Opinion Non-Crows AFL 11

[El Doederino]

I reckon he might walk if they go out in straight sets.

Would you walk away from a million dollars?

 

[Geoffa32]

Sacking Ken won't fix Port anyway.

Very shallow depth, and their best players struggle when the game is not easy.

 

[1970crow]

Would you walk away from a million dollars?

I don't think he'll be doing that, he'll walk into the Eagles job. Plus he'd negotiate at least one year payout if he's going to 5his a year off.

 

[PeterSalt]

Sacking Ken won't fix Port anyway.

Very shallow depth, and their best players struggle when the game is not easy.

I look back to the last showdown and wonder why they can't replicate that intensity on a weekly basis ..?

Even Boak was playing angry

Yet it comes to a final and they looked meek and overawed, pathetic even

Weirdly the last 2-3 showdowns they've tried to go hard physically, it just felt like this last 1 they got the physicality about right. Well bar Houston shirt fronting Rankine

As a playing group they seem really conflicted - do we try and follow a Kenny's "decent" game plan, or do we listen to all the old guard and play the man (be a dirty campaigner and get suspended)

Being a dirty campaigner doesn't seem to resonate with a large part of their list

 

[Geoffa32]

I don't think he'll be doing that, he'll walk into the Eagles job. Plus he'd negotiate at least one year payout if he's going to 5his a year off.

Why would Don Pyke hire his coaching bunny?

 

[Geoffa32]

I look back to the last showdown and wonder why they can't replicate that intensity on a weekly basis ..?

Even Boak was playing angry

Yet it comes to a final and they looked meek and overawed, pathetic even

Weirdly the last 2-3 showdowns they've tried to go hard physically, it just felt like this last 1 they got the physicality about right. Well bar Houston shirt fronting Rankine

As a playing group they seem really conflicted - do we try and follow a Kenny's "decent" game plan, or do we listen to all the old guard and play the man (be a dirty campaigner and get suspended)

Being a dirty campaigner doesn't seem to resonate with a large part of their list

We are a bottom 4 side....

 

[Dangerousfield]

Port with the second chance home final, and still serious outsiders. It's very amusing seeing the media defend Hinkley in one breath, stating how good of a coach he is, yet with the next breath tip Hawks to beat them because ...... reasons. No one apart from David King seems willing to highlight how bad of a coach he is.

Think this is a good take. The team on paper looks ok but Ken continuously gets them finishing much higher than the actual team quality should.

The pressure goes up considerably in finals and they get exposed as a mid table list. The superstar mids carry them and now missing Houston who is probably one of their most important players after the big three mids.

 

[PeterSalt]

We are a bottom 4 side....

Yes .. why do they try hard against us .. yet roll over for a tummy scratch against victorian teams?

And yet we also beat them on our 3 previous meetings?

 

[kirky]

Think Mick Malthouse called it correctly yesterday - does Ken want to coach for 1 year or 5 years?

If it is one year then coach Port next year and exit or if it is 5 years, then go and coach West Coast.

 

[Eagleboy2011]

Think this is a good take. The team on paper looks ok but Ken continuously gets them finishing much higher than the actual team quality should.

The pressure goes up considerably in finals and they get exposed as a mid table list. The superstar mids carry them and now missing Houston who is probably one of their most important players after the big three mids.

fwiw If Ken coached the Crows, we would be placed much higher than with Nicks at the helm.

 

[PeterSalt]

Think Mick Malthouse called it correctly yesterday - does Ken want to coach for 1 year or 5 years?

If it is one year then coach Port next year and exit or if it is 5 years, then go and coach West Coast.

Why the heck would WC even entertain Captain Kenny?

Pyke coached against him and smashed him

 

[FR0GGY]

Poster on the Port board who claims to be ITK is saying if Port lose on Friday Ken will be gone by Tuesday. Grain of salt, of course.

Absolutely he will be, he’ll jump before he’s pushed.
Could walk into the west coast job tomorrow.

 

[Gtowncrow]

fwiw If Ken coached the Crows, we would be placed much higher than with Nicks at the helm.

And if #Eagleboy2011 coached the crows, he'd get us higher than both of them.

 

[Jcpdragonx]

Sacking Ken won't fix Port anyway.

Very shallow depth, and their best players struggle when the game is not easy.

Think their issue is workrate when they turn it over, opp run and carry with speed against them and they get players one out, and when it hits the deck port defenders are at sea. happened all night. also for some reason, the entire midfield unit bar horne francis goes to water.

 

[footy4ever]

He continuously let's them play a style of footy in the home & away season which does not stand up in finals.

That is on the coach, no-one else.

They don't have a forward line. That's the list.

 

[kirky]

Why the heck would WC even entertain Captain Kenny?

Pyke coached against him and smashed him

I’m not saying they would but if they did then Ken has a decision - does he want to coach or does he want to retire (after next year)?

 

[Geoffa32]

I’m not saying they would but if they did then Ken has a decision - does he want to coach or does he want to retire (after next year)?

Every time there is heat on Ken, and a job is available Cos Cardone's media stooges trot out the "Ken is in demand" line.

WCE/Don Pyke don't want him. Just media BS.

 

[WaynesWorld19]

He's gotta be the biggest dropkick in the footy media .....just behind that Immortal Twit, John Ralph

 

[jackster83]

He's gotta be the biggest dropkick in the footy media .....just behind that Immortal Twit, John Ralph

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The football media really does suck.

 

[Mr_Moogle]

He's gotta be the biggest dropkick in the footy media .....just behind that Immortal Twit, John Ralph

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Wayne is the Sam McClure of the Adelaide board.

 

[daniel_4tw]

Sam McClure is the worst in the business.

Has absolutely no clue.

West Coast won’t pick Reid. Carlton will win the flag.

Even had a cry when the Courts stripped him of his ‘award’ for the camp bullshit.

Joke of a ‘journalist’.

 

[aabp1978]

seems Geelong's never ending salary cap about to come into play again...Bailey Smith

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Bailey Smith

Age

23

Ht

185cm

Wt

86kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

18.3

5star

K

8.5

3star

HB

9.8

5star

M

2.3

2star

T

3.8

5star

CL

2.7

4star

D

19.8

5star

K

9.6

4star

HB

10.2

5star

M

1.8

2star

T

3.2

4star

CL

3.2

4star

D

14.8

4star

K

7.6

3star

HB

7.2

5star

M

2.0

3star

T

3.4

5star

CL

1.6

4star

on the move...

 

[DJ75]

seems Geelong's never ending salary cap about to come into play again...Bailey Smith on the move...

Will win the premiership and then add another million dollar a year player.
You have to wonder how...

 

[Scorpus]

Will win the premiership and then add another million dollar a year player.
You have to wonder how...

Destination club + old list + only 6 players signed for 2027 season = plenty of room for acquisitions

In fact the list of players signed to 2027 and beyond (Holmes, Stengle, Z. Guthrie, J. Henry, Bruhn, Stewart) is pretty lackluster. They should have heaps of cap space.

 

[DJ75]

Destination club + old list + only 6 players signed for 2027 season = plenty of room for acquisitions

In fact the list of players signed to 2027 and beyond (Holmes, Stengle, Z. Guthrie, J. Henry, Bruhn, Stewart) is pretty lackluster. They should have heaps of cap space.

Yet they will still be able to sign up all the players they want without an issue.

I'm sorry, but there's a smell that isn't right. Don't forget they took on a significant contract for a player they didn't really want only what a year (2?) ago.