Opinion Sack Hinkley 4 - Show Him The Door

[JUSTWORK]

So the rumours of Ginever and Ken are more than just rumours I take it?

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Please elaborate.

 

[torpGOD]

Members demanded change, and change we got. Case closed, your honour

Giving Jarrad Schofield a year or two has head coach would've been a good change...

 

[tribey]

Please elaborate.

Probably the same whispers I’ve heard, that the club has sought to silence, or rather ‘massage’, big name dissenters.

 

[edgie]

On one hand, Choco is an awful choice to return as he can't stay in his lane and wants to run the club.

On the other, Hinkley has created a cult like worship of himself all around the community and found jobs for his children.

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[edgie]

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Surprisingly under Hinkley we have won 59.6% of 203 games which is actually better than Clarkson (58.5%) or Hardwick's (56.2%) Coaching record.

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Those two inherited clubs that were on the edge of bottoming out and did so during their time.

Hinkley inherited a Port that had already bottomed out and was ready to start the climb again.

All it takes is a couple of single digit win seasons to mess it all up.

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[Steve Dore]

Needed to work harder for longer
There wasn’t a sustained effort for 4 qtrs
They jumped us early
They’re a good team, aren’t they?
He’s a good player, isn’t he?

 

[StrappingTape]

And, as much as the players might not realise it now, they want to see something different. If a new voice with new ideas and a new enthusiasm walked into the club next week they'd pretty quickly forget Kenny from Camperdown.

Yep, you can't put money on that. Fresh ideas and the excitement that goes through the group, players who had no chance of getting a game under the current coach find some voice and new opportunities etc but nah lets stick fat with a 0% chance at a flag.

 

[PowerLil]

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Seriously, get out of my club.

 

[tribey]

On one hand, Choco is an awful choice to return as he can't stay in his lane and wants to run the club.

On the other, Hinkley has created a cult like worship of himself all around the community and found jobs for his children.

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There’s probably something to Port Nation’s propensity to put individuals on pedestals to the wider detriment of the club at large.

As you point out, we did it with Williams, allowing him to run the joint like his own kingdom to the point where board members seemed scared of him and his influence. We did it with Primus and his forced return from injury in 2005, with disastrous results for the premiership defence.

And we’re doing it with Hinkley and Koch — the YES WE KEN tees weren’t put out by the club, but yikes.

This probably flies somewhere like St Kilda or Fremantle, where success is a loose concept and you’ve got to cling on to any talisman once they appear, but at Port Adelaide? Why?

 

[Lockhart Road]

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Inspirational.

Looks on the verge of cardiac arrest.

Do your family a favour, Ken. Go.

 

[Mikey13G]

Needed to work harder for longer
There wasn’t a sustained effort for 4 qtrs
They jumped us early
They’re a good team, aren’t they?
He’s a good player, isn’t he?

"The Bulldogs are a great team" (Ken Hinkley 10/09/2021)

 

[Footy Time]

Jason Dunstall was scathing of Port's prelim faceplant, but Gerard Whateley doesn't understand the criticism of the coach.

 

[70sDinosaur]

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Hard to put a finger on it, but there's something I find oddly disturbing about Ken's mannerisms in this clip.

Almost like he's been hiding a dark secret that has suddenly been exposed.

Maybe that secret is that he can't actually coach.

 

[afl2004]

Jason Dunstall was scathing of Port's prelim faceplant, but Gerard Whateley doesn't understand the criticism of the coach.

I hate Whitley with all my soul

 

[Mikey13G]

Jason Dunstall was scathing of Port's prelim faceplant, but Gerard Whateley doesn't understand the criticism of the coach.

“The players own their actions for the first 20 minutes of the game and then for the longer that it went…Ken Hinkley is not responsible for the limp attack on the footy, for the failure to meet the collision coming head on, for the tendency to half commit or jump out of the way and this is what happened”.

That’s all well and good to blame the players for their attitude but when it’s a consistent theme against top teams we need to start looking at the coach! For several years the feeling I’ve gotten is that we’ll smash teams that we’re supposed to beat. However, when it comes to a contest and we’re considered as favourites we crumble. When Hinkley first came to the club he got the players thriving on the underdog mentality.

