Certified Legendary Thread Sack Hinkley 12 - Finals Are Scary

[dirty2]

I missed out on seeing them at the 2004 big day out as they pulled out after the young girl got trampled in the sydney concert mosh pit.

Yeah i went 2004 and wanted to see LB... Ended up in the boiler room for hours lol.. They copped alot of shit for the girl dying If remember correctly... But I did get to see them a few years later which was awesome.

 

[JimmyBC]

Ahh the old you made a spelling mistake instead of answering the question.

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Ahh the old Tredrea is supposed to get the numbers within 12 months to topple a rusted on regime.

 

[Shaucob_Burjan]

Ken is constantly telling the media that he's brave and wouldn't be in the job if he couldn't take the toll and pressure.

*Takes extra long break because of it.

 

[JimmyBC]

Hasn't been seen here for over a month.

Kidnapped by the Hinkley Brethren.

 

[PowerLil]

Ken is constantly telling the media that he's brave and wouldn't be in the job if he couldn't take the toll and pressure.

*Takes extra long break because of it.

He'll rise like the Phoenix from the ashes. Koch, Richardson and Davies just watch in awe.

 

[GremioPower]

This football club is rotten. Absolutely disgraceful

We know it. You know it. It has been for years.

I have no idea why a mod woke up one day and decided that the “threadrea” dedicated to the issue was unnecessary. It was merged with another one and disappeared.

It was called “David Koch and the Vanillarization of Port Adelaide”. It was created NINE YEARS AGO in July 19th, 2015.

This is the OP by tribey:

Spoiler: David Koch and the Vanillarization of Port Adelaide

Cast your mind back a few short years to when we were in the doldrums. Onfield, off-field, the works. Shitshow writ large.

While we'd all agree the crux of the problems that led to our eventual nadir of 2011-2 were obvious - club cleft in two, AAMI Stadium, dud timeslots and a lack of national exposure eroding our sponsorship value leading to the financial implosion that saw us slash'n'burn our football-related spend - there were deeper gremlins afoot.

There was a populist opinion outside Alberton that it was simply on the nose. That it was too Port Adelaide. It was arrogant. It was insular. It was no longer coming to heel. Its very identity - the 126 years of SANFL dominance that saw it promoted to the AFL in the first place - was a millstone around its neck. You'll never attract the new supporters you need to be a viable concern going forward! The OneClub merger is a mistake! Referencing Fos Williams' famous Creed is counterproductive! How dare you get the Victorians involved in our Fruchoctopian carry-on! Pull your heads in, jettison the references to your past, turn that scowl into a smile and you'll be so much more likeable.

Former State Treasurer Kevin Foley's tilt at the Presidency was to be built around this doctrine. Power FC would be the manifesto, in much the same way former CEO John James told Ashley Porter that "Port Adelaide" was "geographically constricting" while likening our future branding direction to GE and KFC. And all this off the back of the disastrous reign of coach Matthew Primus - eager to distance himself from the real or imagined hubris associated with the likes of Choco, Chad Cornes and Warren Tredrea - making 'humble' his chief buzzword, while CEO Mark Haysman was sacrificed at the altar of his own recalcitrance to be replaced by former SANFL man, Keith Thomas.

It was a real sliding doors moment for the very raison d'être of the club.

And in stepped David Koch.

Even your most hopeful Port fan had their doubts about the combination of a FIFO President from Sydney TV and high finance, let alone the 1984 Jack Oatey Medallist whose appointment as CEO had John Olsen and Leigh Whicker grinning from ear to ear. But those fears were soon allayed as KT and Kochie doubled-down on affirming our identity with the slick 'We Are Port Adelaide' campaign as the boardroom warfare over stadium deals, AFL licences and reserves teams continued in earnest.

