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Yeah but he has been here for 5 years now and could argue hasn’t had any improvement since year one.Neade is fine..showed more than half of them against West coast
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Yeah but he has been here for 5 years now and could argue hasn’t had any improvement since year one.Neade is fine..showed more than half of them against West coast
Probably not. Few others haven't either like boakYeah but he has been here for 5 years now and could argue hasn’t had any improvement since year one.
I want port to win a premiership next year, rocky gives us the best opportunity. If Atley, Drew and SPP are good enough then they will play regardlessI just reckon bringing in Rocky defeats the point of last years draft strategy. I'm a massive Motlop fan and by all means bring in another quality outside mid but I reckon I'd rather see Atley, Drew and SPP in there over Rocky on a good chunk of change.
Click baithttp://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport...e/news-story/2874fe0206924eb8d6a1b78425e5104c
How the Ken Hinkley saga lifts the lid on the strain of being an AFL coach in Adelaide
Not really. Just Rucci trying to right Denham's venom.Click bait
Na just sayn the link didn't work.Not really. Just Rucci trying to right Denham's venom.
We go recruit Richardson and Walsh to support Hinkley and replace them with Hart and Voss. The fact that Voss still talks about his desire to be a head coach every chance he gets shows where his head is at.
Went from having our shit together to just having shit.
SorryNa just sayn the link didn't work.
Cheers for that. Having read that I'd say he knew full well what he was taking on & if it was too much for him to handle then Gold Coast was a softer option. If you're a coach in Victoria you'd go through the same dramas. These guys are paid handsomely so they'd wanna stop bitching & just coach. If true then cash is Kens only motive.Sorry
Here’s some of it
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport...e/news-story/2874fe0206924eb8d6a1b78425e5104c
KEN Hinkley has been on billboards. He has been the face of the Port Adelaide Football Club in television commercials. He has given a troubled football program at Alberton its strongest voice.
And it has worn him down, giving another insight on why AFL coaches – even the legendary Malcolm Blight – do not live the dream in Adelaide ... no matter how much they love their football club.
In the emotional turmoil that came with Port Adelaide’s last-kick exit in extra time of the elimination final against West Coast at Adelaide Oval on September 9, Hinkley – a master of controlling the agenda in a media conference – revealed all that was behind the imaging of the “Power coach”.
Hinkley was “Honest Ken”. He was Ken, the man. Not Ken, the coach.
He said: “I - like a lot of people - get sick to death of other stuff that comes with this game and that’s what challenges me, I suppose.”
After five years – needing to rebuild a football program to keep a football club alive – Hinkley revealed the strain (and drain) on him in just 25 words. In 25 words or less ...
There have been 12 full-time AFL coaches in Adelaide since the landscape of SA football was changed in 1991. Graham Cornes, Robert Shaw, Malcolm Blight, Gary Ayres, Neil Craig, Brenton Sanderson, Phil Walsh and Don Pyke at the Crows. John Cahill, Mark Williams, Matthew Primus and Hinkley at Port Adelaide.
And from the moment Shaw, in the mid-’90s, had his children picked on by their classmates in the schoolyard, the presentation of AFL senior coaches in Adelaide changed dramatically.
No more pictures of a coach with his wife (once a constant with Cornes and his wife, Nicole). Certainly no family pictures.
More and more, the “bubble” has extended far from the football club – at either West Lakes or Alberton. Pyke, now in his second year in Adelaide after sampling the environment a decade earlier as a Crows assistant coach, has maintained the lowest image while working in the highest-profile job in the state.
This is highlighted by Pyke known to leave his inner-southern suburban hideaway to wear a baseball cap over his eyes to avoid attention at the local supermarket. He does not want to be responsible for the emotional mood of the city, more so than the Premier, Jay Weatherill.
Just google the headline and go in from there.....paywalls can't keep out a google search result!Na just sayn the link didn't work.
I just reckon bringing in Rocky defeats the point of last years draft strategy. I'm a massive Motlop fan and by all means bring in another quality outside mid but I reckon I'd rather see Atley, Drew and SPP in there over Rocky on a good chunk of change.
Part of the problem is that our best kicks play in defence (Hartlett and Houston) while the players who struggle (like Ollie, Boak and Ebert) are the very players who deliver a lot of the ball into our forward line. And the scene that scares me the most is seeing Impey charge towards the forward line with ball in hand.
The coach has allowed our players to be soft. If you accept mediocrity then that's what you'll get. Workplaces are like that. The senior players of our team have a lot to answer for as well. Lobbe, Boak, Hartlett, Broadbent, Westhoff, Monfries, White and Krak have all underachieved for different reasons. Trengove also never reached any great heights but was stuffed around. Quite a few are low draft picks who played good footy for a couple of years only. Why? There are too many of them.Watching the Crows marching to what looks like a premiership makes this harder to take. I really feel our list is more talented than theirs. Shame we have such an incompetent coach.
Agree 100%. We need an accumulator in the midfield and he is that. His disposal is not that great but we need his strengths badly. Throw a lot of money at him to get him unless we can get Kelly of course. Lol.Inside mids are hardened bodies with experience. These guys win the hard ball and winning that ball gives you a far greater likelihood of winning a match. It was very apparent that we needed another inside mid at the end of this season. I am not banking on that need being filled by a guy who has played in 2 games (Atley) or a guy who was never even a look in for the AFL side this season (Drew). I'd argue that it's even more important we need a vet here because we could be in a premiership window by adding a guy such as Rockliff to the middle.
You don't say no to A Grade talent because you have a few nice teenagers in the 2nds who might make it at the AFL level.
Neither have I re Davies but Balme has done very well at 3 clubs. Find the problem and fix it Port.He is our General Manager of Football, never thought about this to much, you might be on to something here.
Yeah but it clearly shows our defence is premiership ready.
West Coast was only able to score 78 points against us and that included extra time.
Yep, gotta love modern Port Adelaide footy. Such loser mentality.Wingard misses two kicks cause he was trying to thread the needle since Dixon was outnumbered, as usual, because everyone was zoning and defending, like normal, because that's how Ken wants to play despite us having a list with much more natural attacking instinct than that other team that plays attacking footy all the way to the premiership. Defence first.
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Extend his contract too, that will fix it.Neither have I re Davies but Balme has done very well at 3 clubs. Find the problem and fix it Port.
The 'loser mentality' ain't in the club. It kinda comes thru on this forum, tho.Yep, gotta love modern Port Adelaide footy. Such loser mentality.
Yep stop whinging Ken and deliver. Then supporters will also stop whinging.Cheers for that. Having read that I'd say he knew full well what he was taking on & if it was too much for him to handle then Gold Coast was a softer option. If you're a coach in Victoria you'd go through the same dramas. These guys are paid handsomely so they'd wanna stop bitching & just coach. If true then cash is Kens only motive.
Ken by all accounts is a terrific caring man with admirable qualities however he needs to either find a way of coping better with the demands of being the head honcho of PAFC (The pressure is really only for 6 months of the year) or give the game away (never going to happen $$$).Yep stop whinging Ken and deliver. Then supporters will also stop whinging.