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

[Butters and Pepper]

Richmond actually has sought success, but just been incompetent up until the last 5 years.

Meanwhile we are run by idiots who put their misguided faith in an idiot coach because he probably won't get us a spoon, and he impressed in his early days because he knew what to do with toilet rolls.

 

[Duck Farmer]

he impressed in his early days because he knew what to do with toilet rolls.

I too remember the innocent days of 2013 when we thought Hinkley's mantra of "cleaning up after you shit the bed" meant an unwavering focus on details and discipline and not extorting a contract extension after an embarrassing home PF loss.

 

[Steve Dore]

... he impressed in his early days because he knew what to do with toilet rolls.

IMHO Hinkley exceeded expectations in the early days. He was probably just the type of coach we needed in 2013. Having said that, it was clear in 2015 that he had overachieved and didn't know how to take a team to the next level. He should never have been given a three year contract extension in 2017.

 

[tribey]

IMHO Hinkley exceeded expectations in the early days. He was probably just the type of coach we needed in 2013. Having said that, it was clear in 2015 that he had overachieved and didn't know how to take a team to the next level. He should never have been given a three year contract extension in 2017.

I still think having our two most powerful overseers parachuting in from the distant groupthink of “Porp Hour is a toxic brand with nil talent and it will take them a decade to recover, if at all”, was a ticking timebomb that was never properly defused in terms of assessing progress and adjusting expectations accordingly.

Hinkley was able to parlay the first half and belated September recovery of 2014 into surviving literally half a decade of failure because, ‘WOAWOWWWWW CAN YOU BELIEVE HE TURNED THAT BROKE TARPY SH¡T’EAP AROUND SO QUIGLEY?!’. And he was duly pedestaled by our Chairman and CEO accordingly.

A real Port person — not blow-ins from Norwood and Sydney — would’ve axed him the night of Ben Brown’s 10-goal barrage at the absolute latest.

 

[El_Scorcho]

The 2017 extension was absolutely horrendous and I said so at the time.

Nobody could have earnestly looked at our 2017 form and said we were tracking particularly well. We had an easy draw and didn't beat any sides in the top 8 apart from 6th placed Sydney in round 1, who started the season 0-6, and the 8th placed WCE (before losing to them when it mattered).

We absolutely had to let Hinkley coach for another contract in 2018. If he left, fine. If we gave him another contract at 11-4 before we collapsed and missed the 8, okay. But 2017 was absolutely not okay.

Then to include the lowest of low bars of making the finals once for the extra year. It makes me absolutely sick.

 

[Windy Cindy]

Richmond actually has sought success, but just been incompetent up until the last 5 years.

Meanwhile we are run by idiots who put their misguided faith in an idiot coach because he probably won't get us a spoon, and he impressed in his early days because he knew what to do with toilet rolls.

Richmond also had dusty.

 

[PowerLil]

This is ol' Donuts 11th year ( need I say no GF appearances) and the first time he will coach in a contract year unsigned ( if he's not signed before the season starts ala 2021). We are run by effing morons.

 

[Kingfish73]

Even if the parasite is not extended, he will not be sacked and given a golden shower to say goodbye by both our numpty administrators and the happy clapping supporter base. Vomit.

I want to see him sacked after a few horror beltings...

 

[Del165198]

Even if the parasite is not extended, he will not be sacked and given a golden shower to say goodbye by both our numpty administrators and the happy clapping supporter base. Vomit.

I want to see him sacked after a few horror beltings...

You could always piss on him as he comes up the race...

 

[TazD]

If he gets a farewell game I will 100% be there booing.

 

[tribey]

Richmond also had dusty.

We had Robbie, who is chiefly remembered for constantly saving this bozo’s arse with clutch performances against opponents we should’ve comfortably beaten, having been denied the biggest stages in his prime bar his electric 2014 finals series.

 

[edgie]

We had Robbie, who is chiefly remembered for constantly saving this bozo’s arse with clutch performances against opponents we should’ve comfortably beaten, having been denied the biggest stages in his prime bar his electric 2014 finals series.

Robbie more recently, but in the early years there was Robbie, Chad, Schulz, Boak was clutch til around 2015, John Butcher coming in like Jesus and guiding the team to wallpaper over the cracks at the end of 2015...

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[Marmozet]

When we’re struggling this year and the pressure is insurmountable, Kochie will take the easy way out and announce the Josh Carr succession plan.

Then Hinkley will get a great big farewell match against Richmond in Round 24, he’ll walk off to a standing ovation from the happy clappers and then Gerard will spend a week on AFL 360 sobbing about how great Ken Hinkley was.

