Certified Legendary Thread Sack Hinkley 13 - Another Crack At This

[Peninsula Boy]

It's pretty much bat$hit crazy to want to have Darren Cahill as a football coach down at the club.

Back on the board, no worries, but as a coach. Crazy pills.

 

[PowerLil]

It's pretty much bat$hit crazy to want to have Darren Cahill as a football coach down at the club.

Back on the board, no worries, but as a coach. Crazy pills.

Head coach, no. Director of Coaching, hell yeah.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Lol Zverev is the Keninkly of Tennis.

 

[Scodges]

Apparently Cahill won’t be back for next years AO, unless Sinner convinces him otherwise.


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[Willsy10]

Yeah I’d definitely be on board with Cahill getting involved with the club in a coaching capacity but not as a senior or line coach.

But a director of coaching or development coach would be good.

At the very least he’d be a very good mentor for Carr. And Carr would be silly not to have him by his side if he was available and keen to help.


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[TeeKray]

It's pretty much bat$hit crazy to want to have Darren Cahill as a football coach down at the club.

Back on the board, no worries, but as a coach. Crazy pills.

You realise we've had Ken Hinkley as our senior coach for 13 years right? Do you honestly think that dumbass has some special insight into the game that Darren Cahill doesn't because he played a few games for Geelong 30 years ago? Coaching is an art and it's absolutely transferable across sports, even if it's not the done thing in professional sports.

 

[philreich]

Also who knows whether we'll be better or worse.

Houston is a massive loss, but Luko and Pep could be massive gains. We don't know whether our other players will go forward or backward but there certainly is a lot of potential for development for many of them.

What I do know is none of it matters. We could be the best list in the AFL by a country mile, finish the H&A season 16 points clear in first, and still go out embarrassingly in finals. You simply can't win the flag without at least an above average coaching box - we have close to league worst.

A guy I know is a mad Port fan, but with Hinkley at the helm, he's so confident of another finals fade out, that he's going to the UK in September.

 

[Peninsula Boy]

You realise we've had Ken Hinkley as our senior coach for 13 years right? Do you honestly think that dumbass has some special insight into the game that Darren Cahill doesn't because he played a few games for Geelong 30 years ago? Coaching is an art and it's absolutely transferable across sports, even if it's not the done thing in professional sports.

No, I had no idea that Ken Hinkley was our coach.

Ken should have been sacked years ago.
I would like the person to take his place to be a football coach.

People mooting Darren Cahill as a coach is just a bit too much

Coaching is so transferable that it rarely if ever happens successfully.
I'm sure it is a short list.

 

[rogerjames]

The blokes gonna hang about this year like a particularly sulfury fart, having another "crack" whilst another generation of players get dragged into his inner circle daddy cult.

My only cope is that C4 is on the money and this is genuinely his last year.

What did we do as a club to deserve this?




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This is on the decision makers at the club, the players (both current & past) & the supporters for tolerating it. Everyone has played a role to some degree.

 

[rogerjames]

Lol Zverev is the Keninkly of Tennis.

He at least makes the big final

 

[VineValerian]

Not just that. Given his reputation and track record as a tennis coach Killer would be getting well paid. Darren stepped down from his role on the PAFC Board because it got in the way of his tennis commitments and I think sitting alongside Hinkley for 6 months when three of the Grand Slams are being played might be to much of a conflict and a decision Killer might not be prepared to make.

In 2024 Jannik Sinner won 19,735,703 USD in prize money. I have no idea what a tennis coach earns but if Sinner paid Killer just 1 per cent of his prize pool it is almost 200k USD. I am not sure that Darren would want to give that sort of money up.

Tennis coaches earn between 5% and 15% of players earnings.
Bare minimum Killer is on 5% but given his CV and how in demand he'd be, probs closer to 7% - 8%.
That's a cool $1.5mill plus per annum.

Reckon skills coach/mentor to De Minaur and a few other Aussies when they come home for a few weeks, plus Director of an Oz tennis academy for promising juniors.

Fill in spare time as PAFC Chairman. Or as Football Co-ordinator.

 

[tribey]

Round 2, 2014 - Ken almost bit Shaun Hart’s arm off when he tapped him to try & get his attention in the box the first AO Showdown.

I was absolutely still in the Hinkley Honeymoon phase so not going to pretend like I had some amazing foresight on the matter at the time, but It was absolutely the first sign that the guy might not handle pressure well.

I didn’t mind it in the moment, but that’s probably because Hart was a staunch weirdo and Ken seemed to have actual ambition and a pulse.

But with the benefit of over a decade’s worth of his foibles, it just adds to the weirdness.

It’s like how he tore strips off Pete Ladhams at quarter time of the Ben Brown Bowl — hang on Ken, you chose to leave Scott Lycett in the reserves and pit this rookie against Todd Goldstein, buddy. What did you think would happen?

And why the rage anyway? Don’t you usually chuckle, grin and laugh amidst a trademark Port Adelaide bedsh¡t?!

Goodness me.

 

[Anyonebutken]

In elite sport the most important thing to get right before you compete especially in finals is having the right mindset and being mentally stronger than your opponent. This is one of Cahills strengths as a coach and mentor. Having him in some capacity helping the coaches and players would be good. Currently a weakness of ours.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Cahill has been coach of two dopers.

 

[JimmyBC]

I could see it with someone like a Ric Charlesworth but a tennis coach is individual focussed & lets face it he's only taking on the top echelon with deep pockets & doesn't even communicate with them in-game.

I'd say a tennis coach is probably the flimsiest definition of a coach there is, players have won majors without a coach.

 

[TeeKray]

I could see it with someone like a Ric Charlesworth but a tennis coach is individual focussed & lets face it he's only taking on the top echelon with deep pockets & doesn't even communicate with them in-game.

I'd say a tennis coach is probably the flimsiest definition of a coach there is, players have won majors without a coach.

You can point out the differences all you like but it's not a coincidence that the son of John Cahill became a successful tennis coach and is on record as saying the way his father coached at Port underpins his coaching. I'll leave it at that.

 

[JimmyBC]

You can point out the differences all you like but it's not a coincidence that the son of John Cahill became a successful tennis coach and is on record as saying the way his father coached at Port underpins his coaching. I'll leave it at that.

Yea I think you should because as much as I love Jack you are talking about the bow and arrow days.

 

[Peninsula Boy]

You can point out the differences all you like but it's not a coincidence that the son of John Cahill became a successful tennis coach and is on record as saying the way his father coached at Port underpins his coaching. I'll leave it at that.

Isn't the Jed trolling taking you where you need to go anymore.

 

[JimmyBC]

The radio rumour this morning was Cahill may replace Koch as Chairman

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Cahill has been coach of two dopers.

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Tennis players don't dope! Just ask retired tennis players.

 

[Launchpad McQuack]

Cahill has been coach of two dopers.

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1. Appoint Cahill
2. Geelong-like dynasty
3. ??? (i.e. AFL ignores the how)
4. Profits and pork barrelling

 

[Kenny_Powers]

The radio rumour this morning was Cahill may replace Koch as Chairman

I'd absolutely snap that up if true, would turn the whole club around


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[PowerBaz]

The radio rumour this morning was Cahill may replace Koch as Chairman

From a caller or radio host?

 

[Steve Dore]

It surely is bizaro times when people don't want Carr to replace Hinkley but are happy for Darren Cahill to.

Admittedly an inanimate carbon rod could coach us to as many flags as Daddy Donuts.

 

[Steve Dore]

From a caller or radio host?

Are you suggesting one has more credibility than the other?