Coach Ken Hinkley - A Kim Beazley coach, a Dr Seuss game plan and BEREFT of ideas

[Alberton Proud]

I read that in Raymond J. Bartholomeuz's voice.

I am an isthmus

 

[Portology]

As much as I'm amused and entertained by the analogies, I've always had this one in mind.

Just run.
Kinda simple.
Dumb luck to get the things you want.

if only our game plan was as unpredictable as that proverbial box of chocolates

 

[EskimoPAFC]

This is offensive to Kim Beazley, Dr Seuss, and whoever invented the word bereft.

 

[GremioPower]

Don't give them an inch for being lazy to understand the real weakness of coach Ken Hinkley - lovely bloke and all - but doesn't have the Ticker come September.

Being a cat, Hinkley has 9 lives.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

No Ticker.

Easier for Longmire to read than a Cat in Hat book.

 

[shewho]

“I have a plan”, said the bald headed man
“You don’t understand but a plan is a plan
This plan is a plan that should probably be canned
But a plan is a plan” said the bald headed man

 

[Ported]

I'm sorry but the homer boxing episode is the perfect comparison. Ken even looks like homer.

H&A season:



Finals:

 

[Ported]

Mo is Gerard Whateley

 

[Chewy316]

"Bereft of ideas" is the most apt term to describe his current state.

Yesterday's interview was an absolute disaster, and showed he still has no answers other than turning up and hoping for the best.

 

[PA88]

His game plan, or the way we play it, is obviously being implemented with the reserves although they are really bad with it, but I am convinced from what I have seen that it is being implemented in the woman's team as well. It's harder to see it because of their ability level but I reckon it's there, which I think reflects poorly on their coach. I hate it and I fear it being our style even beyond Hinkley.

 

[tribey]

His game plan, or the way we play it, is obviously being implemented with the reserves although they are really bad with it, but I am convinced from what I have seen that it is being implemented in the woman's team as well. It's harder to see it because of their ability level but I reckon it's there, which I think reflects poorly on their coach. I hate it and I fear it being our style even beyond Hinkley.

Especially when there’s this wider view that Hinkley is a mastercoach getting blood from a stone with system alone, a la Ross Lyon’s Freo or Craigy’s Crowbots.

Every momentous win we’ve ever had has been a result of your Chad Wingards, Robbie Grays, Ollie Wineses, Travis Boaks, Aliir Aliirs, Zak Butterseses, Jason Horne-Franciseseses and other situationally magnificent players going absolutely HAM.

 

[PJ Power]

Especially when there’s this wider view that Hinkley is a mastercoach getting blood from a stone with system alone, a la Ross Lyon’s Freo or Craigy’s Crowbots.

Every momentous win we’ve ever had has been a result of your Chad Wingards, Robbie Grays, Ollie Wineses, Travis Boaks, Aliir Aliirs, Zak Butterseses, Jason Horne-Franciseseses and other situationally magnificent players going absolutely HAM.

And that's why when those players have not got it done in finals, we have looked so out of our depth.

 

[tribey]

And that's why when those players have not got it done in finals, we have looked so out of our depth.

Exactly!

Which is why the prevailing media and neutral fan groupthink that we need to surround the Pavliches, Fyfes, McLeods and Ricciutos with more superstars and less Subans, Ibbotsons, Perries and Torneys is so maddening.

We had nine past, present or future All-Australians in the team that took the field for the 2021 Prelim (Gray, Boak, Wines, Rozee, Butters, Aliir, Houston, Dixon, DBJ), with a further two players who had made the AA40 (Jonas x 3, Amon).

That’s literally half the first team who at one point or another had or would soon be considered the cream of the crop, league-wide.

Yet afterwards, when they were played off the park by an obscenely vulnerable and adversity-addled opponent, the coach always gets to hide behind the annual “ahhh he did well to fling such a useless bag of sh¡t so far in the first place” excuse (pictured).

Goodness me.

 

[JohnHinckleyJr]

We need to reverse kanga the season play shit scrape into the finals then implement the normal season plan ..

 

[Hot Port]

So sick of this guy! Kept selling himself like he deserved another chance. You had 10
Years! Just get rid of him now!

 

[rogerjames]

From now on, until we finally have to get rid of Ken, this is how we have to describe him to the media. This is how i will describe him.

Like Kim Beazley - Ken doesn't have the Ticker to win the big one. Like Kim, he's a lovely bloke, capable, more than competent, but not leadership material to win you the premiership.

Dr Seuss game plan - its as easy as one of his The Cat in the Hat books to read. Chris Scott explained how easy it is to understand and pick apart.

BEREFT of ideas - only goes in with his standard game plan, but can't change things on the run, because he has very little ideas outside his set routine. Isn't a 360 degrees type thinker. Bereft is the best word I can think of to explain his coaching ideas.

So if you get a chance to speak or write in the media about Ken, think about describing him this way. Explain his failings.

His game plan has gone from kick it to the bloody shithouse and run forward to win the territory game, get it out of bounce and try and win the throw in, and we kept with that until 2019, then in 2020 it straightens up to become bomb it to Charlie and hope for the best from our small forwards crumbing the pack, who tend to worry more about defensive pressure than kicking goals.

Its not a high press, its an unnecessary high high press, so that when we play the good sides, and the heat is really on, they easily pick us apart, we get caught out, and they stream down to their forward line and kick lots of goals from their goal.

We have to bash and crash, get marks out wide and a long way from goal, its always hard work for Port to kick goals against the good teams, and no wonder our players are beaten up come September.

So if you talk to the media - ask them why their analysis of Port's game plan has as much depth to it as a flea's footprint?

Is it because that's how deep Ken is?

Ask them why do they want to boof Ken, have homoerotic feelings towards him, I know Jerry Seinfeld said there is nothing wrong with it, but there is when you are supposed be a well paid analyst of the game, and ask them why they can't understand the Dr Seuss simple game plan is why we fail.

Don't give them an inch for being lazy to understand the real weakness of coach Ken Hinkley - lovely bloke and all - but doesn't have the Ticker come September.

Can't agree with the lovely bloke bit. More like he's a stubborn buffoon. I also think it doesn't suit their agenda to challenge Ken. Curious to know if you've been working with the club this year?

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Can't agree with the lovely bloke bit. More like he's a stubborn buffoon. I also think it doesn't suit their agenda to challenge Ken. Curious to know if you've been working with the club this year?

I did very little with the club last year as my dad got cancer and passed away near the end of the minor round, and I did even less with them this year.