Opinion Sack Hinkley 7 - "Turn it around or watch out"

[PowerLil]

Unbelievable we are going into another season with this dickhead in charge. Season 11!! Off the back finishing 11th.

Thanked Koch and Richardson for their loyalty. Fmd. We exist to be loyal to bog average coaches.

 

[JimmyBC]

Life Member Donuts

 

[Del165198]

Life Member Donuts

 

[Del165198]

At this point ken Hinkley is a form of abuse

 

[portly]

Once upon a time it was the admin and supporters against the rest.

Right now it feels like the admin and the rest against the supporters.

Hinkley wouldn't have thanked the admin for their support (against the fans) if us hoi polloi had been allowed in the BnF.

 

[Us against the rest]

Normally I would be quite bullish going into a new season, especially with the list we have but Hinkley. You just know he will find a way and an excuse to butcher another season.

I just don't feel anything any more and as much as our list has improved, so have other clubs lists.
Going into year 11 with a coach on the back of nothing, a Chairman and board that have dismissed failure and encouraged mediocrity, leaves no excitement.

Imagine going into 2023 with a new coach with fresh ideas at the helm, I can only hope that the appointment of Carr is a step in that direction, although the club continues to back a loser.

I am learning to to live without Port Adelaide as a priority in my life.

 

[philreich]

I'm still shaking my head at Ken's comment last night, praising the club for its stability. Mate - 15 years without a grand final appearance (in that time, 12 rival clubs have played in at least 1) isn't stability: it's mediocrity - something our club continues to embrace.

 

[Byrons Firen]

I'm still shaking my head at Ken's comment last night, praising the club for its stability. Mate - 15 years without a grand final appearance (in that time, 12 rival clubs have played in at least 1) isn't stability: it's mediocrity - something our club continues to embrace.

I thought his speech was as short as possible because he had to defend the indefensible. Stability as you mention then clarity and loyalty.

Odd words to use that were really all about him but this self centred approach has been the hallmark of his time with us.

Now the campaigner is a life member. Jesus *ing christ where do I throw up. I genuinely hate this man with a vengeance and as for Koch

I shake my head in contempt.

 

[tribey]

I'm still shaking my head at Ken's comment last night, praising the club for its stability. Mate - 15 years without a grand final appearance (in that time, 12 rival clubs have played in at least 1) isn't stability: it's mediocrity - something our club continues to embrace.

The underlying inference that it was ‘instability’ that led to the oft-referenced crutch of 2010-12, too.

We could’ve given Williams a 20 year contract the morning after the 2004 Grand Final and sh¡t’s still going down the way it did.

 

[TeeKray]

It's just spin to protect their own positions. How else do you justify a decade of mediocrity and heading into season 11 as far away from the goal as we've ever been in that decade?

 

[Ford Fairlane]

He looked tired last night.

 

[philreich]

It's just spin to protect their own positions. How else do you justify a decade of mediocrity and heading into season 11 as far away from the goal as we've ever been in that decade?

Bingo - the official line is that we're so much better off now than we were in 2012: I beg to differ. At least back then, the idea of not renewing one's membership was foreign to Port fans - now it's commonplace, and will remain so until Hinkley departs.

 

[tribey]

He looked tired last night.

Good sign coming off the break.

 

[Del165198]

The underlying inference that it was ‘instability’ that led to the oft-referenced crutch of 2010-12, too.

We could’ve given Williams a 20 year contract the morning after the 2004 Grand Final and sh¡t’s still going down the way it did.

It's stability in the same way a data entry clerk whose done the same job for 20 years comes home to an empty house with his pet goldfish and watches the nighty news then falls asleep with the tv on. Doing the same thing for the sake of mediocrity.

Stable - but with rapidly declining crowds, still piles of debt, a record of making finals 50% of the time but achieving nothing, a declining membership (likely), and a disaffected supporter base. How good is it? If you're ken hinkley's bank balance, very good indeed.

