Opinion Sack Hinkley 5 - Lower The Blinds

[Steve Dore]

I don't read or listen to anything this bozo says any more. Has he actually ever spoken about tactical acumen at any of these things?

Hinkley doesn't need tactical acumen because he truly believes that everything that happens in a game is just down to luck

 

[dirty2]

Was at the Elizabeth police station the other day... And some crack head who had done meth said he was hearing voices and seeing things.... I would rather him as coach then ken.

 

[TeeKray]

Currently have the spicy cough and I blame Hinkley. Here's why:

• Pretty certain I caught it at the game on Sunday.
• The only reason I was at the game was because Port Adelaide was playing.
• If Ken Hinkley didn't save the club, there wouldn't have been a Port Adelaide to go watch.

Sack Hinkley.

 

[PowerBaz]

 

[VineValerian]

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Ken Hinkley has been linked to a potential move north given the shaky season of Port Adelaide, but the club and its long-term coach seem to have other ideas.

Jon Ralph | Herald Sun

Port Adelaide and Ken Hinkley are committed to him seeing out his contract for 2023 despite an open coaching market and speculation about a move to Greater Western Sydney.

Hinkley has no interest in entering into a coaching process with the Giants as he attempts to drag the Power into the finals from a rocky 0-5 start to the year.
The 55-year-old has been linked to a potential move given the shaky season of Port Adelaide and a tenure that is about to approach 10 completed seasons.
Hinkley continues to react angrily to suggestions that he might jump ship as he is persistently linked to clubs including GWS.

The Giants have ramped up their coaching search by meeting four-time premiership coach Alastair Clarkson as they prepare to receive a board presentation from caretaker Mark McVeigh.
Port Adelaide chief executive Matthew Richardson’s strong statement that he would also coach out his contract for 2023 is backed by the belief the Power are still in the premiership window next year.
Port Adelaide’s view is that with players like Todd Marshall, Mitch Georgiades, Connor Rozee, Zac Butters and Lachie Jones still to reach their peak they still have a significant upside.

The club’s oldest player Travis Boak will play on given his form next year and Robbie Gray’s excellent showing against Fremantle (21 possessions) means he is likely to also go on into 2023.
As for any coach entering a decade in charge of a club without a premiership Hinkley has polarised the fan base, with some members keen for a change in philosophy.

But there is a genuine belief from the club’s administration and football department that Hinkley has the firm respect of the players and the opportunity to win an elusive flag in 2023.
Richardson has been impressed by Hinkley’s unwavering focus during those dark early rounds when the Power went winless and capacity to bring the side back to finals contention.

He told News Corp last month there was no doubt about Hinkley’s coaching future.
“Ken is our coach and he will be our coach in 2023. He has taken us to the last two preliminary finals and has shown great strength. He is contracted for 2023 and that is not going to change.”
If Hinkley coaches on into 2023 as expected there will be continued scrutiny on him given the expiry of his current contract but when he last coached for his career in 2020 he won a new contract given his team’s performance.

Only a disastrous last third of the season would give the club cause to reconsider but bringing in a new coach like premiership player Adam Kingsley, now at Richmond, would not guarantee immediate success.
Chairman David Koch made clear last week the club had stayed rock-solid despite its early-season issues.
“Football clubs start to worry about coaching and coaching groups when there is fighting among players and coaches and there is a lack of support for each other,” he said.
“There is not one iota of that at Port Adelaide Football Club and there has not been for the whole year.”

My heart just sank when I read the 'Tiser article today

Just shoot me into the sun ifvwe have to put up with more of the same.

 

[Lefti93]

we're actually a long way off being like gdubs. they've parted ways with their long time coach and the caretaker is letting them play their natural footy and taken the clamps off. meanwhile down at alby everything is roses.

 

[Us against the rest]

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[Us against the rest]

Saints coach withstands pressure to re-sign as ‘best person’ to lead club to ‘longed-for’ second flag

Saints coach withstands pressure to re-sign as ‘best person’ to lead club to ‘longed-for’ second flag

www.foxsports.com.au

We will wait until Ratten wins a flag then the club will tell it's supporters, look at St Kilda, they stuck with their coach and won a flag, so we are sticking with Ken until the 2031 season.

Ken would have taken the club from extinction and won7 out the next 9 Premierships, ungrateful supporters.

 

[El_Scorcho]

The dislike among large swathes of the supporter base has become something of a weeping sore. Everyone knows it, even the media is now discussing it. You really have to question a man who chooses to stick around in that environment.
I don't know aboit others, but if that were me in his position I'd be getting out asap, go find a job somewhere you're welcome as an assistant. The AFL is full of assistant coaches who failed as senior coaches who were run out of their clubs. There's absolutely no shame in returning to the assistant coaching ranks. But this psychopath just hangs around where he's not welcome like a house guest who sleeps on the couch, eats all your food, and doesn't clean the toilet bowl after dropping a particularly foul turd.
Just piss off already. Leon Cameron did the decent thing by GWS. Take a leaf out of his book.

Absolutely, the disdain is palpable. It's not just bigfooty lunatics either, it's everyone. I think the only thing holding us back from pitchforks at Alberton is the assumption that we miss the 8 and he's gone. If we miss the 8 and he keeps his job, it's going to be a really interesting time to be a Port supporter because it'll be all out war between the supporter base and the club.

 

[El_Scorcho]

UNWAVERING FOCUS

Wavering Focus could be the title of the book about Hinkley's tenure.

