Certified Legendary Thread Sack Hinkley 13 - Another Crack At This (Stepping down end of 2025)

[Us against the rest]

If its about money with Ken, which let's face it, it is. Then the board needs to have some balls about them. Demote him, sorry ken, we don't need you to be the head coach, but we do need you down in the boots room to clean the boys boots, fine we'll pay you your 900k this year, but that's what you'll be doing.

Then when he is embarrassed that his "ego" (which is self inflated because he's never achieved anything) he can walk, and Port can tear up the contract saying he is not performing his end of the contract. if he runs some argument in the Fair Work Omission for being demoted, well results speak for themselves, no Commissioner is going to side with that.

And if he has a go in Court for breach on contract, then surely the scope of his work is to provide a high quality head coaching role, which surely can't be too hard to argue - having said that we did go into the Houston tribunal last year saying yes sorry were guilty, please don't give us 5 weeks.

Like you said a board with no balls.

 

[Nelso]

Love his deflection about losing 3 games by over 13 goals in the last dozen games.

No accountability whatsoever.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Lol i bet he is asking for a cherry on top to vacate the role, not just his salary paid out. The bean counters would be hand wringing.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

That was the one where it was trumpeted left and right as a crèche full of Goldilockses going over and beating the big bad wolf in its own lair against all odds — but overall, our team was actually slightly older and more experienced on the day (and played like it).

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The entire Hinkley Era is an empire of meagre achievements bathed in bullsh¡t like these.

It was a pretty good win because we had 4 debutants and 2 new players.

But it also represented the issues we had that we have cleaned out too many 24-29 year olds.

There were 7 players under 22, 4 who were 22 or 23 and 4 who were 30+ and had 7 in the 24-29 age bracket

Dees had 4 players under 22, 10 who were 22 or 23 and 1 who was 30+ and had 7 in the 24-29 age bracket.
8 of their U/24 players would be premiership players 2.9 seasons later and Viney was 24.

We have traded out 4 of our U/24 players from that game Amon, Bonner, Duursma and Houston.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Love his deflection about losing 3 games by over 13 goals in the last dozen games.

No accountability whatsoever.

would have been 4 if the swans had of kicked straight in the second half of the prelim final and didn't put the queue in the rack in the last quarter and save themselves for the GF.

 

[Sheeds]

Lol i bet he is asking for a cherry on top to vacate the role, not just his salary paid out. The bean counters would be hand wringing.

Probably wants some type of bonus payment for his son as well.

 

[bomberclifford]

Hinkley love montage

 

[Lockhart Road]

Did anybody mention Tasmania?

He and Donna can hide down there, with all the other extinct types with two heads.

 

[Spadge]

I have never wanted Port to lose a game of football more than i do this weekend against Richmond.

This is a team that was tipped for the spoon

If we lost this weekend and Hinkley isnt marched then we all might as well give up football forever as our club is beyond repair

CARN THE TIGES!!

 

[Macca_1870]

I have never wanted Port to lose a game of football more than i do this weekend against Richmond.

This is a team that was tipped for the spoon

If we lost this weekend and Hinkley isnt marched then we all might as well give up football forever as our club is beyond repair

CARN THE TIGES!!

The list of couldabeen sackings is almost as long as the list of failures themselves.

Ken will go on his terms, when he is guaranteed his salary in full.

That's it.

 

[Sheeds]

When Ken starts getting asked any hint of a tough question or has any heat on him it is when he normally responds by saying "I've been in the game a long time" Without actually addressing any issues and the journos not knowing how to respond eventually just move on without pressing further.

 

[Bump Bailey]

What a total loser

 

[Waspy79]

They're so disconnected from us.

We finished 2nd, sure that is a good result, but the coaching staff needs to be able to cut through the fluff and identify that part of our results are based on fluking our way there, and that clearly our 2nd position didn't actually fairly reflect our ability.

