I know people like to complain about umpiring especially when they lose but you guys got a ridiculous advantage in that game. Touched ball, ball out of bounds that lead to a goal, some really ****ing stupid free kicks that weren't there.
Opinion Did Hawthorn just expose a mental fragility?
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Is it because Sam Mitchell bitched about it at the press conference?
Unfortunately, people take footy super seriously. It happens at all clubs. A bulk of the Port supporters are abosolutely savage.
I would go to games in the early 2000s and those supporters were the ones trashing both Burgoynes week in week out.
Yeah, great take
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This isn’t the SANFL. You aren’t some super shit hot club anymore. Getting to the last four is extremely hard.
Don't forget that Hawthorn were raging favourites.
They were raging favourites for a reason - and Port were able to dismantle their game.
It's actually not. We've been topping up every season he's been at the club. You can coast through a season and make a Prelim. You have nfi what you are on about. We will see how you are doing when Mick Voss is still at the helm in 2034 and you have yet to achieve anything. I'm sure you'll be content.
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It weighed on Ken's mind for days. And he now has a Please Explain. He hasnt moved on.
Well I'd like to think you are right but I'm still struggling to trust my team against certain other teams.
Hard to believe we haven't beaten Port since 2016.
So that's including seasons 2016 & 2022 in which we contested the Grand Finals.
Finals are different, we had the same issue with Geelong
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Right so you think that coaches approaching players and verballing them after matches is a good look or something we want to see more of?
It's Australia. It's a microaggression to enjoy yourself. Don't you know that?
It wasn't a good look but surely there are lessons to be learned from Ginnivan. Personally I don't mind it if he backs it up AND OR is willing to accept the consequences.
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Did I say you should be content? I get the frustration. My club’s supporters have similar issues reconciling expectations and reality.
Port is just a mediocre club now. It’s not all Ken’s fault.
I didn’t see any coach approaching a player.
I did see a player approaching a coach however.
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If Fly can get off for (hypocritically) whinging about umpires post game, Hinkley shouldn’t get a fine for pretending to an aeroplane.
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I think mental fragility was shown, but I think teams will need to be very subtle with how to expose it, as the chance of backfire is large (pretty sure Port players wish they Ken didn’t do what he did in the lead up to next week’s game). The saying about never getting into a fight with pigs in mud comes to mind.
I think there is a related aspect. The off season can be long and painful for players after losing a tight final. Each of Ginni’s teammates will now need to go through this knowing that Ginni’s selfishness and disrespect before the ball was even bounced likely cost them the game. Hinkley made sure to make that very clear.
Will they be able to endure Ginni over this time, particularly if Ginni (very probably) continues to carry on in ways that put himself before his teammates? Fly couldn’t hack him and they won the GF…
I think there is a related aspect. The off season can be long and painful for players after losing a tight final. Each of Ginni’s teammates will now need to go through this knowing that Ginni’s selfishness and disrespect before the ball was even bounced likely cost them the game. Hinkley made sure to make that very clear.
Will they be able to endure Ginni over this time, particularly if Ginni (very probably) continues to carry on in ways that put himself before his teammates? Fly couldn’t hack him and they won the GF…
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Yes. They're up and about being flogs when everythings going well. But as soon as it doesn't or someone nips back its the end of the world. I mean Kenny pretended to be an aeroplane in response to a comment that his entire club are easy beats and not worthy opposition and all the Hawthorn people are going on like Kenny ran over Ginnivan's dogs.
Anyway, it has given us some gold from the mentally fragile supporter base...
Anyway, it has given us some gold from the mentally fragile supporter base...
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Tend to agree.
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I think a mental fragility was exposed yet again, when a newly joined coach expressed that 80 per cent of the club’s next premiership team was already on the list.
That’s working out so well.
That’s working out so well.
2 age old truths come to mind.
1: talk shit, get hit
2: the one that retaliates usually gets in trouble
Ginnivan was clearly goading port. Hinkley won, and used the chance to stick the knife in.
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1: talk shit, get hit
2: the one that retaliates usually gets in trouble
Ginnivan was clearly goading port. Hinkley won, and used the chance to stick the knife in.
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Sicily? Are you blind?Oh, of course. Ginnivan went looking for Ken.
How do you expose this mental fragility?
Sledging the Hawthorn players after the final siren doesn't appear to be an obvious way to change the result of any given match - but maybe I am missing something?
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