Away from the suit and tie a formidable football department was assembled as Ken Hinkley, Alan Richardson (then Phil Walsh) and Darren Burgess arrived at Alan Scott HQ to implement the seismic shift supporters had been crying out for for years. Bigger bodies. Harder bodies. An honest gameplan. We will never ever give up. An upset Elimination Final win against Collingwood at the MCG in the first year. A demolition of Richmond at the new Adelaide Oval the next. A stunning win over Freo in Perth and then an ace away from a fairytale Grand Final appearance not 26 months since the infamous loss to GWS.

But somewhere amongst this seemingly inevitable march towards the ultimate success something changed.

The night we beat Hawthorn at the Oval a woman - non-member - threw her drink on an opposition player. The men from Glenferrie were also booed off, perhaps by those with long memories of the 'unsociable Hawks' years of dominance over us by fair means and foul. Bizarrely, Keith Thomas chose to respond to the isolated act of a lone moron and wider crowd behaviour that is a staple of football culture by lecturing his members on how to behave at the ground.

Kochie was suddenly everywhere, taking maximum plaudits for the revival while becoming a permanent fixture on our screens after seemingly every September goal. This spilled into 2015 with his ill-advised swagger immediately prior to the first bounce of our opening home fixture with the Swans, marching onto the Oval with the bewildered Fariss brothers and telling supporters to raise their scarves for NTUA before being told to jog on by a flustered goal umpire who had three middle-aged spivs cluttering up his workplace.

More isolated incidents at the Oval followed. Clarko accosted by a random chodeboat outside his hotel. A Western Bulldogs supporter claiming her autistic son was abused/bullied/fleeced in a game of high-stakes baccarat depending on which social media app she was using at the time. And how did Thomas and Koch respond to these unfortunate but isolated incidents? By playing a video on the big screens lecturing members on good behaviour. Again.

And now we have word filtering through from those who attended the Presidents Luncheon that Koch boasted he barracks for the Crows when they're not playing Port. That he hopes for a friendlier rivalry. Hackneyed appeals to the vague concept of South Australian unity. Off the back of his hopes for Port to be everyone's second team. Such platitudes even spread to the players, with Travis Boak's party line of putting the Showdown rivalry on hold culminating in yesterday's predictably soft and underwhelming team performance in contrast to the Crows fierceness from the off.

What. The. F**k.

What happened to We Are Port Adelaide?

At the beginning of the Koch reign he had the air of a prodigal son with something to prove. He'd not only resuscitate the ailing club of his childhood, but show his critics he could run a football club with just as much acumen as his other endeavours.

Now?

He seems every bit the liniment-sniffer drunk on his own bathwater that his doubters feared he would be, having converted us from the rehabilitated, feared and ruthless Port Adelaide that exists to win premierships to the worst version of Crows-Lite existing to be inoffensive, endlessly apologetic and liked.

David Koch has delivered a club whose success is now measured in crowd numbers, receipts and outsiders' smiles. The very club we feared John James and Kevin Foley would railroad us into.

100% vanilla. 0% ticker. Port Adelaide in name only.

It’s going to take a lot of time to undo all that has been done.

 

[El_Scorcho]

Just sack him ffs. 12 more months minimum of misery, and every chance he'll get another contract if he demands one and we're up the ladder .

 

[longdonkey]

2nd of October - International Day of Non-Violence and Sack Hinkley Day

 

[Thunderer]

Surely they can't be this dumb.

 

[snozulu]

Yeah i went 2004 and wanted to see LB... Ended up in the boiler room for hours lol.. They copped alot of shit for the girl dying If remember correctly... But I did get to see them a few years later which was awesome.

I really loved Ramstein. What a show they put on.

 

[Waspy79]

This football club is rotten. Absolutely disgraceful

Yes. It’s been hijacked by the antithesis of Port Adelaide.

 

[Willsy10]

Has Hinkley ever fronted any media or fans after his post match presser in any of our embarrassing finals exits?

He goes into hiding every year it seems.

And as fans we are just meant to move on from getting flogged in finals again.

I’m still bloody pissed off about our finals performances, and probably more so the Sydney game, all we had to do was bring the pressure we brought against hawthorn and the swans would’ve rolled over like they did on gf day but we couldn’t be bothered because it was mission accomplished just winning 1 final.

