Opinion Sack Hinkley 5 - Lower The Blinds

[Ford Fairlane]

Who is "Tom"?

Jonas

 

[AFC AFeederClub]

This time feels different.

A lot of people have called for Hinkley to go over the past 4 or 5 years, but across the wider supporter base he seemed to be backed in. It feels like the consensus has turned and he's lost the large majority of supporters now. Helped by the media calling out the awful gameplan, which is hard to miss without Charlie covering it up - finally.

Happening so early in the season probably means even the head in the sand board won't be able to ignore it and keep him for the whole season, let alone 2023. Feels like he's actually gone this year once finals are impossible. Although a caretaker coach will short staff our already thin coaching line up.

you mean the same Charlie then is good at beating up bottom 8 defences but continually goes to water against better teams. The sooner we get over the fallacy of Charlie Dixon the better.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Jonas

Who?

 

[RustyCage]

David King was scathing on SEN this morning. Placed the blame 100% on Ken. Said the easiest thing the coach can do at the end of a game like that is place a spare defender behind the ball. Ken didn’t do that. A defender 30m from goal straight out in front means Himmelberg doesn’t take that mark and goal, and McKenzie doesn’t need to take a mark against the flight of the ball

Very rarely do I agree with David King

 

[Tim Chinever]

For this and many other reasons, Ken in 2019 was one of the absolute all round worst coaching performances I've ever seen. It beggars belief that he survived that season.

Round 8,2015 was where he lost me by giving skeletor his 300th and final game! Couldn’t be arsed clapping the selfish prick off! Get what you deserve indeed

 

[WhyAlwaysMe]

David King was scathing on SEN this morning. Placed the blame 100% on Ken. Said the easiest thing the coach can do at the end of a game like that is place a spare defender behind the ball. Ken didn’t do that. A defender 30m from goal straight out in front means Himmelberg doesn’t take that mark and goal, and McKenzie doesn’t need to take a mark against the flight of the ball

Very rarely do I agree with David King

David King just last week was saying Port need to stick with Hinkley while they go through a mini rebuild. The guy is an idiot.

 

[Gryllis]

you mean the same Charlie then is good at beating up bottom 8 defences but continually goes to water against better teams. The sooner we get over the fallacy of Charlie Dixon the better.

Yes exactly, and that beating up of bottom 8 teams covered up some of the biggest problems with Ken's plan over the last few years. Without Charlie, continuing with the same old plan is far more exposed to the casual supporters.

 

[RustyCage]

David King just last week was saying Port need to stick with Hinkley while they go through a mini rebuild. The guy is an idiot.

He is, yes

 

[tribey]

Lol wtf

He was universally adored after 13/14.

It wasn't until 2015 the cracks started to appear

• 2013 — 12-10, out in SF (supporter mood: universal 100% approval rating). Big Recruit: Polec added in the subsequent off-season.

• 2014 — 14-8 after starting 11-2, out in PF (supporter mood: some murmurings about neglecting structure and forward inefficiency, still very high approval rating). Big Recruit: Ryder added in the subsequent off-season.

• 2015 — 12-10 and missed the 8 including losses to 17th and 18th despite being a genuine flag fancy (supporter mood: people disappointed, but general consensus is year was a blip in a manner similar to Geelong’s 2006) Big Recruit: Dixon added in the subsequent off-season.

2016 — 10-12 and missed the 8 in a year marked by narrow losses and a few beltings at the hands of contenders (supporter mood: more people are beginning to realise this guy ain’t it). The early days of ‘The Portress’ are long gone as we lose 8 times at the venue in one season alone. Big Recruit: nil

2017 — 14-8, out in EF. In a season marked by easy wins over also-rans but constant losses to contenders, the low-point is an 84pt Showdown belting on the eve of finals (supporter mood: the post-season bumper contract extension fractures the fanbase between the outraged and delighted, not least because CEO Keith Thomas deems the year ‘a pass mark’). Big recruits: Rockliff, Motlop and Watts added in the subsequent off-season.

2018 — 12-10 and miss the eight from an 11-4 start (supporter mood: dissenters can only weep and ask, “how long is he now contracted to?”). Made worse by the fact most saw some sort of collapse coming, as the first 15 rounds were some of the least convincing wins ever recorded. Big Recruits: Scott Lycett and Ryan Burton join hyped draftees Rozee/Butters/Duursma as Chad Wingard, Jared Polec and Jasper Pittard are sacrificed in a list pivot in the subsequent off-season.

