Opinion Sack Hinkley 10 - UnTENable

[jackster83]

You guys should chip in to hire one of these:



Imagine that on Port Rd with "sack Hinkley" on it.

 

[FrankDrebin]

That Bergman interview is quite damning. I mean anyone who has watched us the past 10 years would say that the ganeplan is built around quantity of I50 not quality. But to see a player openly admit that is the gameplan, that it's successful, and it ls an enjoyable style to play is mind boggling.

Everyone inside the club seem to believe that kicking inside 50s is more important than kicking goals. Staggering.

 

[1954]

Fringe players have probably done it regularly, but my only recollection of first choice players at Alberton transferring to another club to be with their original coach was when Kevin Beswick, Ray Hayes and Neville Thiele transferred to Westies when Fos Williams was replaced by Jack Cahill, and I expect the chances of anyone of note particularly someone of Butters quality getting the hump and following kern anywhere would be next to zero.

If the PAFC is down in the boondocks when his contract is next up for renewal, or when he becomes a free agent is an entirely different matter!

 

[Cheesey Mac]

This players are shaped in the image of their coach, defending a garbage system and parroting what they've been taught. Unfortunately what they've been taught is a loser mentality and the public acceptance of mediocrity, I mean, this just oozes from Bottom 10 Ken and poisons anyone close to him.

 

[Capital Power]

By corollary then, the kicking of behinds is actually encouraged as it ensures the ball stays in F50?

 

[johnnysix]

That Bergman interview is quite damning. I mean anyone who has watched us the past 10 years would say that the ganeplan is built around quantity of I50 not quality. But to see a player openly admit that is the gameplan, that it's successful, and it ls an enjoyable style to play is mind boggling.

Everyone inside the club seem to believe that kicking inside 50s is more important than kicking goals. Staggering.

This matches what Butters said after the game last week. Butters stated that they specifically avoided 'shallow inside 50's', which basically rules out most of your forward leads. Clearly we just want to press up and lock it in deep. Which to me, absolutely cane's your midfield, and relegates your tall forwards to just bringing the ball to ground and explains why we get so many forwards to the contest with almost no separation. It's the most one-note game plan ever. The other thing I have noticed is we're at our best when we're playing as an exception to that game plan. It's why we look most dangerous when our mids are running forward and kicking goals. Imagine being a tall forward in this system? Even better yet, try an imagine being THE key forward in this system, having your body completely smashed year after year, just to be a backboard for our long bombs and then going out and attacking the supporters in defense of this system? It's nuts.

It's also interesting that not only are we finally getting 'journos' questioning our system, but we're also getting players speak in some detail on it. Usually you get the trite comment along the lines of 'we back in our system, we just need to work harder for longer'. There's something a bit more here.

 

[Doctor Feel]

lol i just remembered that Kane Corner had a short lived career at Harris Real Estate after his 5 minutes in the fire service.

 

[PortPortPort]

Is it because Hinkley was a defender so his mission in football is to make defenders look good but not ours.

 

[Grave Danger]

This also belongs in the Shakes Head thread, but anyway. I'd change that last sentence to any variation of: "Sack Hinkley"

We should be admiring Ken Hinkley's refreshing honesty​

It's easy to crush Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley for opting to play skipper Connor Rozee

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Connor Rozee

Age

24

Ht

185cm

Wt

79kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

14.6

4star

K

7.6

3star

HB

7.0

4star

M

3.3

3star

T

3.6

5star

CL

1.0

3star

D

12.8

3star

K

7.4

3star

HB

5.3

3star

M

2.9

3star

T

2.4

3star

CL

1.6

4star

D

16.4

4star

K

8.0

3star

HB

8.4

5star

M

4.2

4star

T

3.4

5star

CL

0.8

3star

in last Thursday night's Showdown.

Rozee strained his hamstring in Round 7's win over St Kilda, but was never ruled out of the following game against cross-town rival Adelaide and would ultimately suit up for the contest. Unfortunately, he aggravated the injury and is now expected to miss several weeks.

"There's always a risk with any injury to a hamstring of any type," said Hinkley ahead of the Showdown. "So for those people who are sitting there with the doomsday saying 'you're taking a big risk', we're taking a normal risk with an injury like this."

