Certified Legendary Thread Sack Hinkley 13 - Another Crack At This

[Us against the rest]

I still think we can make finals, but I don't think it's a list capable of winning a premiership anymore.

Our backline just got worse, we've got enough of a sample size to show that our mids go missing in finals, and we still don't have a star small forward recruit. Joe Richards ain't moving the needle up there.

I take back everything I said about Sam Gray.

 

[Us against the rest]

I still think we can make finals, but I don't think it's a list capable of winning a premiership anymore.

Our backline just got worse, we've got enough of a sample size to show that our mids go missing in finals, and we still don't have a star small forward recruit. Joe Richards ain't moving the needle up there.

They were talking on Trade Radio the other day and they were saying Woodcock deserves another go at AFL, he's supposedly doing very well were ever he's playing atm. They made mention that he was only 19 when he was at Port and now he's a man.

 

[Palpatine_Power]

They were talking on Trade Radio the other day and they were saying Woodcock deserves another go at AFL, he's supposedly doing very well were ever he's playing atm. They made mention that he was only 19 when he was at Port and now he's a man.

Just won the BNF for Southport in the VFL. We were too quick to walk him.

 

[dirty2]

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He should be struck from the port Adelaide fc Records.

 

[RossFC]

They were talking on Trade Radio the other day and they were saying Woodcock deserves another go at AFL, he's supposedly doing very well were ever he's playing atm. They made mention that he was only 19 when he was at Port and now he's a man.

Yeah heard great things about him. When he was playing in the SANFL for us though he kept crapping himself in important moments. But he would have been 20-21 at the time.

 

[longdonkey]

Looking forward to the happy clapper melts next year when Collingwood replace us in the 8. Hinkley is sacked, and Gold Coast have our single figure draft pick. Admin Dave will cry out "It isn't Kenny, It's the list".

 

[Capital Power]

And with Lukosius replacing Dixon, he doesn't even need to change the gameplan. Genius.

 

[johnnysix]

Ken is at Port until the board becomes elected by the "club members".
Deal with it.

Kane wouldn't know shit from clay.

The people that elect this club's board have the responsibility for the whole AFL.
The best way to manage that is a strong Collingwood.
Hence the last week.
Just wait until some of Collingwood's older players leave and their cap space opens up to swoop on our free agents.

Ken is a symptom, not the disease.
The list is never going to be good enough.

We are now waiting for Godot while the AFL squeeze what they can out of Port's old school goodwill, while teal-washing the next generations.

We do we need some big "VFL is out to get us" conspiracy when our own ineptitude explains everything? The reason we "had to" make the deal is we desperately wanted back into this draft and we had to do that because we sold the farm last year to bring in missing pieces. We are constantly bringing in players to feed into the Ken-Hinkley-Least-Efficient-Gameplan-Ever We don't need a conspiracy to explain what is blatantly obvious.

 

[tribey]

Yeah heard great things about him. When he was playing in the SANFL for us though he kept crapping himself in important moments. But he would have been 20-21 at the time.

Wasn’t he pigeonholed as a small forward during his time with us?

Is a fully-fledged ball magnet now.

Apparently had 19 tackles in the VFL Grand Final lol.

 

[RossFC]

Wasn’t he pigeonholed as a small forward during his time with us?

Is a fully-fledged ball magnet now.

Apparently had 19 tackles in the VFL Grand Final lol.

Yeah at AFL level, but at SANFL level was a mix between forward and mid. 70 disposals in his last 2 maggies games, but the problem is he'd never get those mid minutes at AFL level because he's too small and we've got too much depth there.

 

[gbear]

Trade period is now over, we screwed that up, so surely Hinkley is sacked soon enough?

A girl can dream.

 

[tribey]

Yeah at AFL level, but at SANFL level was a mix between forward and mid. 70 disposals in his last 2 maggies games, but the problem is he'd never get those mid minutes at AFL level because he's too small and we've got too much depth there.

Gee whiz.

 

[PAFC66]

Gimme another crack at thissss

We won't see or hear from the campaigner til January/ February

 

[Doctor Feel]

Trade period is now over, we screwed that up, so surely Hinkley is sacked soon enough?

A girl can dream.

We got everyone we wanted and moved on everyone we wanted because of Hinkley Magic.

 

[tribey]

In the BK (before Kenny) area I would have backed the club culture and environment to keep a player like Houston given the belief and success that Port instilled in people. There are multiple examples where people drafted and traded in etc become a Port man for life.

But it is the cult of Kenny now. One man bigger than the club. You play for him now not the supporters or the club.

Won't be the last player we lose and very, very few will now be "Port men" going forward.

David your time will not be looked at or judged fondly.

You’d think we were Fremantle, the way certain individuals have been put on pedestals over the AFL journey, and a century-plus of tradition, success and glory has been increasingly brushed aside or relegated to irrelevance.