2019 — 11-11 and miss the eight (supporter mood: most sane people are apoplectic that Ken has effectively torched 5 whole years of what was supposed to be a premiership window, with absolutely nothing to show for it). Year is punctuated by a massive upset loss to 15th-placed North Melbourne, whose ruckman and full-forward dominate while Lycett and Howard languish in the reserves. CEO Keith Thomas complains that Ken doesn’t get enough credit for the year, ‘selflessly’ playing ‘kids’, while the team is full of 30 year olds. Gerard Whateley lectures Port fans who have had enough for allegedly being unrealistic to expect success. Big Recruit: nil.

2020 — Minor Premiers, out in PF (supporter mood: what just happened?). COVID turns the entire season into an ethereal sh¡tshow of asterisks, but when the smoke clears, Port misses a golden opportunity to win through to their first GF since 2007, with the added incentive of it being on neutral territory in Queensland, rather than in the belly of the beast. Koch rewards Ken with another extension, because apparently actually contending as expected for the first time in six seasons is an achievement above and beyond the head coach’s remit. Expectations ramp up. Big Recruit: Aliir Aliir and Orazio Fantasia join in the subsequent off-season.

2021 — 17-5, out in PF (supporter mood: humiliation, rage, PTSD, p¡ss off back to Camperdown already). In a return to partial normality, Port picks up where it left off and makes it back to the pointy end, this time getting blown apart in a home Prelim by an injury-riddled Dogs outfit who’d logged more flight miles than Apollo 11, and again missing out on a neutral-venue shot at a flag. A buoyant Hinkley who had bragged that supporters should judge things at the end of the year after the victorious Geelong QF, now says supporters shouldn’t judge things on one result a quick fortnight later, in the aftermath of the club’s heaviest home defeat since 2011. Big Recruit: Jordan Dawson Jeremy Finlayson joins in the off-season.

And the ride’s still not over.

 

[AFC AFeederClub]

David King was scathing on SEN this morning. Placed the blame 100% on Ken. Said the easiest thing the coach can do at the end of a game like that is place a spare defender behind the ball. Ken didn’t do that. A defender 30m from goal straight out in front means Himmelberg doesn’t take that mark and goal, and McKenzie doesn’t need to take a mark against the flight of the ball

Very rarely do I agree with David King

he missed the whole point, hes going after Ken for not flooding the back line. Im going after Ken for not winning by 8 goals against a team who is 5 years behind in development in both experience and skill and who are easily in the bottom 3 in the comp as everyone knows. To measure yourself against the Crows at this point in the clubs premiership tilt is just embarassing, to say the answer is to work harder is even more embarassing because the players would know that isnt the answer, the supporters know it isnt the answer and we all know what is the answer, and that is to sack Ken, not just because he is a massive knob but because he has allowed the soft underbelly of this club to permeate though his entire coaching and that is why they fail when they are really put to the test (west coast loss, north melbourne loss, richmond loss, wb loss just to name a few) Everyone of those losses have been dealt with a broom and a carpet because Ken thinks that its better to continue on with the process than to deal with the problems that are there. The players have been conditioned to accept loss as a part of footy so now that is what they do, they just accept it.

 

[Doctor Feel]

He WaS nEvEr TrUlY aCcEpTeD

 

[Mikey13G]

David King just last week was saying Port need to stick with Hinkley while they go through a mini rebuild. The guy is an idiot.

Probably lost some money betting on Port on Friday night

 

[WhyAlwaysMe]

Probably lost some money betting on Port on Friday night

Hopefully he goes the way of Ox.

 

[JimmyBC]

I saw Josh Jenkins

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in a peak busy rundle mall once I appeared to be the only person that noticed him, I couldn't think of a more anonymous Crow tbh although I did see Dean Gore in JB Hifi.. how fukced up is it that I recognise these nobodies.

I doubt Jerka was approached by many fans is all I'm saying, he's probably basing it all on one encounter in his highly vanilla Adelaide 'celeb' time.

 

[Doctor Feel]

 

[Enviable Tradition]

David King just last week was saying Port need to stick with Hinkley while they go through a mini rebuild. The guy is an idiot.

Shhh.

The media think he isn tactical genius.

Don't correct them while he's criticising Ken.

 

[JUSTWORK]

David King was scathing on SEN this morning. Placed the blame 100% on Ken. Said the easiest thing the coach can do at the end of a game like that is place a spare defender behind the ball. Ken didn’t do that. A defender 30m from goal straight out in front means Himmelberg doesn’t take that mark and goal, and McKenzie doesn’t need to take a mark against the flight of the ball

Very rarely do I agree with David King

Exactly the same in the Brisbane game.

