Opinion Sack Hinkley 11 - Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest

[Grave Danger]

Can't sack him today. Phil Walsh.

 

[JayPea14]

Not a fan of this stuff. Boo him, sure. Attack him on his record, absolutely. But if you start bullying a man for crying, then we're starting to genuinely look like the unfeeling angry mob that Whateley and co have been trying to paint us as.

Carn.

 

[tribey]

"Under intense external scrutiny last week, Port Adelaide proved it's football program is still sound"

Ummm we kicked eight goals..... with a blistering three point final term while holding on for dear life against the 15th ranked St Kilda. Was I watching a different match?

This is precisely the sort of atrocious messaging that only adds fuel to the fire.

Reminiscent of Rucci’s THREE separate attempts to smear lipstick on a pig in the aftermath of the 2021 Prelim, finally settling on trumpeting Voss’ getting the Carlton job as another rousing vindication for HiNkLeY’s FoOtBaLL pRoGrAm.

Goebbels levels of cope.

 

[Doctor Feel]

the propaganda lol

 

[Long live PAFC]

Not a fan of this stuff. Boo him, sure. Attack him on his record, absolutely. But if you start bullying a man for crying, then we're starting to genuinely look like the unfeeling angry mob that Whateley and co have been trying to paint us as.

Spot on.

No need for character or personal attacks. Let the frustration with his AFL coaching record do the talking.

 

[EskimoPAFC]

Before the season began not many people would have had us beating St Kilda so to those that doubted us where are you now? Huh?

 

[malcheski]

"Under intense external scrutiny last week, Port Adelaide proved it's football program is still sound"

Ummm we kicked eight goals..... with a blistering three point final term while holding on for dear life against the 15th ranked St Kilda. Was I watching a different match?

Yeh, sounds like this:

 

[Launchpad McQuack]

Man who is paid $700k to care says he cares. What a guy.

 

[Palpatine_Power]

Man who is paid $700k to care says he cares. What a guy.

Yep, happened last time he got a rocket. We won 13 in a row.

That categorically will not happen this time but it's interesting when the effort appears.

 

[PowerLil]

Man who is paid $700k to care says he cares. What a guy.

He’s not there to care. He’s there to get the team to perform at its optimum and win a premiership. Twelve years tells me he can’t so get rid of him.

 

[Harlott]

Not a fan of this stuff. Boo him, sure. Attack him on his record, absolutely. But if you start bullying a man for crying, then we're starting to genuinely look like the unfeeling angry mob that Whateley and co have been trying to paint us as.

Yep. Means the focus is on a personal nature rather than the main issue itself.

 

[KrispyKremeMullanikka]

Question. Why did Ken do he’s presser today? Very weird.

 

[simba_]

"no need for personal attacks" we joke about his wife and son daily, crying after beating a VFL side is nothing in comparison

 

[Willsy10]

There is a pretty huge gulf between, posting stuff about the coach on a forum to physically throwing tissues at him because he was emotional last weekend.

I'm probably in the no boo camp unless we are getting flogged too.

 

[MrMeaner]

I have had to read a lot of medical and psychological reports. They all start by describing how the subject presented to their consultation. If someone had turned up looking like Hinkley did to that presser, it would be a basis for concluding they were struggling to cope.

 

[TazD]

Kleenex is out but what about donuts?

 

[GremioPower]

The more this goes on the worse it all gets to everybody.And most of the responsibility falls on those who can actually end it all.

If people ultimately cross lines, it won’t be for lack of warnings. So, no one can act as if surprised.

 

[GremioPower]

Kleenex is out but what about donuts?

Wasn’t there a story involving bathrooms and toilet papers?

 

[GremioPower]

 

[ctpower]

Rucci has issues - the man was taking so many "free" cokes from Adelaide Oval on gameday that the SMA imposed a limit on how many drinks each member of the media could have per game.

I heard that from someone else too.
Not a great look.

 

[Schulzenfest]

"no need for personal attacks" we joke about his wife and son daily, crying after beating a VFL side is nothing in comparison

On a forum. If you started yelling abuse to him about his wife and son while he's standing on the sidelines at the football, you'd be an arseh*le. You'd also be playing directly into Whateley, Kane, Caro, Barrett etc's hands.

 

[EskimoPAFC]

The more this goes on the worse it all gets to everybody.And most of the responsibility falls on those who can actually end it all.

If people ultimately cross lines, it won’t be for lack of warnings. So, no one can act as if surprised.

So sad to think all this predictable stuff could have been avoided by just not renewing an 11 year failed coach at the end of last year.

 

[Schulzenfest]

Kleenex is out but what about donuts?

Probably not a great idea to throw anything on the field, but the 'donuts' meme is about his coaching record rather than anything personal, so if you want to wave a box of Donut King around on camera that'd be fair game.

 

[MrMeaner]

I don't joke about his son. I complain about Hinkley getting his son a job with the club and the club accepting it. There is a difference.

 

[elbarton]

The issue with the personal gags, trivial as they may be, is that is gives people who are less judicious license to use them at a time, and in a way, that will completely vindicate Caro, Gerard, Kane et al