Certified Legendary Thread Sack Hinkley 13 - Another Crack At This

[dirty2]

**** Hinkley.

 

[longdonkey]

**** Hinkley.

I've never hated him but I'm getting there now.

 

[sobrave]

Yes they do. They also ignore Fagan, gf appearance in his 7th year and won the flag in his 8th ffs. The pro Hinkley brigade are morons.

And Brisbane, despite their "chokes" have clearly been a level above us for quite a while, regardless of our h&a ladder finishes

 

[JackHiscoxWasFast]

Not trolling with this post but I’d love to trade Horse for Kenny.

You laugh but we are zero and I mean zero chance to win a GF with Horse at the helm. Kenny can’t make them and Horse can’t win them.

It’s lighter on our wallets to have Kenny. Imagine meeting in a grand final with the coach swaps. I say imagine cos we are about to have a long time in the wilderness before the next GF.

 

[Port 2004]

Not trolling with this post but I’d love to trade Horse for Kenny.

You laugh but we are zero and I mean zero chance to win a GF with Horse at the helm. Kenny can’t make them and Horse can’t win them.

It’s lighter on our wallets to have Kenny. Imagine meeting in a grand final with the coach swaps. I say imagine cos we are about to have a long time in the wilderness before the next GF.

To honest, I would trade Kenny for any horse. Even Mr Ed would be a better coach.

 

[JackHiscoxWasFast]

To honest, I would trade Kenny for any horse. Even Mr Ed would be a better coach.

Let’s make it happen!

 

[Steve Dore]

To honest, I would trade Kenny for any horse. Even Mr Ed would be a better coach.

Mr Ed had a better command of the English language than Daddy Donuts.

 

[Dazalinko1988]

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"Sack Hinkley farkin"

 

[rogerjames]

It’s a realistic extension of the phenomenon you see on this board.

Beyond the harder core of so-called Hinkley Haters in this thread — who will remain staunch in the belief he’s incapable of delivering a flag regardless of how superficially strong his chances look in a given season, and are yet to be proven wrong once — we have a lot of people here who pull up stumps and abruptly end their agitation as soon as the team strings a few wins together.

Whether that’s because they don’t want to be seen as disloyal, or they don’t want to run afoul of the delulu gatekeepers who decree that if you haven’t been chugging Ken’s d¡ck the whole time you’re not allowed to enjoy any mythical flag, or they don’t want to look like irrational headcases to certain figures at the club and Ken apologists in the media, they cut and run the instant a modicum of consistent competence results in not getting embarrassed under lights at home in a given month.

Some even flip from accepting Ken should go and expressing long-repressed anger at his ongoing tenure, to decrying negativity and reheating ‘first world problems, there are starving kids in Africa’ false equivalences to the Moorabbin or Arden Street experience.

Ergo, the Sydney win effectively short circuited the campaign against Ken for 2024 and bought him another 12 months on top.

Tredrea is in an even worse position than the cohort of fans mentioned above, because he has real skin in the game.

Short of 12 years of obvious context, we did make a Prelim. We do have an excellent young midfield that should get even better.

And so on, beyond the risk to his personal credibility on matters football, and breaching the charter he signed by publicly condemning Ken in the face of all those superficially positive outcomes.

For the rest of us, the holding pattern continues.

23-25 more games will go in the books, we’ll lose Bergman or maybe even Butters for unders, and we might see George Hewett, Sean Lemmens and James Aish in Port colours in 2026, with Hinkley every chance to earn yet another deal at some stage because who ya gonna get? The best clubs are stable.

A nightmare without end.

Tredders is certainly in a difficult position. It's why I get defensive when people say he hasn't achieved anything yet. I have faith he's doing the best he can. I don't know where this ends but I have a strong feeling I'll be distancing myself from the club in the near future. And now I've got a grandson & I want him to love Port. But I don't love Port anymore & my son is probably going to give up his membership. I had so much fun with my son following Port when he was young. There were bad times sure but we were both passionate Port supporters. It just makes me sad.

 

[rogerjames]

This is the key, no one in power is a real Port person.
We all know just making finals is bullshit. If this had been our attitude for over 100 years we would never have got into the AFL

And that is a statement for the AGM. It's so true. We gave the Afl no alternative because of our sustained excellence. I am still very grateful to all those Magpie players & officials that made it happen. But it hasn't turned out the way I wanted or expected.

