Opinion Sack Hinkley 11 - Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest

[GoPorts]

While everyone in the media will be patting Ken on the back and selling the narrative of “The Boys playing for Kenny” Was our 0.3 final term the lowest score a team has kicked in a qtr against St Kilda this season?

Those 3 points are for Kenny. Just a little more that there 2 cents the rest of us are worth to the club

 

[JohnHinckleyJr]

No wonder.we.turn to shit when the pressures on **** nucckle would be laying in the corner ****ing sobbing his eyes out like a bitch 5 mins before the first bounce ..

 

[crafty_bernardo]

Whately and Ken were practicing their crying over face-time with each other this week

 

[Powerade 08]

Kent Hinkley is a terrible person so he doesnt deserve any sympathy. Keep crying. If he wants anyone here to care he can start by not being a manipulating fuc kwit, not racing animals, not encouraging others to race animals, quitting and taking his son with him, etc.

 

[Launchpad McQuack]

The ****ing gall of the media to tell us to speak about people respectively given how they regularly talk about us.

What would you have us do Aiston you ****ing moron? If we don't show Hinkley the utmost contempt at this point, Koch will give him another 2 seasons. The board have left us no choice, and Hinkley has left us no choice.

Coming in and this point and telling us to be respectful is cooked. We've been completely disrespected for a decade by this administration.

 

[JimmyBC]

Respect is a two way street remember that when they all start carrying on this week.

 

[El_Scorcho]

Get ready for a week of Hinkley being praised because of the emotion he showed and how the 'mob' need to back off etc. from Whately and crew.

This is good, we 100% want this in the media all week again. We want every ****head in the media to tell us how unreasonable we are for booing, how we're bad supporters etc.

The more it's talked about, the louder the boos are this week.

I'm interstate so i'm not going which i'm absolutely spewing about because the banner would 100% be out this week.

 

[finbarr]

With tax time approaching, Hinkley's accountant probably phoned him during the week to tell him he'll be moving into a higher tax bracket. Hinkley stored the emotions he felt during that phone call in the back of his mind and cleverly drew on them during the Sarah Jones interview. Well played, con man.

 

[Ilias M]

Man cries after prolonging his six-figure job for another week.

Embarrassing the board have little regard

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[tribey]

I agree with the majority of what Mark has said here, but it's not up to him to be the social media police.

The man has probably earned around 7-8M at a bare minimum over the last 11 and a half years. The monetary compensation is commensurate with the issues that arise with being in such a position - that is, getting heckled both publicly and privately.

Furthermore, I would be more sympathetic had Ken not put the Club over a barrel at the end of the 2017 season, using the Suns interest to leverage himself into a contract that was so absurd in every facet of its detail that supporters have every right to be raged. All good will from then on was lost, because it was the moment he made himself bigger than the Club, and our custodians were stupid enough to bow down to him.

Ken is not bigger than the Club. Provided the angle from fans is wanting the Club to be better, Ken should be able to handle any and all heckling. If he can't, he's not fit for the role, because that's the very antithesis of Port Adelaide.

Yeah, I’m sympathetic to the concept of ‘mental health’ and all that goes with it for people in a given situation.

But, gee whiz.

It’s a little rich for anyone to play that card on his behalf given the situation Ken finds himself in.

As we well know here: No other coach in the history of the league, let alone this club, has collected the remuneration he has, over the timespan he has, delivered nothing, and lived to tell the tale.

He’s also provided us with shoeboxes and shoeboxes of receipts in the form of duplicitous soundbytes that absolutely wouldn’t fly at any other club in the competition — but most of them have safely gone through to the keeper because he’s well-protected by a media corps at home and in Melbourne, who serve as his personal bodyguard at the first sign of trouble.

Even Choco Williams made note of this unique situation 6 years ago in an interview with 5AA.

‘He has them eating out of the palm of his hand. It’s almost as if they apologise before asking a question’.

Quite simply, he’s faced the least scrutiny of just about any head coach of the past 20-odd years, and both times he’s finally faced a stretch of concerted heat from the media, past players or fans, he’s all but gone to water and been spotted blubbering on national TV.

If the kitchen really is too hot, and it’s not some form of sociopathic tactic, he’s got more than enough money from Port Adelaide to walk away and never have to worry about setting his alarm clock ever again.

 

[Doctor Feel]

I mean you may as well just never sack anyone ever

 

[Visenfest]

Assuming the $800K per season rumours are true, Ken would be taking home approx. $8.5K per week after tax. And he can’t handle some boos?

Cry. Me. A. F**king. River. Get your overpaid arse to a psychologist who will gladly listen to you whine for an hour.

Edit: I do believe mental health should be taken seriously, but when you’re on big money, there are big expectations of you. That’s life.

 

[finbarr]

Assuming the $800K per season rumours are true, Ken would be taking home approx. $8.5K per week after tax. And he can’t handle some boos?

Cry. Me. A. F**king. River. Get your overpaid arse to a psychologist who will gladly listen to you whine for an hour.

Edit: I do believe mental health should be taken seriously, but when you’re on big money, there are big expectations of you. That’s life.

It's not even just that. Hinkley chooses to be in an industry where getting booed is par for the course. He isn't getting booed because he's bald or because he's ugly, he's getting booed because he's a failure. Just grow a thicker skin or cash in your chips and go fishing.

 

[backtozero]

He's never been one to take negative feedback. Remember when he took issue with Ditts critiquing him on radio several years ago, or the death stare he gave a journalist before standing up and leaving a presser?

If he's fighting back the tears after the week he's just had (and I do believe that was genuine, by the way) then he will be a blubbering mess after the Bulldogs re-enact the 2021 final.

 

[PowerLil]

Wow. Just listened to a bit of the post match interview with Sarah Jones. And the Oscar goes to.........

 

[pastmyprimus]

I’m guessing he’s concocted that teary performance with his manager. It’s a sign of desperation.

Anyway, Hinkley might think he’s won today’s battle against his sacking but I’m confident he’ll lose the war.

 

[Kenny_Powers]

The tears will now bring kens "mental health" into the conversation, and the media will resultantly push for the board to come out, put the speculation to bed, and back him in until the end of the year at a min.

I genuinely don't wont anyone to suffer mentally, but it really is a situation where, if you know your not upto it, and your teams performance isn't upto it, then remove yourself....its been 12 years, youve had a crack.

We are absolutely shithouse atm, had we played anyone else today we wouldve lost, on that performance alone nothing has changed.

Ken should step down, do something selfless for a change, genuinely.


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[Lefti93]

Didn't he cry after the Sydney game last year? Hardly surprising.

 

[KrispyKremeMullanikka]

 

[Sewer de Lance]

What’s next, AFL 360 playing the Schindler’s List soundtrack over images of teary Ken?

 

[b0ydman Jr]

What’s next, AFL 360 playing the Schindler’s List soundtrack over images of teary Ken?

Don't give them any ideas

 

[Doctor Feel]

Today convinced me we are well and truly on the way to a premiership this year. All speculation firmly tucked up in bed. Go power

 

[ZeroGlass]

Everybody wants to rule the world.

 

[pastmyprimus]

Wow. Just listened to a bit of the post match interview with Sarah Jones. And the Oscar goes to.........

He should win a Golden Raspberry award for the most disingenuous attempt at emotion by a b grade actor

 

[Grave Danger]

Like clockwork the "mental health" card is being played



"After seeing Ken’s interview after Ports narrow win against the St”s it made me think about how important it is to speak to people or about people more respectfully"

~ Mark Aiston



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I was going to say it looks like Mark is still working from home, but that would be disrespectful, so I thought better of it.