Then to make matters worse, Josh Carr or whoever our next coach is (fingers crossed for Adem Yze) will be judged as harshly as Primus by Kochie and the happy clappers in all their wisdom.

 

[Duck Farmer]

Then Hinkley will get a great big farewell match against Richmond in Round 24, he’ll walk off to a standing ovation from the happy clappers and then Gerard will spend a week on AFL 360 sobbing about how great Ken Hinkley was.

Like co-captains, he'll be filed away in the bottom drawer never to be spoken of again.

 

[Hammer#8]

Got in an argument tonight over dinner with a Port supporter, it was every bad Ken true believer stereotype rolled into one.

• Ken saved the club, remember when we almost folded in 2011?!
• Who else is going coach them?
• The players love Ken
• Who do you suggest we get instead?

Ken believers are like flat earthers honestly.

 

[El_Scorcho]

When we’re struggling this year and the pressure is insurmountable, Kochie will take the easy way out and announce the Josh Carr succession plan.

Then Hinkley will get a great big farewell match against Richmond in Round 24, he’ll walk off to a standing ovation from the happy clappers and then Gerard will spend a week on AFL 360 sobbing about how great Ken Hinkley was.

Then to make matters worse, Josh Carr or whoever our next coach is (fingers crossed for Adem Yze) will be judged as harshly as Primus by Kochie and the happy clappers in all their wisdom.

Yep. Regardless of when he goes, he absolutely 100% doesn't go without a farewell game, and probably more of a send off than Robbie got.

I go back and forth between getting angry that we won't get the unceremonious sacking that we deserve and that the club ultimately needs, and just being happy that he'll finally be gone.

 

[edgie]

Yep. Regardless of when he goes, he absolutely 100% doesn't go without a farewell game, and probably more of a send off than Robbie got.

I go back and forth between getting angry that we won't get the unceremonious sacking that we deserve and that the club ultimately needs, and just being happy that he'll finally be gone.

I have said before but the nature of his departure will ripple through the club for longer than necessary

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[Del165198]

If he does get a farewell it's important that people boo the shit out of the campaigner. I think that would work better than just not showing up

 

[EskimoPAFC]

If he does get a farewell it's important that people boo the s**t out of the campaigner. I think that would work better than just not showing up

Can I say "boo-urns"?

 

[Del165198]

Can I say "boo-urns"?

I was saying "boo-hinkley"

 

[Prison bar Pete]

Got in an argument tonight over dinner with a Port supporter, it was every bad Ken true believer stereotype rolled into one.

• Ken saved the club, remember when we almost folded in 2011?!
• Who else is going coach them?
• The players love Ken
• Who do you suggest we get instead?

Ken believers are like flat earthers honestly.

I have a relative similar to this. Talking footy with him in recent years has been less enjoyable as there was/is mutual distain for our opposing opinions on Ken and the club management. I did detect some hairline cracks in his attitude on Christmas Day this year though!

 

[NoddyHolder]

If he does get a farewell it's important that people boo the s**t out of the campaigner. I think that would work better than just not showing up

Do we play at the cattery this year? That would be the perfect time for a farewell game. At 3 quarter time he could do a ceremonial walk from our huddle to theirs, where he's tearfully embraced by 'his people'. Home at last Kenny. Home at last.

Following the game (where we are beaten by a Tommahawk goal after the siren - after a patented two handed shove in the back to Tom Clurey goes unwhistled) they can load him into the opened boot of a 1986 Ford Escort for a lap of honor around his beloved Kardinia Park.

 

[philreich]

12th best club over the last 10 years, and only 3 coaches have been in the job for longer.

Pack your backs peanut, the removalists have been booked.

Koch might argue that without Ken, we would have been the 15th best club over the last 10 years.......

 

[TeeKray]

Do we play at the cattery this year? That would be the perfect time for a farewell game. At 3 quarter time he could do a ceremonial walk from our huddle to theirs, where he's tearfully embraced by 'his people'. Home at last Kenny. Home at last.

Following the game (where we are beaten by a Tommahawk goal after the siren - after a patented two handed shove in the back to Tom Clurey goes unwhistled) they can load him into the opened boot of a 1986 Ford Escort for a lap of honor around his beloved Kardinia Park.

The only way this could be a more fitting end to the Hinkley era would be for it to be in a preliminary final.

 

[edgie]

Then he applies to join Geelong as an assistant and Chris Scott laughs at him. Kenny graciously accepts retirement and there's an hour special on AFL 360 where Whitely talks about how selfless he is in allowing the next generation of coaches to rise through the ranks when he could walk in to any job in the country.