Yet when we did become a great team, we seemed to be unable to release ourselves from that underdog mentality and have consistently fallen apart in must win games where we are the hunted. That probably explains why we’ve been able to make 3 Prelims but never made it to the big dance. I’m sure Ken is a great bloke and the players respect him but he’s taken the club as far as he can. We need change.

Attempting to pass this game off as a bad result or an aberration is an insult. We don't need to paper over the cracks we need a new foundation!

 

[Papa G]

Jason Dunstall was scathing of Port's prelim faceplant, but Gerard Whateley doesn't understand the criticism of the coach.

Every player almost to a man, was off. As a collective, they were off. Hinkley is the coach of the team. He's the chief motivator. He's the chief tactician. He is the leader of men. This is his team. The way they play is a reflection on him. Of course it's his ****ing fault.

 

[edgie]

Jason Dunstall was scathing of Port's prelim faceplant, but Gerard Whateley doesn't understand the criticism of the coach.

Blow me down with a feather.

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[hilling]

coaches in an argy bargy on the night, players arguing in the rooms before the game, players on the piss for days after the cats win. yes the buck stops with ken but an accumulation of factors led to the poor performance

 

[tribey]

Jason Dunstall was scathing of Port's prelim faceplant, but Gerard Whateley doesn't understand the criticism of the coach.

This is why I deleted 504. If I watch that I’ll stroke out.

 

[Winestoppable]

Probably the same whispers I’ve heard, that the club has sought to silence, or rather ‘massage’, big name dissenters.

Pulled Tim in to his office to voice his disapproval.

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[Jojay]

My TV isn't safe when Whateley's on one of his Kenny wank fests.

 

[edgie]

There’s probably something to Port Nation’s propensity to put individuals on pedestals to the wider detriment of the club at large.

As you point out, we did it with Williams, allowing him to run the joint like his own kingdom to the point where board members seemed scared of him and his influence. We did it with Primus and his forced return from injury in 2005, with disastrous results for the premiership defence.

And we’re doing it with Hinkley and Koch — the YES WE KEN tees weren’t put out by the club, but yikes.

This probably flies somewhere like St Kilda or Fremantle, where success is a loose concept and you’ve got to cling on to any talisman once they appear, but at Port Adelaide? Why?

I think there was much more content when Choco was moved on from the masses, despite being a premiership coach, player, and from our most famous family, than there will be when Ken, Geelong flanker, no grand final, is. Choco being boned was accepted as an inevitable conclusion to three seasons of meh. Likewise club great Primus after not even two seasons of a list that was bottoming out and the IT guy moonlighting as midfield coach.

The ability of the club to harness the happy clapper crowd, facebookers, theatre goers, and meme sharing millennials, in to its most central and loudest demographic, from a culture that previously settled for nothing less than winning as often as possible, to become just happy not winning the spoon, is extraordinary. It should be studied. Those who have managed should be the most sought after brand managers in the world, creating the most easily satisfied customer base.

Meanwhile, Collingwood members are more than within their rights to demand an EGM, they are doing their duty as Collingwood people, as is any other supporter group that agitates.


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[edgie]

coaches in an argy bargy on the night, players arguing in the rooms before the game, players on the piss for days after the cats win. yes the buck stops with ken but an accumulation of factors led to the poor performance

I've missed some news, tell me more tell me more.

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[Expat power]

I will never become a happy clapper. 40 years following Port, I will not bend to the mediocrity this club now displays, my kids have thrown their membership away already and I will follow if Hinkley remains as head MUPPET.
All the reasons we love this club have been diluted down to Gold coast levels, I will still take a strong interest in the club and players but I will not condone this bullshit, by paying for something I don't support.

You need to sort your kids out. Seriously if you were the real deal as a supporter you’d never allow that sort of behaviour.

 

[hilling]

I've missed some news, tell me more tell me more.

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schofield and hinkley in a heated argument on saturday night. some saying push and shove but unlikely. makes sense for the heat to be on schofield as midfield coach, scooter was smashing them in the ruck yet we weren't getting the clearances. more importantly players celebrated after the friday night cats win, until monday. long time to the game but still not ideal preparation is it?