Have we even got an email from Richo? Have any of these weak pricks explained our finals debacle?



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[Watto71]

Well if we have to deal with him for another season I'm going to have alot of free time next season.
I just can't anymore

 

[Rash]

This imo is a big smokescreen for something else

what is that?

 

[JimmyBC]

Has Hinkley ever fronted any media or fans after his post match presser in any of our embarrassing finals exits?

He goes into hiding every year it seems.

And as fans we are just meant to move on from getting flogged in finals again.

I’m still bloody pissed off about our finals performances, and probably more so the Sydney game, all we had to do was bring the pressure we brought against hawthorn and the swans would’ve rolled over like they did on gf day but we couldn’t be bothered because it was mission accomplished just winning 1 final.

Have we even got an email from Richo? Have any of these weak pricks explained our finals debacle?



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They like to let us simmer down before they wheel him out to Whateley for a soft touch season debrief, I'm not sure he does the 5AA season wrap anymore after Tredrea got up his skirt.

 

[KrispyKremeMullanikka]

what is that?

I need to preface by saying this is just my opinion, and I could be completely wrong, but it feels to me that this is just a smokescreen to a decision one way or the other. I think we’ll know whether Ken is staying or not tomorrow. The timing of when the media release things is key.

It feels like bait from the club given to the media to distract supporters. The club knows how much we love Dewie and that his return to us means a lot to the fan base and shows a sign of trying to improve us on the field.

The club also knows that we are hell bent on wanting Hinkley out and changing back to our ways through our creed.

 

[Lefti93]

They deserve nothing good.

 

[Duck Farmer]

Just sack him ffs. 12 more months minimum of misery, and every chance he'll get another contract if he demands one and we're up the ladder .

He's only 60% of the way there to being a 20 year coach. No way Koch sees the current situation as mission accomplished.

 

[theouthouse]

You just can't employ a coach who is so easily riled up over a social media comment.

His reaction to it post Hawthorn game really is a sackable offense, disgraced the entire football club on the national stage.

Embarrased everyone involved. Going right down from the top, that's you Kochie, Kennys jut made a fool of you for extening his contract, all the board members, players, other coaches and managers, members and supporters right down to the bootstudder......yet here we are.

Sack Hinkley.

 

[Willsy10]

You just can't employ a coach who is so easily riled up over a social media comment.

His reaction to it post Hawthorn game really is a sackable offense, disgraced the entire football club on the national stage.

Embarrased everyone involved. Going right down from the top, that's you Kochie, Kennys jut made a fool of you for extening his contract, all the board members, players, other coaches and managers, members and supporters right down to the bootstudder......yet here we are.

Sack Hinkley.

He embarrassed the fan base by getting absolutely flogged in 2/3 finals. Not by pretending to be an aeroplane.


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[dirty2]

Ken is embarrassing everytime he talks... So Is bloody Koch...

Can we actually have someone who can actually complete a sentence talk for our club?

 

[KrispyKremeMullanikka]

I would like to know if there any board meetings scheduled for tonight or tomorrow? Surely? Chewy316

 

[Addy23]

Well if we have to deal with him for another season I'm going to have alot of free time next season.
I just can't anymore

I am just gonna start following the u18s comp with even more interest than what I do. Watch those live rather than replay and forget about us till Ken leaves

 

[JimmyBC]

Checklist for a cooked coach:

1. Celebrates H&A Wins like he's won Powerball
2. Wild emotional swings (with tears) once again during the H&A against crap opponents
3. Has the best CHF of the club's modern era roaming the halls and won't entertain the guy speaking to his disfunctional forwards.. because he's a baby that doesn't like criticism
4. Does the airplane and taunts opposition players after a bare requirement home finals win (thrashed the week before which poo'ed the season)
5. Needs an extended break.. more like a fukcin' permanent one

 

[philreich]

This guy gets itView attachment 2128452

Oh but according to Footy Classified, he should be able to coach for another 5 years somewhere else. It makes sense, given the myriad of job offers he's received so far .