effectively splintered the playing group away from the main body of the club and formed a separate Ken Hinkley FC, and it appears the most powerful person at the club is a guy who can't stand the joint.

Wonderful.

 

[Lockhart Road]

Regardless of any clause in their contract it's mind boggling that no-one on the board has been prepared to call kok out for weak sh*t like that, plus as has already been suggested his reaction to being stomped on like a cockroach by the coach's spouse was to continue to give the family another 8 years and counting of winning million dollar lottery tickets.

The PAFC was renowned for never airing its dirty linen in public back when we were a real footy club, and the chances of someone like Bob McLean attending a `crisis meeting' in a club employee's kitchen and then being talked down to by a relative of that person whether they be male or female would have been absolutely zero, and I suspect nobody would have been silly enough to try it.

When David Koch first came from far, far away … first came from his castle on the top of the cliff above Bungan Beach … he brought with him to bestow upon the swamp folk at Alberton a new culture, called ‘upper-class’.

The swamp folk knew not what to make of it. This bloke was no bloke, he was a cartoon character with a four-letter word for a name pretending to be a bloke.

There was one person, an itinerant recently arrived in swamp land, who saw through the David’s act at once, saw every chink in the David’s fake tailor-made pinstripe suit of upper-class armour and knew how to get in under that armour and stay in there sucking on the David’s blue blood … for as long as he liked.

Slurp … slurp … slurp … slurp … … …

The itinerant was in fact a bunyip known as Hinks the Jinx. Hinks wallowed in swamp land, having grown up someplace else amongst the leeches and the mosquitoes and a platypus or two and a skinny whippet or three or four … dozen.

The David was no match for the Jinx, and twelve years later the swamp land called Alberton has been transformed by their highly corrosive alien presence and by their self-serving fight for individual survival. The David’s fight has been to save his ratings and his ego. The Jinx’s fight has been to turn himself and his wife and family into bunyip millionaires. Neither has been fighting for the Port Adelaide Football Club, for its supporters and members, for its mighty past to become its present and then a mighty future.

No longer is Alberton even football country. No longer are footballers bred there.

Alberton today is the Land of Used To Be, and the Land of Nowhere Else to Go.

It is the battlefield of Sir David of Bungan Beach, who lies flat on his back in its midst, bereft of blue blood, sucked dry of it, and The Bunyip called Hinks the Jinx who has learnt how to render the media speechless with his unintelligible victorious mutterings, as they all wonder what swamp land, having laid waste to Alberton, Hinks will set upon next.

 

[philreich]

Regardless of any clause in their contract it's mind boggling that no-one on the board has been prepared to call kok out for weak sh*t like that, plus as has already been suggested his reaction to being stomped on like a cockroach by the coach's spouse was to continue to give the family another 8 years and counting of winning million dollar lottery tickets.

The PAFC was renowned for never airing its dirty linen in public back when we were a real footy club, and the chances of someone like Bob McLean attending a `crisis meeting' in a club employee's kitchen and then being talked down to by a relative of that person whether they be male or female would have been absolutely zero, and I suspect nobody would have been silly enough to try it.

Perhaps it also goes some of the way to explaining Koch's bizarre decision in 2022 to choose 7 news to announce that Ken would be fulfilling the final year of his contract. Maybe it was to ward off another tongue lashing from Donna?

 

[dirty2]

Perhaps it also goes some of the way to explaining Koch's bizarre decision in 2022 to choose 7 news to announce that Ken would be fulfilling the final year of his contract. Maybe it was to ward off another tongue lashing from Donna?

That ****ed me off so much

 

[Doctor Feel]

Queen Donna telling Port fans to eat cake

 

[Alberton Proud]

Queen Donna telling Port fans to eat cake donuts

FTFY

 

[Us against the rest]

Port Adelaide would have to be the biggest under achievers in AFL history. Over 3 lists this fraud has been through, it doesn't matter who this club recruit, it's the same shit just a different year, what a wasted decade.

We may be 3rd on the ladder atm but we all know how this ends.

 

[simba_]

we all know how this ends.

i can picture it now. a 7 minute period midway through the 4th in an otherwise decent final where we let the opposition score 4 in a row and that's that, the entire season all blown in under 500 seconds

 

[Bump Bailey]

i can picture it now. a 7 minute period midway through the 4th in an otherwise decent final where we let the opposition score 4 in a row and that's that, the entire season all blown in under 500 seconds

well that would at least be an improvement on last year, where the 7 minute period where we let the opposition score 4 in a row happened in the second quarter. #SmallMercies

 

[Peninsula Boy]

The way you guys are talking about our Chairman you would think he is Kochless and fell over against Kenny Average.

Is he that stupid?

Is it really just the used car salesman overcoming the spineless spiv?

 

[EskimoPAFC]

If you want to know who is in power you only need to look at any conversation about the next coach and who is involved in the decision making process (hint: it shouldn't be the bloke in the firing line that's failed for 11 years straight).

 

[dirty2]

The way you guys are talking about our Chairman you would think he is Kochless and fell over against Kenny Average.

Is he that stupid?

Is it really just the used car salesman overcoming the spineless spiv?

Stinkley sold kochless a lemon.

 

[longdonkey]

Stinkley sold kochless a lemon.

Of all the lemons he's sold this is his crowning glory.

 

[simba_]

[90's Movie Voiceover Guy]

The Greatest Lemon He Ever Sold...

Was Himself.

Ken Hinkley Is...

Daddy Donuts

 

[Harlott]

It beggars belief this proud club has allowed this shit to last this long.

 

[philreich]

It beggars belief this proud club has allowed this shit to last this long.

But they don't see it as failure - that's the issue. As long as we don't bottom out and do a North Melbourne, and people continue to do as they're told and pay their membership dollars, then what's the problem?

 

[Marmozet]

I was listening to Triple M today and they described him as "one of the AFL's longest serving coaches"

Of all the ways to describe him, that is certainly one of them.

 

[Us against the rest]

I was listening to Triple M today and they described him as "one of the AFL's longest serving coaches"

Of all the ways to describe him, that is certainly one of them.

I would have put the word loser into that sentence.

 

[philreich]

I was listening to Triple M today and they described him as "one of the AFL's longest serving coaches"

Of all the ways to describe him, that is certainly one of them.

But one might argue that he's been serving his own bank account all this time - not Port Adelaide.

 

[Bump Bailey]

Hands in pockets looking disinterested + guzzling Coke Zero + spooking own players = Kenergy

 

[1954]

The way you guys are talking about our Chairman you would think he is Kochless and fell over against Kenny Average.

Is he that stupid?

Is it really just the used car salesman overcoming the spineless spiv?

Maybe the chairman is all koch and no balls.

 

[Steve Dore]

But one might argue that he's been serving his own bank account all this time - not Port Adelaide.

He is the AFL's most self serving coach. I doubt there is another coach in the AFL that holds the club that employs them and its members with so much disdain.

 

[philreich]

He is the AFL's most self serving coach. I doubt there is another coach in the AFL that holds the club that employs them and its members with so much disdain.

He's more or less admitted that has no time for the fans, as if we're second class citizens.

 

[Peninsula Boy]

Maybe the chairman is all koch and no balls.

That's why I asked the question.

Either Koch is stupid and has been railroaded by Ken and his team from Melbourne or it is a circle jerk and everyone is looking out for everyone and you only get in by a secret handshake and those who come in are made sure to not be as good as the last guy in so you can keep your job.

If you have a look at the coaching department, apart from Josh Carr, the rest of them are a complete non-event. A few of them probably couldn't get a job coaching at Bell Park. Its hard not to look at our coaching page on the official site and laugh.