 

[Lockhart Road]

Wavering Focus could be the title of the book about Hinkley's tenure.

BRILLIANT MOIND

 

[bacharach]

Such irony that Ken and co 'saved' our club, when in actual fact, 10 years later we're never been further away from the old PAFC and what it stands for. No semblance what so ever now.

I find it absolutely insane that so many people confuse the lifeline that AO attendances gave us, with what this bog average coach and his enablers have done.

 

[Coobk001]

Hinkley: Our focus remains on what we can control

Port Adelaide wants to remain the wild card in the race to September's top-eight AFL finals. Senior coach Ken Hinkley insists there is only one way to approach the enormous challenge this brings.

www.portadelaidefc.com.au

"We are 7-3 in the past 10 - that says we are capable. We have a game (Saturday night) that we need to stay focused on. And if we do that, we have a chance. Go away from that (narrow) focus - and you are no chance," Hinkley said.

STOP SAYING THIS SHIT!!!! IT MEANS NOTHING!!!!!

You can't conveniently chop and change sections of the draw to only consider the games you want to consider. We are 7-3 because we played 3 of the worst teams the comp has produced in years, and we are only 4-3 outside of that. The first 0-5 wasn't even that much of an abberation. We lost 3 games we would still lose now. We also nearly lost to the Crows in their home game last year so that isn't unrealistic. The only shock of our year to date was the pumping by Hawthorn.

 

[Duck Farmer]

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Is this a DALL-E generated image of "Creepy uncle eating a bag of dicks"?

 

[StuMan]

"Up yours, Hinkley Haters. We'll see who sacks who."

 

[JimmyBC]

"Up yours, Hinkley Haters. We'll see who sacks who."

Has the shit eating grin of a bloke that isn't going anywhere.

 

[finbarr]

Absolutely, the disdain is palpable. It's not just bigfooty lunatics either, it's everyone. I think the only thing holding us back from pitchforks at Alberton is the assumption that we miss the 8 and he's gone. If we miss the 8 and he keeps his job, it's going to be a really interesting time to be a Port supporter because it'll be all out war between the supporter base and the club.

I come across plenty of Port supporters in my daily life, through work and socially. I can safely say it's close to 100% of them want Hinkley sacked, albeit some with more militant anger than others. Bottom line, I meet literally no one who wants him coaching in 2023.
The idea that it's just a lunatic fringe who want him gone is so patently false it's ludicrous.

 

[Us against the rest]

Crazy, stupid, footy: Port banking on late-season madness

Port Adelaide is banking on some late-season chaos as it chases an unlikely finals berth

www.afl.com.au

PORT Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley has been around long enough to know AFL seasons can throw up "stupid" and "crazy" things.

And he's banking on the madness continuing in the late stages of this season as the Power chase an unlikely finals berth.

Hinkley is a raving lunatic.

 

[finbarr]

Crazy, stupid, footy: Port banking on late-season madness

Port Adelaide is banking on some late-season chaos as it chases an unlikely finals berth

www.afl.com.au

PORT Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley has been around long enough to know AFL seasons can throw up "stupid" and "crazy" things.

And he's banking on the madness continuing in the late stages of this season as the Power chase an unlikely finals berth.

Hinkley is a raving lunatic.

He's just a man fighting for his footballing life, and will throw any snake oil out there to try and placate the masses.
Him saying this sort of stuff before just about every game just suggests he's gone if he doesn't make finals and he knows it.

 

[Don_Kay]

The only Port people that are still backing Ken are either paid by the club, related to someone paid by the club or Facebook comments section, mouth breathers.

 

[hOUTkley]

Hinkley: Our focus remains on what we can control

Port Adelaide wants to remain the wild card in the race to September's top-eight AFL finals. Senior coach Ken Hinkley insists there is only one way to approach the enormous challenge this brings.

www.portadelaidefc.com.au

"We are 7-3 in the past 10 - that says we are capable. We have a game (Saturday night) that we need to stay focused on. And if we do that, we have a chance. Go away from that (narrow) focus - and you are no chance," Hinkley said.

STOP SAYING THIS s**t!!!! IT MEANS NOTHING!!!!!

You can't conveniently chop and change sections of the draw to only consider the games you want to consider. We are 7-3 because we played 3 of the worst teams the comp has produced in years, and we are only 4-3 outside of that. The first 0-5 wasn't even that much of an abberation. We lost 3 games we would still lose now. We nearly lost to the Crows in their home game last year so that isn't unrealistic. The only shock of our year to date was the pumping by Hawthorn.

We're 0-1 in our last 1. That shows we're not capable

STFU Ken you fraud

 

[Us against the rest]

Absolutely, the disdain is palpable. It's not just bigfooty lunatics either, it's everyone. I think the only thing holding us back from pitchforks at Alberton is the assumption that we miss the 8 and he's gone. If we miss the 8 and he keeps his job, it's going to be a really interesting time to be a Port supporter because it'll be all out war between the supporter base and the club.

 

[Don_Kay]

We're 0-1 in our last 1. That shows we're not capable

STFU Ken you fraud

Stop being present in the moment and live in the arbitrary 10 week period that makes Ken look good.

 

[Us against the rest]

He's just a man fighting for his footballing life, and will throw any snake oil out there to try and placate the masses.
Him saying this sort of stuff before just about every game just suggests he's gone if he doesn't make finals and he knows it.

He may slip in his own snake oil this weekend.

 

[bacharach]

The sooner we're out of contention the better. Let's get this show on the road so Ken, Richo, Koch and their lapdog have no where to hide.