 

[JimmyBC]

It just had the same vibe it's had for ages they are too invested in a model of stability that doesn't work in football clubs.

 

[tribey]

It's stability in the same way a data entry clerk whose done the same job for 20 years comes home to an empty house with his pet goldfish and watches the nighty news then falls asleep with the tv on. Doing the same thing for the sake of mediocrity.

Stable - but with rapidly declining crowds, still piles of debt, a record of making finals 50% of the time but achieving nothing, a declining membership (likely), and a disaffected supporter base. How good is it? If you're ken hinkley's bank balance, very good indeed.

And this is the thing. You couldn’t shovel this sh¡t when the only knowledge the average supporter had was filtered and drip-fed via old media.

To keep pushing this ‘quiet children, father knows best’ angle in this day and age is comical.

Like the imminent fall of East Germany.

 

[JimmyBC]

If Hinkley jagged a flag now (lol) they would see it as validation when in reality it's barely minimum chips for this entire period.

 

[philreich]

If Hinkley jagged a flag now (lol) they would see it as validation when in reality it's barely minimum chips for this entire period.

I wouldn't complain though, but hands up everyone who thinks we can win a flag with Ken as coach......

 

[JimmyBC]

I wouldn't complain though, but hands up everyone who thinks we can win a flag with Ken as coach......

I think we are potentially building a midfield that any idiot could coach to a GF however..

 

[Macca_1870]

I wouldn't complain though, but hands up everyone who thinks we can win a flag with Ken as coach......

That's the worst part - we all know that we should complain, but such is the craving for some success, no-one would.

 

[tribey]

I wouldn't complain though, but hands up everyone who thinks we can win a flag with Ken as coach......

If it was to somehow happen the “I told you so”’s by idiots who’ve subscribed to the ‘poor Ken, the tortured genius’ shtick would be unbearable.

“APOLOGISE” [8 years after he killed my enthusiasm for the club] “HE HAS PROVED YOU WRONG” [at the 17th attempt], etc.

 

[Cheesey Mac]

If it was to somehow happen the “I told you so”’s by idiots who’ve subscribed to the ‘poor Ken, the tortured genius’ shtick would be unbearable.

“APOLOGISE” [8 years after he killed my enthusiasm for the club] “HE HAS PROVED YOU WRONG” [at the 17th attempt], etc.

If the binary options were 'Win the Premiership' or 'Ken gets sacked' then I'm still wanting us to win a premiership but for the reason you've described I genuinely had to hesitate and think about it (beyond simply loathing Ken at this point and not wanting him in my football club a moment longer). You just know that if he did jag one then the next season he'd go nuclear in terms of mission accomplished complacency and we'd finish 14th, and we'd enter another sustained period of underachieving.

After 10 years of garbage Ken has made even the prospect of winning feel like a joyless waste of time because it means his survival in the job.

 

[EskimoPAFC]

I wouldn't complain though, but hands up everyone who thinks we can win a flag with Ken as coach......

The funny thing is that outside of the general acceptance that we might win a flag in spite of his poor coaching, there is pretty much nobody left that thinks he will increase our chances.

Even those defending him now stick to either "we have to finish his contract because its the right thing to do" and "yes we're mediocre but its better than where we were in 2012". I can't remember the last time someone genuinely tried to argue he is actually the guy to deliver us success.

 

[EskimoPAFC]

I hate the fact that I'm going into 2023, not feeling excited about how we'll go in round 1 against Brisbane. Yeah it'd be great to knock off the Lions for once, but if we don't, it's surely one step closer to Ken getting the boot.

Honestly I think that a 15+ goal loss would probably be better for the club - a wake up call that maybe for once wouldn't be ignored.

 

[tribey]

Honestly I think that a 15+ goal loss would probably be better for the club - a wake up call that maybe for once wouldn't be ignored.

The ultimately futile Carlton comeback when halfway to a triple-figure drubbing was sooooooooooooooo Port.