 

[rogerjames]

I just hope he’s decent because I can’t bare the thought of hearing “See? We should never have gotten rid of Hinkley/be careful what you wish for/the grass isn’t greener now, is it?”

My son said the other day 'Be careful what you wish for'. I died a little.

 

[snozulu]

To honest, I would trade Kenny for any horse. Even Mr Ed would be a better coach.

 

[rogerjames]

Not trolling with this post but I’d love to trade Horse for Kenny.

You laugh but we are zero and I mean zero chance to win a GF with Horse at the helm. Kenny can’t make them and Horse can’t win the

It’s lighter on our wallets to have Kenny. Imagine meeting in a grand final with the coach swaps. I say imagine cos we are about to have a long time in the wilderness before the next GF.

Agree, think you're cooked under Horse after what I witnessed in the GF. It reminded me so much of our players in finals under Hinkley. Both coaches have had plenty of chances & should step aside. It's just too negative.

 

[Anyonebutken]

I think ken will be gone next year, and carr takes over in 2026 but that's only half the battle fast foward a couple of years from now carr must be the only one left standing at the club in a major role.
All of koch, richo, davies, Chad, and maybe cripps too have to be gone from the club.

 

[Schulzenfest]

I took a week of long service leave last month. When we hired Hinkley I worked in another industry.

I've said this before. I was a teenager when we hired Hinkley. I'm now in my thirties with a wife and a house.

 

[Powerade 08]

I've said this before. I was a teenager when we hired Hinkley. I'm now in my thirties with a wife and a house.

You are Jordan Hinkley?

 

[PowerLil]

It’s lighter on our wallets to have Kenny.

Lol. Chump change. I bet Horse has never been called brilliant-minded.

 

[Schulzenfest]

Is it possible that he's worse than Hinkley, surely not.

Lots of coaches are worse than Hinkley. Most of them, probably. But that's not a bad thing for their clubs.

A great coach wins premierships. A bad coach gets cycled out and replaced, potentially by a great coach who might win a premiership. Where you don't want your club to be (especially if your club happens to have a pissweak board) is stuck with a middling coach who's not quite good enough to win anything of substance but not quite bad enough to have any one season that by itself justifies a sacking.

We'd be much better off if Ken was a worse coach. If Ken was a worse coach he'd have been cycled out by now and we'd have had another chance to find a great coach. But like the cockroach he is he's just managed to find a way to hit the exact sweet spot year after year between achieving something and getting sacked.

 

[PowerBaz]

It really depends on who you ask. Some say nothing has been decided. Others say a contract has been signed already.



I don't have faith when the rubber meets the road that the people in charge will make the right decisions for the betterment of the on-field performance at the club.

If we are going fine next year watch them sign Ken up mid year.

I have zero faith after this year they have the guts to make the hard call - After watching Koch at the B&F he has little intention of sacking Ken, close enough is good enough and we should all be grateful.

Smug campaigners the lot of them.

 

[Peninsula Boy]

It's going to be a tough year all round.

Sure, the players will play well or well enough but the idea of Koch's stability has well and truly turned into the one of staleness.

The fanbase has been subjected to the cruelty of Koch and his AFL Overlords and the idea that Hinkley can win three finals against quality coaching and a focussed team is near to impossible.

Our year will more than less start and end on Preliminary Final day.

 

[Peninsula Boy]

It really depends on who you ask. Some say nothing has been decided. Others say a contract has been signed already.

The intel from you is just getting better and better.

 

[Us against the rest]

Just try and line up some winter activities and forget about Port, it gets easier with time.
The 4wd super center has some good buys for winter 4w driving and camping.

It's better than waiting for the next bloody dumb thing the club comes up with.

The club is not invested in it's fans anymore so why bother.

 

[Ports1870]

I've said this before. I was a teenager when we hired Hinkley. I'm now in my thirties with a wife and a house.

I was in primary school and have now just finished a 4 year uni degree

 

[tribey]

I was in primary school and have now just finished a 4 year uni degree

I love these.

 

[philreich]

I was in primary school and have now just finished a 4 year uni degree

And no doubt the study was less painful than a Hinkley press conference.