Certified Legendary Thread Sack Hinkley 13 - Another Crack At This

[Sleezy]

I'll chuck my old Bureau of Statistics hat on. From 2000 to 2020 the population went up about 7 million from 18 million to about 25 million.

In that same time Australian Public Service (Commonwealth Employees) went from about 110,000 to about 115,000.

Ask anyone on the street and they say Public Service should be slashed but it has, by the government sitting on their hands.

I don't argue this stuff anymore - I prefer to tell people to get ****ed its much more entertaining.

And who picked up the slack? Our buddies at PWC, E&Y, etc.

Leeches.

 

[Willsy10]

Watching Bris v Port Rnd 17, 2003. What a cracking game. Wonderful skills, marking, running, kicking and link play. Hinkley is such a sh*t coach with a sh*t game plan.

Still couldn’t get past the prelim that year.


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[PAFC66]

Coach accepts accountability and responsibility.

We can only dream of this:

I heard that this morning and thought **** me , Ken has never ever accepted responsibility

 

[longdonkey]

And who picked up the slack? Our buddies at PWC, E&Y, etc.

Leeches.

Pretty much....I got asked to interview for PWC.

I ended up saying No because the abuse and bastardisation would be too much. But they seem to be pretty good at giving it back.

Also they seem even too corrupt for me.

 

[JimmyBC]

I heard that this morning and thought **** me , Ken has never ever accepted responsibility

Apart from the very early days of his tenure I'm struggling to think of anything he's said that I've even remotely wanted to hear from a head coach.

 

[philreich]

Richo said we should be excited. You should just get behind the boys and back in our inspirational hard as nails captain in Connor Rozee!

A true leader of men and a scholar of Jordan Peterson.

LOL I stopped getting excited about this team years ago. If a person gets too emotionally invested in Port under Hinkley, he/she will inevitably have his/her heart ripped out.

 

[Steve Dore]

LOL I stopped getting excited about this team years ago. If a person gets too emotionally invested in Port under Hinkley, he/she/they will inevitably have his/her/their heart ripped out.

FTFY

 

[wgt]

I'll chuck my old Bureau of Statistics hat on. From 2000 to 2020 the population went up about 7 million from 18 million to about 25 million.

In that same time Australian Public Service (Commonwealth Employees) went from about 110,000 to about 115,000.

Ask anyone on the street and they say Public Service should be slashed but it has, by the government sitting on their hands.

I don't argue this stuff anymore - I prefer to tell people to get ****ed its much more entertaining.

yeh, but what about the public service that isnt directly employed by the government? The past 20 years there has been a huge increase is governments both state and federal getting private companies to do their jobs and dirty work. Its implemented by the private company but paid for by tax dollars. To say the public service hasnt increased much isnt really true when a huge portion is hidden by private employment now days. Mainly because governments dont want to be the ones responsible for employing people if they dont have too and its much easier for them to palm off responsibility to a private company. They effectively are part of the public service because if the government money was removed then their employment doesnt exist.

 

[longdonkey]

yeh, but what about the public service that isnt directly employed by the government? The past 20 years there has been a huge increase is governments both state and federal getting private companies to do their jobs and dirty work. Its implemented by the private company but paid for by tax dollars. To say the public service hasnt increased much isnt really true when a huge portion is hidden by private employment now days. Mainly because governments dont want to be the ones responsible for employing people if they dont have too and its much easier for them to palm off responsibility to a private company. They effectively are part of the public service because if the government money was removed then their employment doesnt exist.

What you say here is somewhat true. At the end of the day its employees are performing work for a "for profit" company.

What money is creamed off by corruption by this process is an indictment on government as a whole not the public service per se.

This is a consequence of miserly accountants running these processes that inevitably decreases productivity for the country as a whole to show lower costs on a balance sheet.

 

[wgt]

What you say here is somewhat true. At the end of the day its employees are performing work for a "for profit" company.

What money is creamed off by corruption by this process is an indictment on government as a whole not the public service per se.

This is a consequence of miserly accountants running these processes that inevitably decreases productivity for the country as a whole to show lower costs on a balance sheet.

true, dodgy business dealings by governments and councils to unload their responsibility to the employer by incorporating businesses that are very willing to get involved in a system that is joined to a tax payer funded entity is rife. It allows them deniability and the freedom of not having those employers under the umbrella of a government agency. It puts layers of bureaucracy between the person and the government that takes all sorts or legal wrangling before anyone in government has to be accountable at all, they can hide behind a thousand things and they love it.

 

[philreich]

So we now have around 123 days until round 1 - who's excited?

 

[Steve Dore]

So we now have around 123 days until round 1 - who's excited?

After 2023's Hinkley extension and a straight sets finals exit I didn't think I could be less excited about the following season.

I was wrong

 

[simba_]

can we not compete next season and sort the club out?

 

[philreich]

After 2023's Hinkley extension and a straight sets finals exit I didn't think I could be less excited about the following season.

I was wrong

Yeah same. If we win a prelim, I might feel differently, but the odds of that happening would be similar to the odds of Donald Trump becoming the next pope.

 

[Bump Bailey]

So we now have around 123 days until round 1 - who's excited?

I'm excited for the draw to come out so I can try and guess the games where Hinkley will:

(1) Say or do something completely farking stupid
(2) Get booed
(3) Cry

All three happening on the same day would be the ideal scenario

 

[philreich]

I'm excited for the draw to come out so I can try and guess the games where Hinkley will:

(1) Say or do something completely farking stupid
(2) Get booed
(3) Cry

All three happening on the same day would be the ideal scenario

Number 2 has to happen every week - if he's feeling uncomfortable in his job, maybe he'll finally see sense and quit.

 

[Nelso]

Best game of the modern era imo.

Nah.

That would be Essendon v North in 2001 when Essendon came back from 69 points to win.

 

[PowerLil]

I'm excited for the draw to come out so I can try and guess the games where Hinkley will:

(1) Say or do something completely farking stupid
(2) Get booed
(3) Cry

All three happening on the same day would be the ideal scenario

You got the order right too.

 

[Chewy316]

Nah.

That would be Essendon v North in 2001 when Essendon came back from 69 points to win.

I know this sounds ridiculous, but when I saw the score update (I was at Footy Park watching the crows vs Sydney game that arvo) on the screen, I still expected Essendon to come back and win.

In terms of skill, the Port vs Brisbane 2003 game is as good as it gets imo.

 

[Willsy10]

2002 round 22 was pretty good too. Just a shame about the following week in the QF against Collingwood makes you look back on that round 22 game a little angry.

 

[tribey]

Nah.

That would be Essendon v North in 2001 when Essendon came back from 69 points to win.

Essendon vs North a couple of years earlier (158-132 Essendon) was even better than that one imo — Carey with one of the rolled gold GOAT performances, including the left foot checkside falling backwards over the boundary.

And Koutoufides going beast mode in the Prelim cost us what would’ve been an all-time humdinger of a rematch.

 

[Contested Marx]

Meanwhile
2025 gonna be like:

 

[Cheesey Mac]

Yeah same. If we win a prelim, I might feel differently, but the odds of that happening would be similar to the odds of Donald Trump becoming the next pope.

He just has to win the Electoral College of Cardinals

 

[Us against the rest]

Just sack the loser.

 

[PortPortPort]

Life has come at me this past week, so I say Sack Hinkley to bring a little cheer for everyone here.