Coach Has Ken Hinkley Been Found Out?

[ferball]

Its not Hinkley.

Its Port Power themselves.

By the start of the 2004 season they'd played nine finals and only won two and that included finishing on top of the ladder twice. Its a true Port Adelaide tradition to lose AFL finals.

You can blame Hinkley all you like but its the players that are mentally fragile. Drew's first clearancxe last night was the perfect example and par for the course.

And its no wonder the players are so fraguile when there's so much division over a coach that gets such great H&A results out of his side every year but gets **** all support from the people behind the scenes in Adelaide. You can see it with the clowns in all those sack Hinkley threads and in the Adelaide media etc etc.

The players feel this pressure in finals cos they know what a great job their coach does during the season and don't want to let him down.

If the Port Supporters actually supported their side instead of white-anting its leadership at every opportunity they might actually see some success in September.

Never tear us apart indeed.

 

[scotty13]

Game plan.
Development of players.
Coaching skills and strategy.
Long term encouragement and player management.
Listening to players.
Providing leadership and fostering leadership among the players.
Game day strategy and tactics.

A bit of a rev up on game day is fine but geez it's way down the list of priorities.

Game plan hey... would that be leaving one of our best players (JHF) on the bench for the first half of both the first and second terms? Or would that be the bombing in hope to the forward line time and time again for no result?

Development of players... so consistently playing McIntee, Narkle, F. Evans when we know their output is the worse in the league than plating some of the younger players? Or would it be playing a 90yr old Dixon who can't move because he hasn't developed any other talls?

Skills and Strategy... like us being the worst kick at goal in the league?

Game day Strategy... what was our GDS last night? Sit on our hands and let Geelong tear us a new one? What was plan B, or C? Didnt see any of that.

So tell me again how good a coach Hinkley is?

 

[Shane Heard]

At least he’s a glass half full kinda guy.

Better than half empty.

 

[scotty13]

At least he’s a glass half full kinda guy.

Better than half empty.

Is he though... his favourite saying at this time of the year is 'Finals are Scary'. Doesn't sound half full to me.

 

[LordLucifer]

If they get bundled out in straight sets next week (and there is every chance that will happen), Ken cannot be given a contract into the future, they have to part ways asap.

 

[Mofra]

His Plan A is fine.
Without they best two HB distributers last night they really needed a plan B.

 

[Percel]

Game plan hey... would that be leaving one of our best players (JHF) on the bench for the first half of both the first and second terms?

Why was he off?

 

[scotty13]

Why was he off?

Strategy

 

[Percel]

Strategy

Damn

Guy is a beast, he’s the guy I want in big games.

 

[Schulzenfest]

So what is the coaches role if it isn't to ensure his players are primed and ready to go for a finals match?

As always, the only way to defend Ken is to argue that senior coaches aren't actually responsible for anything. He bears no responsibility for the state of the list after 12 seasons with him at the helm of it. He bears no responsibility for the mental conditioning of the playing group. He's nothing more than the world's highest paid interchange steward.

 

[evo]

Every time Kochy leaves the house, Port supporters should throw rotten fruit at him.

It's the only solution.

 

[ferball]

As always, the only way to defend Ken is to argue that senior coaches aren't actually responsible for anything. He bears no responsibility for the state of the list after 12 seasons with him at the helm of it. He bears no responsibility for the mental conditioning of the playing group. He's nothing more than the world's highest paid interchange steward.

Youse have finished in the top three for four of the last five years. So if he bears responsibility for that list then what is your problem with it? That's one of the stupidest assessments I've read on this website over the years and there have been some beauties.

wE hAvE A tOp FoUr LiSt!!! SaCk ThE CoAcH - hE iS rEsPoSIblE FoR iT!1!!!

Adelaide is basically a small town, its a fish bowl in AFL terms. All this crap you lot spout on the back of the phone guy ... it gets in the player's heads and sows doubts they don 't need, then they increase the pressure on themselves and it shows in situations like last night.

Frankly its hilarious and I know you'll double down on it cos deep down we both know you'd rather see Ken fail and get sacked than see your side actually win a flag under him. You and the others like you are the problem here and...

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[Schulzenfest]

Youse have finished in the top three for four of the last five years. So if he bears responsibility for that list then what is your problem with it? That's one of the stupidest assessments I've read on this website over the years and there have been some beauties.

wE hAvE A tOp FoUr LiSt!!! SaCk ThE CoAcH - hE iS rEsPoSIblE FoR iT!1!!!