Hinkley was right. He and the club took a gamble that didn't pay off. It happens, and now Port Adelaide has been left to deal with the consequences. But it would be totally naive to pretend these type of roll-the-dice decisions aren't made day in, day out at club level. You can't only have a problem with it when it doesn't pan out.

Cut Hinkley some slack for admitting and owning the mistake and let's all move on.

Sidebottom needs to consider retirement; cut Ken Hinkley some slack

This week's Six Points features the decline of Steele Sidebottom, the most improved players of the year, why we should praise Ken Hinkley, and the very strange -- and worrying -- Rory Laird trend.

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[Bump Bailey]

This also belongs in the Shakes Head thread, but anyway. I'd change that last sentence to any variation of: "Sack Hinkley"

We should be admiring Ken Hinkley's refreshing honesty​

It's easy to crush Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley for opting to play skipper Connor Rozee in last Thursday night's Showdown.

Rozee strained his hamstring in Round 7's win over St Kilda, but was never ruled out of the following game against cross-town rival Adelaide and would ultimately suit up for the contest. Unfortunately, he aggravated the injury and is now expected to miss several weeks.

"There's always a risk with any injury to a hamstring of any type," said Hinkley ahead of the Showdown. "So for those people who are sitting there with the doomsday saying 'you're taking a big risk', we're taking a normal risk with an injury like this."

Hinkley was right. He and the club took a gamble that didn't pay off. It happens, and now Port Adelaide has been left to deal with the consequences. But it would be totally naive to pretend these type of roll-the-dice decisions aren't made day in, day out at club level. You can't only have a problem with it when it doesn't pan out.

Cut Hinkley some slack for admitting and owning the mistake and let's all move on.

Sidebottom needs to consider retirement; cut Ken Hinkley some slack

This week's Six Points features the decline of Steele Sidebottom, the most improved players of the year, why we should praise Ken Hinkley, and the very strange -- and worrying -- Rory Laird trend.

www.espn.com.au

**** off ESPN.

 

[PowerLil]

This also belongs in the Shakes Head thread, but anyway. I'd change that last sentence to any variation of: "Sack Hinkley"

We should be admiring Ken Hinkley's refreshing honesty​

It's easy to crush Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley for opting to play skipper Connor Rozee in last Thursday night's Showdown.

Rozee strained his hamstring in Round 7's win over St Kilda, but was never ruled out of the following game against cross-town rival Adelaide and would ultimately suit up for the contest. Unfortunately, he aggravated the injury and is now expected to miss several weeks.

"There's always a risk with any injury to a hamstring of any type," said Hinkley ahead of the Showdown. "So for those people who are sitting there with the doomsday saying 'you're taking a big risk', we're taking a normal risk with an injury like this."

Hinkley was right. He and the club took a gamble that didn't pay off. It happens, and now Port Adelaide has been left to deal with the consequences. But it would be totally naive to pretend these type of roll-the-dice decisions aren't made day in, day out at club level. You can't only have a problem with it when it doesn't pan out.

Cut Hinkley some slack for admitting and owning the mistake and let's all move on.

Sidebottom needs to consider retirement; cut Ken Hinkley some slack

This week's Six Points features the decline of Steele Sidebottom, the most improved players of the year, why we should praise Ken Hinkley, and the very strange -- and worrying -- Rory Laird trend.

www.espn.com.au

I wonder how "refreshingly honest" creepy Kenny would have been if Connor had ripped the hamstring off the bone and required say, surgery?

 

[longdonkey]

I wonder how "refreshingly honest" creepy Kenny would have been if Connor had ripped the hamstring off the bone and required say, surgery?

Word is he'll be out for 2-3 minimum.

 

[PowerLil]

Word is he'll be out for 2-3 minimum.

Great. We're so lucky to have Ken.

 

[Bump Bailey]

lol i just remembered that Kane Corner had a short lived career at Harris Real Estate after his 5 minutes in the fire service.

Rumour has it he was let go after showing a couple through a home. They said it wasn't what they were after, and his response was "well what else are you gonna get?"

 

[Enviable Tradition]

Isn't he studying medicine? He'd be the smartest player on our list for sure I'd think.