Hinkleys refusal to make changes during games is why we are 0-3 not 2-1.

 

[Doctor Feel]

INSIDE THE BRILLIANT MIND OF KEN HINKLEY

 

[EskimoPAFC]

he missed the whole point, hes going after Ken for not flooding the back line. Im going after Ken for not winning by 8 goals against a team who is 5 years behind in development in both experience and skill and who are easily in the bottom 3 in the comp as everyone knows. To measure yourself against the Crows at this point in the clubs premiership tilt is just embarassing, to say the answer is to work harder is even more embarassing because the players would know that isnt the answer, the supporters know it isnt the answer and we all know what is the answer, and that is to sack Ken, not just because he is a massive knob but because he has allowed the soft underbelly of this club to permeate though his entire coaching and that is why they fail when they are really put to the test (west coast loss, north melbourne loss, richmond loss, wb loss just to name a few) Everyone of those losses have been dealt with a broom and a carpet because Ken thinks that its better to continue on with the process than to deal with the problems that are there. The players have been conditioned to accept loss as a part of footy so now that is what they do, they just accept it.

The thing is that you are both right in this situation.

The first question is why we didn't put them away in the first quarter given where the two teams are respectively. The second question is why we didn't do it in the second.

The third question is why once we did get away in the third did we not put the foot down rather than go defensive.

The fourth question is once you've ****ed every single other thing up to get to that point in the fourth, why you wouldn't make the obvious moves to ice the game at that point.

The coaching failed every single question asked on Friday.

 

[PatientMental]

INSIDE THE BRILLIANT MIND OF KEN HINKLEY

**** I'm gonna laugh when that article preemptively delivered the killing blow.

 

[MrMeaner]

INSIDE THE BRILLIANT MIND OF KEN HINKLEY

I have statements...

 

[Mikey13G]

Finally Ken getting some attention! 0-3 is the worst start to a Port season since 2011. If it's 0-4 after Thursday night it will be worst start to a season since 2008.

https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/afl/afl-2022-all-the-port-adelaide-news-ahead-of-round-4/news-story/9c0eae8d3d3e7d65c3fb49bc1036b908

"After the past two Power games, “Ken Hinkley” has been trending on Twitter, and the vast majority of posts about the Port senior coach were at the very best questioning whether his 10th season should be his last".

Prior to the Showdown Charlie Dixon

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said he was sick of the negativity.

“Just support us, get behind us, let’s go and do it together. Do you want to do it together or do you want to jump off,” he said on FIVEaa.

“I’m sick of it.”

Port chairman David Koch says the “intense pressure” on Hinkley in South Australia makes “AFL gurus in Victoria shake their head”.

But after the loss in the Showdown this pressure is only to get more intense with more and more fans appearing to have made up their minds".

 

[Ford Fairlane]

David King just last week was saying Port need to stick with Hinkley while they go through a mini rebuild. The guy is an idiot.

All those commentators hunt with the hounds and run with the foxes. A couple of years back King wanted Hinkley gone because almost no coach wins anything after that long at one club. Then he makes a couple of prelim finals and King swaps sides.

 

[AFC AFeederClub]

Finally Ken getting some attention! 0-3 is the worst start to a Port season since 2011. If it's 0-4 after Thursday night it will be worst start to a season since 2008.

https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/afl/afl-2022-all-the-port-adelaide-news-ahead-of-round-4/news-story/9c0eae8d3d3e7d65c3fb49bc1036b908

"After the past two Power games, “Ken Hinkley” has been trending on Twitter, and the vast majority of posts about the Port senior coach were at the very best questioning whether his 10th season should be his last".

Prior to the Showdown Charlie Dixon said he was sick of the negativity.

“Just support us, get behind us, let’s go and do it together. Do you want to do it together or do you want to jump off,” he said on FIVEaa.

“I’m sick of it.”

Port chairman David Koch says the “intense pressure” on Hinkley in South Australia makes “AFL gurus in Victoria shake their head”.

But after the loss in the Showdown this pressure is only to get more intense with more and more fans appearing to have made up their minds".

Charlie Dixon reminds me of that little girl with the punchable face on the AFLW ad's where she says "dont compare us, join us"

 

[dirty2]

I'm probably one of the biggest "Hinkley Haters" going around and I sang an Ace of Base song about the man ffs.

Permanent thread ban!