Adelaide is basically a small town, its a fish bowl in AFL terms. All this crap you lot spout on the back of the phone guy ... it gets in the player's heads and sows doubts they don 't need, then they increase the pressure on themselves and it shows in situations like last night.

Frankly its hilarious and I know you'll double down on it cos deep down we both know you'd rather see Ken fail and get sacked than see your side actually win a flag under him. You and the others like you are the problem here and...

Thisiswhyyoufail.gif

lol wtf are you talking about

 

[ferball]

lol wtf are you talking about

You seriously don't think the division that all this anti Hinkley shit causes has an effect on the players come finals time?

LOL.

Port Power have struggled in finals since they formed and started playing in the AFL 27 years ago. Youse have won more than one final at a rate less than a quarter of the time you've made them over your short history. You had a reputation for choking in finals 20 years ago so why blame it on Ken as if its a new thing? Its a consistent part of your club's narrative.

Frankly if the toxic garbage you lot spew about him on that board of yours is what things were like when your side was just starting out its no wonder your club can't focus on just playing footy during finals.

The greatest coaches of all time - Barassi, Pagan, Clarkson, Jeans, Matthews etc will all tell you teams struggle to win finals when there is any form of external distraction. IE a distraction like the constant calls to sack your coach after four top three finishes in five seasons.

 

[Red Bull]

Ken has a shocking character flaw.
He is known to throw anyone and everyone under the bus when things get tough but enjoys strutting around grandstanding when there’s some credit to be taken.
This shameful performance must be the last straw … it’s time for this shyster to finally walk the plank !!

 

[joe444]

Their team selection and list management is woeful, too.

For Esava, they gave up three picks; Geelong use pick 63 of those to get Lawson Humphries.

Years after being called out by teammates for being overweight, Rioli still carries puddings around.

And the Cats figured out in 2021 that Narkle, Evans and Esava weren't a viable forward set up. What made Port think anything different?

And nothing seems to be done to force their elite midfield to be less selfish and more defensive.

Just utter incompetence.

 

[Rabish Binney]

The manner of this loss is truly embarrassing
I mean they beat Geelong at home not long ago

It's all mental

They beat you guys at KP in round 21 of 2007...

Look how that turned out 4 weeks later......

 

[Barrybran]

You all realise the end point for this is Hinkley coaching the Bombers to a flag, right?

 

[Anja_Nees]

You’d think his ability to hide in plain sight is roughly equivalent to the orchard mantis.

In reality it’s a pantomime whodunnit where everyone in the audience knows exactly who did it but the characters wander round on the stage interrogating everyone else.

 

[Red Bull]

 

[kickazz]

Game plan hey... would that be leaving one of our best players (JHF) on the bench for the first half of both the first and second terms? Or would that be the bombing in hope to the forward line time and time again for no result?

Development of players... so consistently playing McIntee, Narkle, F. Evans when we know their output is the worse in the league than plating some of the younger players? Or would it be playing a 90yr old Dixon who can't move because he hasn't developed any other talls?

Skills and Strategy... like us being the worst kick at goal in the league?

Game day Strategy... what was our GDS last night? Sit on our hands and let Geelong tear us a new one? What was plan B, or C? Didnt see any of that.

So tell me again how good a coach Hinkley is?

Not dismissing any of that out of hand. Just think the whole "get the boys fired up on the day" is BS. That's on the players themselves as pro athletes.

 

[voorhees]

Man just fails to get his team up and ready for the intensity of the finals.
to many chances have been given.
The power are ready to turn the page and start a new chapter with a new coach.

 

[ClintEastwood]

Youse

Just stop there. You've already proven you can't speak English, (well you can, but only at a level on par with Hinkley himself), so nothing else you're going to say will matter.

 

[ClintEastwood]

You’d think his ability to hide in plain sight is roughly equivalent to the orchard mantis.

In reality it’s a pantomime whodunnit where everyone in the audience knows exactly who did it but the characters wander round on the stage interrogating everyone else.

This is ****ing hilarious (and accurate), sadly for me as a Port supporter.

You, sir / madam, win the internets.

 

[rainwizard39]

Not dismissing any of that out of hand. Just think the whole "get the boys fired up on the day" is BS. That's on the players themselves as pro athletes.

Yet no matter how many players we turn over or assistant coaches we’ve had, the players are still the same mentally fragile losers every big game. Who is responsible for that, in your opinion?