We can all see it from the outside. We all know our failings, we see the themes repeating so consistently across seasons. The finals results were a bit extreme, but they were again the EXACT same types we'd seen in the past. They clearly highlight where we're really at. Instead of calling them out, making major change on the back of several years of finals failure, they're trying to sell this bull crap message that if we keep hammering the square peg into the round hole we'll eventually get lucky.

We're a strong club, lol.

We're making up the numbers and of absolutely no threat to anyone in September.

We'll beat Richmond by 10 goals this week and it'll mean absolutely zero, yet the club and coaching staff will hang their hats on it like they did beating StKilda in the preseason.

I'd suggest second did roughly reflect the appropriate position (the minor round is long, and Port did defeat Geelong, Sydney, Hawthorn, Footscray), what the problem is, and has always been under Hinkley, is the ability of players to perform in high pressure finals and games with high expectations to deliver, such as Showdowns, the 04 reunion, the Ebert game.

In the minor round Port beats the same teams it melts against in finals. This is because there is a finals are scary mentality deeply ingrained in the players psyche, and rather than address this, the club continues to focus on ensuring the players are good people instead of good hard ruthless footballers both physically and mentally.

Sack Hinkley.

 

[tribey]

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What a total loser

gesticulates flamboyantly

 

[manureid]

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What a total loser

Judge me at the end of the season TM

 

[Sheeds]

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What a total loser

No Grand Final appearance in 12 years. I'd call that a trend of not making Grand Finals Kenny.

 

[Chewy316]

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What a total loser

Geez he's really clutching at straws here. Pressure's getting to him and they've only played one game

 

[johnnysix]

Michael Voss sacked before Ken...

 

[Byrons Firen]

The timing of the 2023 extension with Koch declaring "we look at the data", which he clearly didn't understand, was an appalling decision but the finals exit, although highly likely to any Port supporter, wasn't guaranteed.

For me the 2017 extension was the worst. Hinkley had made it public earlier in the year that being an AFL senior coach was no longer important to him and then in September requested to be released from his contract to take the Gold Coast job. A job which not only would pay more but bring less scrutiny which was very desirable for an AFL coach simply in it for the money. If the request to be released from his contract didn't tell Koch that Hinkley definitely wasn't committed to Port Adelaide I don't know what could. Instead of releasing Hinkley and telling him not to let the door hit him on the arse on the way out Koch gave Hinkley a contract extension and a pay rise. This was in the wake of the 2017 Elimination Final debacle.

and a job, unadvertised, for his son Jordan as video analyst. A precursor for his daughter's paid employment PAFC

Go f'ck yourself Sprinkles

 

[Steve Dore]

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What a total loser

"In the last five years, we’ve won nearly the equal most number of games in the AFL. Is that a trend as well?”

How many of those were in finals when it really mattered you loser?

Your inability to win finals has certainly been a trend since 2014.

‘Is that what you’re asking?’ Tense Hinkley exchange as presser turns awkward over glaring question

‘Is that what you’re asking?’ Tense Hinkley exchange as presser turns awkward over glaring question

www.foxsports.com.au

 

[Waspy79]

Kenneth 'Nearly' Hinkley

 

[Us against the rest]

The list of couldabeen sackings is almost as long as the list of failures themselves.

Ken will go on his terms, when he is guaranteed his salary in full.

That's it.

**** Ken.

 

[chachi11]

He makes me sick, I hate the campaigner.

 

[Waspy79]

Probably wants some type of bonus payment for his son as well.

I wonder how Jordan's employment contract is structured. Doubt it is tied to Donuts McNearly, club might have to hope he resigns or can be made redundant. Can imagine Ken would encourage Jordan to make it an unsavoury exit.

 

[PowerBaz]

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What a total loser

In the last 5 years we still haven't made GF..........

Geez he's really clutching at straws here. Pressure's getting to him and they've only played one game

I wonder of the other teams who won those equal number games have made a GF let alone win one...