Edit: For the record I'm not disputing that what he said was incredibly dumb. Its more that its just very strange when a smart person is saying dumb things.

Smart enough to realise how sensitive our coach is to criticism.

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[tribey]

This also belongs in the Shakes Head thread, but anyway. I'd change that last sentence to any variation of: "Sack Hinkley"

We should be admiring Ken Hinkley's refreshing honesty​

It's easy to crush Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley for opting to play skipper Connor Rozee in last Thursday night's Showdown.

Rozee strained his hamstring in Round 7's win over St Kilda, but was never ruled out of the following game against cross-town rival Adelaide and would ultimately suit up for the contest. Unfortunately, he aggravated the injury and is now expected to miss several weeks.

"There's always a risk with any injury to a hamstring of any type," said Hinkley ahead of the Showdown. "So for those people who are sitting there with the doomsday saying 'you're taking a big risk', we're taking a normal risk with an injury like this."

Hinkley was right. He and the club took a gamble that didn't pay off. It happens, and now Port Adelaide has been left to deal with the consequences. But it would be totally naive to pretend these type of roll-the-dice decisions aren't made day in, day out at club level. You can't only have a problem with it when it doesn't pan out.

Cut Hinkley some slack for admitting and owning the mistake and let's all move on.

Sidebottom needs to consider retirement; cut Ken Hinkley some slack

This week's Six Points features the decline of Steele Sidebottom, the most improved players of the year, why we should praise Ken Hinkley, and the very strange -- and worrying -- Rory Laird trend.

www.espn.com.au

We should praise Gary Glitter for installing a Net Nanny.

 

[philreich]

This also belongs in the Shakes Head thread, but anyway. I'd change that last sentence to any variation of: "Sack Hinkley"

We should be admiring Ken Hinkley's refreshing honesty​

It's easy to crush Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley for opting to play skipper Connor Rozee in last Thursday night's Showdown.

Rozee strained his hamstring in Round 7's win over St Kilda, but was never ruled out of the following game against cross-town rival Adelaide and would ultimately suit up for the contest. Unfortunately, he aggravated the injury and is now expected to miss several weeks.

"There's always a risk with any injury to a hamstring of any type," said Hinkley ahead of the Showdown. "So for those people who are sitting there with the doomsday saying 'you're taking a big risk', we're taking a normal risk with an injury like this."

Hinkley was right. He and the club took a gamble that didn't pay off. It happens, and now Port Adelaide has been left to deal with the consequences. But it would be totally naive to pretend these type of roll-the-dice decisions aren't made day in, day out at club level. You can't only have a problem with it when it doesn't pan out.

Cut Hinkley some slack for admitting and owning the mistake and let's all move on.

Sidebottom needs to consider retirement; cut Ken Hinkley some slack

This week's Six Points features the decline of Steele Sidebottom, the most improved players of the year, why we should praise Ken Hinkley, and the very strange -- and worrying -- Rory Laird trend.

www.espn.com.au

I don't want to cut him some slack - I want to cut him loose.

 

[Hodges 153!]

ROFL - a one week hamstring that's in actual fact 2 or three.

Thats a fairly moronic "roll of the dice".

 

[wgt]

lol i just remembered that Kane Corner had a short lived career at Harris Real Estate after his 5 minutes in the fire service.

well he brought one of the best houses in the most secluded street at a great location with his real estate connections, i dont think it went to market

 

[TeeKray]

I can't remember a single instance in the last 10 years of a player following a coach to wherever they end

Dale Thomas is probably the best example but it's not very common.

Either way, as long as it's not Horne-Francis, who cares.

 

[Doctor Feel]

This is what is in Kens head on the bench:

 

[Grave Danger]

I can't remember a single instance in the last 10 years of a player following a coach to wherever they end

I'm sure Ross the Boss has got Zac Dawson tucked away in some role or other.

 

[Butters and Pepper]

If we are talking more broadly, the most obvipus example I can think of is John Paynter moving from Glenelg to Sturt to follow Halbert in early 80s.

 

[simba_]

Screw Winning: We should be admiring Ken Hinkley's refreshing honesty

 

[philreich]

Screw Winning: We should be admiring Ken Hinkley's refreshing honesty

I'll only "admire" Ken when he utters the words "I quit".