Opinion Sack Hinkley 4 - Show Him The Door

[TeeKray]

And Ken thinks it doesn't matter if we don't beat top 4 sides

It doesn't.

Judge us at the end of the season.

And guess what? The team that knocked us out of the finals finished 5th.

Game, set and match 10%ers!

 

[Footy Time]

It doesn't.

Judge us at the end of the season.

And guess what? The team that knocked us out of the finals finished 5th.

Game, set and match 10%ers!

You know what the sad part is? This is exactly the kind of thing that Ken Hinkley would spew out in a press conference. And his cult of true believers would eat it up.

 

[Footy Time]

I'm a proud 10%er.

**** you, Hinkley.

 

[edgie]

Who is gonna do a 10% flag and take it to a game?

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[70sDinosaur]

tribey

Clayton Oliver when asked when he believed they could win the premiership - 'We had a really great win against Port at Adelaide Oval ...'

Didn't Richmond say the same thing in 2017?

We exist to help other teams win premierships.

 

[JimmyBC]

We just won a club brownlow what more do you ungrateful 10%ers want?

 

[afl2004]

Hahah, yessssss.

I wrote this in my mates’ group chat just on an hour ago:

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We need a list of this said over hinkleys reign ??

 

[Revan11]

Who is gonna do a 10% flag and take it to a game?

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So much this!

 

[PowerBaz]

So much this!

 

[Thunderer]

Reposting this from a couple of years ago. Still valid today. Don't know who the original author is, but good on you mate.

 

[Chewy316]

Round 1, 2013. Round 1, 2019. And even last year's demolition of Melbourne in QLD - you would never have thought at any of these stages that they'd win a premiership before us. It was only 12 months ago that Melbourne looked so far from winning it.

Yet apparently 9 years is not long enough to have stayed the course with Hinkley, FFS.

 

[Harlott]

Didn't Richmond say the same thing in 2017?

We exist to help other teams win premierships.

And also a Bulldogs player in 2016, in that game when someone inappropriate was left on Jake Stringer in the last qtr.

 

[King_Tredrea]

Good on Melbourne. But **** that further highlights everything wrong with our club atm.

 

[backtozero]

Turf him, make Monty head coach.
Turf Bassett and get an ex-forward to coach the forwards.
Surround Monty with experienced people that have proven results in coaching.

 

[Us against the rest]

The club is about stability now. Ken gets us 8-12 wins a year. Keeps us afloat.

Crows will win a premiership before we even make another GF

Actually you made me think, it's okay to be shit while the customers are down the bottom, this crap would not have gone down so well with all the happy clappers if the Crows were going well, then the pressure would have been really on.

We have become such a weak club.

 

[Us against the rest]

Goodwin only took 5 years to 1. Make a GF and 2. Win one.

A club with real expectation gets it done.

 

[Harlott]

We don’t truly know if it’s our players or the coach or a bit of both because it’s been too heavily slanted towards a scenario where we’re trying to eliminate, over a long period of nine years so far, that it’s about the players.

 

[drcollossimo]

A club with real expectation gets it done.

The other thing that was clear was they wanted to do it for the club and it’s supporters

contrast that to our boys “we want to get Ken the premiership he’s deserves” “it’s only 10%” etc etc

it’s an insular boys club protecting their head boy pathetic

 

[Interstater]

Dear Ken

You asked us to wait and see what happens in finals.
You failed miserably in the preliminary final, the way we played from minute one of that game is your fault.
The lack of change during the game to fix the problems is your fault.

Man up and take responsibility.
You have been weighed, you have been measured, you have been found wanting.

You are the weak link in the chain.
Take your greyhounds and hit the road.

We want to be successful again.
That can't happen with such a weak link in the chain.

Goodbye.

 

[Chewy316]

We don’t truly know if it’s our players or the coach or a bit of both because it’s been too heavily slanted towards a scenario where we’re trying to eliminate, over a long period of nine years so far, that it’s about the players.

The blame never lies fully with the coaches or the playing group. It is always a sliding scale. I'm not even sure that the club fully blames the players because of the frequent coaching turnover that we have seen under Hinkley over the last 9 years. Hinkley however has on a few occasions said in order to improve we need better players - even said that much in his post season interview with Tredrea on FiveAA.

We know we have on paper, a squad that should be contending with the best sides in the competition. For that reason, the expectations around what is a "pass" for this group (players and coaches) differs much from a side like the Crows who are happy with just being competitive without actually winning for the time being.

However, our board and in particular our president, has conditioned the members to keep expectations as low as possible whilst accentuate the positives as if they are over-achievements rather than the minimum expectations (or even underperformances).

It is for that reason why Hinkley is loved by our president. The club will never bottom out, will always remain competitive, and despite however good the machinations of the club are around Hinkley, Hinkley's mere presence results in measured expectations such that even making finals is a "success" and reason to stay the course.

The biggest mistake our president has made is running our on-field footy department as if it is a business rather than a sporting organisation. A business who is working "fine" will forever keep the status quo because they are remaining financially viable. A sporting organisation however fundamentally works on the premise first and foremost that if you win, the "rest" of it (ie the off-field ventures, the corporate sponsorship etc) will follow. Our president has seemed to forgotten that.

 

[Duck Farmer]

"Don't judge us now, judge us in <some arbitrary point in time in the future when we hope you've forgotten about it>"

An arbitrary amount of time passes ...

"Oh, you remembered?"

"That wasn't us."

 

[Duck Farmer]

The blame never lies fully with the coaches or the playing group. It is always a sliding scale.

Blame maybe. Accountability never.

 

[wannabejack]

I couldn't be bothered with something deep right now, so:

Checked out the 2012 ladder.
We're doing better than Gold Coast

 

[PA88]

In 2022, I don't want to see all of 30+ yo Gray, Boak, Jonas, McKenzie, Motlop, and Dixon in each game if they are fit. Maybe 2 or 3 but not 6. However, Hinkley will play them and depend on them. After 9 years Hinkley depended on a midfield of Wines, Gray, and Boak to win a PF! How that unfolded was deflating to observe and it has me seething that this is where we have gotten to.

 

[edgie]

Round 1, 2013. Round 1, 2019. And even last year's demolition of Melbourne in QLD - you would never have thought at any of these stages that they'd win a premiership before us. ...

Speak for yourself mate