So only Kenny Hinkley and no one else saved the club from folding and only Kenny Hinkley had the ability to do that?
The only thing we didn't do, is hire a Premiership capable coach.
We had our chances with hardwick and Chris Scott and probably a bunch of others but we settled for the dodgy used car salesman and invested millions in the fraud.
This is your argument now, that we haven't bottomed out? FMD, you're clutching aren't you.
And Ken came in and gave us a quick boost (sugar hit) to narrowly miss winning a Prelim final v the Hawks.
As per the OP my intention was to add Part 2: ‘The Rap Sheet’ at about this time. I’ve been asked about it.
Instead I’ve edited and added to the OP, including my opinion on what went down after Koch’s nitwit end-2017 extension of Hinkley in seasons 2018 and 2019, plus mention of 2020 and 2021. For those who’ve read the OP, a browse will reveal the sections added with their new sub-titles.
The excerpt that follows has been added at the end:
(Excerpt)
The 2021 preliminary final brought to us, swept up by and carried upon its odiferous slipstream, a second buzzword.
“ABOMINATION!”
In Imperial China, to commit an ‘abomination’ was a crime against society punishable by a term on
public display with the accused’s neck, at a minimum, clamped in the stocks. This victim (above) has
kindly co-operated by adopting Hinkley’s characteristic coaching-box pose and death-row expression.
Chairman Moi would instead suggest the criminal depicted here in the stocks is not the Club’s senior
coach but our GM Football, George Costanza, as he it was who uttered the word: “Abomination!” in
front of the press a few days after the 2021 preliminary final.
George was the only Club executive to make any genuine comment at the time … and still is, months
later. Hinkley, having been ordered to present himself at the studio, was reluctantly interviewed by
Tredrea on radio on the Friday evening after George’s honesty rang out like a warning bell through
the storm and shone like a lighthouse above the rocks. All Hinkley could offer at the interview, five
days after his pathologically inept post-match presser, was: “I wouldn’t change a thing.”
I first met George in Shanghai in late 2016. In fact he was sitting on the other side of Ken Hinkley
at the Sichuanese dinner that I have described earlier in this OP. In the same time that it has taken
me to recognise Hinkley for the rotten apple in our shaky barrel that he is, I have determined that
George is the opposite, KBH’s alter-ego - a bright shiny rosy red apple prepared to seek out advice
and receive input and to never take observations personally. How George has tolerated Ken Bloody
Hinkley for as long as he has is beyond me. Perhaps he is serving a penance for something he did in
a previous life.
One thing on which I can vouch for brave, honest, intelligent George Costanza in this life
is that, if he calls a coaching performance an ABOMINATION … it’s an abomination.
The Accused looking small in the dock. “It’s a tough competition. Someone’s gotta lose. I’ve always said that.
I’ve always lost … except when it really didn’t matter … and when I’m up against Kochie. I always win those.”
You're definitely one of those flogs who's appeared self-represented in court 50 times and lost every single one of them.
Now I want to read it more
I have you on ignore but this is too juicy to pass by. First of all, hello Ken. Remember me?
Take this one straight to the top, my dude.
iM oUTrAgeD
Sacked from the club probably says it all. No need to comment further.
Oh goodness me, yes.
Fester Addams looks for the honeys.
