Opinion Sack Hinkley 4 - Show Him The Door

[finbarr]

David Koch sees himself as some sort of a deity. The whole "true believers" thing is the dead givaway of this.

 

[Enviable Tradition]

There's only one thing I think we can do when Koch posts anything on social media flood the comments as disgruntled port supporters he will get the idea quickly enough the fans have had a gutful.

I just signed up on Twitter for the first time in years.

#sackken

 

[Harlott]

Posted this in the autopsy thread, but worth reiterating here:

So I've done the numbers on this. Only using H/A games and using ladder positions at the end of each H/A season, here is the ladder of win % against top 4 teams since the start of 2017 (teams have played 24 +/- 3 games against top 4 sides in this time)

1	GWS	31.4
2	Geelong	31.3
3	Richmond	30.0
4	Sydney	29.4
5	WCE	27.6
6	Crows	25.0
7	Hawks	22.6
8	Lions	22.2
9	Melbourne	20.7
10	WBD	20.6
11	Pies	17.9
12	NM	17.9
13	Saints	16.7
14	Freo	13.8
15	Port	12.0
16	Carlton	11.1
17	Essendon	10.7
18	GCS	4.3

For Port, that's 3 wins from 22 matchups.

Makes Ben Dixon not look like such a dumb a*** with his “false fourth”

 

[BornPort]

I guess we can hold him to that, I mean he's just sunk himself as anything other than a GF birth next year is trending downwards.

The main issue is that we can't hold them to anything. We have no power.

 

[Enviable Tradition]

I guess we can hold him to that, I mean he's just sunk himself as anything other than a GF birth next year is trending downwards.

What makes you say that?

Kochie loves in a post truth world.

We went backwards in every way his year and he just said we are "trending upwards".

Next year we will scrape into the 8 and he will say the same.

#sackken

 

[Chewy316]

If there ever was a spokesperson for ignorance and bullshit, David would be the face of it.

If you're going to spew that shit up on the radio after what transpired on Saturday night, don't bother going on.

 

[PowerBaz]

I gather when Ken goes so will Kochie. They are linked.

 

[Enviable Tradition]

I gather when Ken goes so will Kochie. They are linked.

Ken couldn't handle having a boss with expectations.

#sackken

 

[Arsene Wenger]

I gather when Ken goes so will Kochie. They are linked.

This is absolutely it.

 

[JUSTWORK]

Can we even do that not being a member owned club?

Based on a very quick reading of our club constitution, looks like we can’t.

 

[70sDinosaur]

Makes Ben Dixon not look like such a dumb a*** with his “false fourth”

Not a false fourth but maybe a false second.

And a false third from Geelong as well.

 

[PAFC66]

Remember when kochie came out Friday gloating that the #sackken comments were drying up fast on his Twitter......

 

[Macca19]

I can see what hes saying but, nah, the time hs passed i think

 

[PAFC66]

I am shocked at so many people not already being done. I would never tell people to chuck in memberships, likewise would never be critical of those that do (I did 2 seasons ago), but I just feel that while we continue to get 55+k members, they give zero fu**s about the odd disgruntled member chucking it in. Until they get like 20k non renewals they can do whatever the fu** they like

They're still in debt . How's that possible?

 

[port_adelaide_1870]

Kochie

" Ken has the best win loss ratio since 2004"

" People need to calm down"



Spill the board now. Nobody is accountable whatsoever

Guess we can chuck the “we exist to win premierships” in the bin. Good win loss ratio seems to be acceptable

 

[TeeKray]

I can see what hes saying but, nah, the time hs passed i think

Either way, read the room.

36 hours after a disaster of that scale it should be apologies and 'we're dead set spewing' not 'all good, nothing to see here'.

 

[finbarr]

The stability thing has always irked me you have to show something to warrant staying the course, if not people get comfortable it's not an environment for success.
What's the plan David an umpteenth reshuffle of assistants around Ken? Another 'missing piece' to jizz over?

It appears that every single off-season someone "in the know" tells me "the club is going to ramp up the support in the box around Ken".
It's all about stability with Koch, otherwise you'd just cut off the snakes head and start afresh with new people and ideas.
Just cut off the head for **** sake!!!

 

[PAFC66]

Guess we can chuck the “we exist to win premierships” in the bin. Good win loss ratio seems to be acceptable

Guess so , what about exist to make the community proud? That seems like that needs to go too then?

 

[2121]

I just signed up on Twitter for the first time in years.

#sackken

Get it trending

 

[PAFC66]

Either way, read the room.

36 hours after a disaster of that scale it should be apologies and 'we're dead set spewing' not 'all good, nothing to see here'.

And certainly not telling the fans to "calm down"

 

[port_adelaide_1870]

Koch was the one that gave him extension after extension. This is no surprise to me

 

[Arsene Wenger]

It appears that every single off-season someone "in the know" tells me "the club is going to ramp up the support in the box around Ken".
It's all about stability with Koch, otherwise you'd just cut off the snakes head and start afresh with new people and ideas.
Just cut off the head for fu** sake!!!

Koch is tied to Ken and committed to see it through even tho it will never succeed. Escalation of commitment. The only way Ken goes is if you replace Kochie.

 

[MrMeaner]

David Koch sees himself as some sort of a deity. The whole "true believers" thing is the dead givaway of this.

Many small business spivs do.

 

[70sDinosaur]

None of this is surprising.

Koch isn't there to serve the interests of the PAFC, he is there to serve the interests of the AFL and he is giving them exactly what they want. A Port that is reasonably stable, does not cause them headaches, wins enough to keep people buying memberships and coming through the turnstiles but not too successful lest they take too much away from the big Vic clubs and the designated fairytales.

The core business of the AFL is making money out of the Melbourne market and the northern markets. That means making the big Vic clubs strong and letting the weaker Vic clubs have their fairytales, as well as propping up teams further north for the rest of eternity.

We are nothing to the AFL other than a schedule filler. The second team in a small market. We are one of the designated "once in a lifetime premiership" teams. We filled our quota in 2004 and it's probably only the younger people on this forum that are likely to see the next one.

 

[70sDinosaur]

Just as an aside, I reckon it's about time this graphic was updated with someone from the Pentagon telling us that America is winning in Afghanistan.