Our reputation now is dreadful. Flaky, p¡ssweak and brittle. All talk, no action. On and now off-field.

Literally nobody gives the faintest sh¡t that we haven’t won less than 10 games in 13 years. Or that we’re always there or thereabouts.

But the likes of Koch, Davies, Rucci and Wines stick their chests out like it won’t be forgotten by everyone within 10 minutes of Hinkley finally leaving.

It’s an extraordinary delusion.

 

[dirty2]

We just need to work longerer for harderer...

*And I love hobbitsis.

 

[El_Scorcho]

You’d think we were Fremantle, the way certain individuals have been put on pedestals over the AFL journey, and a century-plus of tradition, success and glory has been increasingly brushed aside or relegated to irrelevance.

Our reputation now is dreadful. Flaky, p¡ssweak and brittle. All talk, no action. On and now off-field.

Literally nobody gives the faintest sh¡t that we haven’t won less than 10 games in 13 years. Or that we’re always there or thereabouts.

But the likes of Koch, Davies, Rucci and Wines stick their chests out like it won’t be forgotten by everyone within 10 minutes of Hinkley finally leaving.

It’s an extraordinary delusion.

Yep, they justify getting annihilated at the trade table by saying that we're a club that never wants to bottom out, as if we're Sydney or Geelong who between them have appeared in 12 of the last 20 grand finals. We're too good to bottom out like Richmond, West Coast, Brisbane or Hawthorn did on the way to flags apparently.

I hate "stability". I ****ing hate it. Gimme a debt demolition every other year and a club with a pulse thanks. Gimme 14000 of us at AAMI stadium watching Butch kick the greatest 6 goals in the history of the game. Gimme a guernsey with MyATM on the front and Soaring Securities on the back. "Look where we were when Koch and Hinkley took over" yeah, a place where footy was my favourite part of the week.

 

[philreich]

Yep, they justify getting annihilated at the trade table by saying that we're a club that never wants to bottom out, as if we're Sydney or Geelong who between them have appeared in 12 of the last 20 grand finals. We're too good to bottom out like Richmond, West Coast, Brisbane or Hawthorn did on the way to flags apparently.

I hate "stability". I ****ing hate it. Gimme a debt demolition every other year and a club with a pulse thanks. Gimme 14000 of us at AAMI stadium watching Butch kick the greatest 6 goals in the history of the game. Gimme a guernsey with MyATM on the front and Soaring Securities on the back. "Look where we were when Koch and Hinkley took over" yeah, a place where footy was my favourite part of the week.

Yep we as a club are now satisfied with "there, or thereabouts". Getting smashed by 14 goals in a home qualifying final clearly doesn't phase them, and neither does the fact that we never play in a grand final. It's sickening, and definitely something I can't justify spending hundreds of membership dollars on.

 

[ibd77]

Still no sacking, WTF?!

 

[Capital Power]

Still no sacking, WTF?!

We have ready made excuses for failure next year, so our actual performance is now irrelevant. We'll persist with the game plan, as we've replaced Dixon (again by robbing from our future).

No need to pay out the coach, we can just mark time. Then if we overachieve next year and make finals it'll be the inevitable extension.

I do wonder what our board actually thinks/does. Presumably this is all going to plan?

 

[EskimoPAFC]

How long til the first "What does Ken Hinkley need to do to get an extension" article? I reckon November 20.

 

[Anyonebutken]

Ive said before the club/board is split on ken. Got some info last night suggesting its now 60/40 against Ken and gettting worse for him, now he has lost the support of more people including not suprising list management going by cripps coments.
He will survive and coach 2025 but that will be it for him. Koch is weak as water not havning the balls to turf him out now
they will have to learn the hard way cause if the club is like this its only a matter of time it effecting the playing group would not suprise if we are sitting 2 and 5 or similar early in the season because of it and ken leaves half way thru next season or slightly before.

 

[chiwigi]

Ive said before the club/board is split on ken. Got some info last night suggesting its now 60/40 against Ken and gettting worse for him, now he has lost the support of more people including not suprising list management going by cripps coments.
He will survive and coach 2025 but that will be it for him. Koch is weak as water not havning the balls to turf him out now
they will have to learn the hard way cause if the club is like this its only a matter of time it effecting the playing group would not suprise if we are sitting 2 and 5 or similar early in the season because of it and ken leaves half way thru next season or slightly before.

Which makes trading next years first one of the dumbest moves we've made.

 

[dirty2]

Clubs weak as piss. Sack everyone.

 

[Duck Farmer]

We're too good to bottom out like Richmond, West Coast, Brisbane or Hawthorn did on the way to flags apparently.

Richmond, after 3 premierships, are doing it again with 7 first round picks to set them up to contend for the flag again in a few years.

Meanwhile at Alberton ...