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

[Coobk001]

The only thing that'd restore my full faith in the club would be the resignation of Koch and Ken.

Including a press conference where the entire board takes ownership of the mantra "stability equals success" and admits that they had it the wrong way around. It is success that brings stability. We've endured no success, because we stabilised with individuals incapable of bringing that success.

Ken should be let go pretty much no matter what. It will take a GF appearance really to change that, and we'll be lucky to make finals.

 

[El_Scorcho]

I like how they silently take credit when it was the previous administration that got the ball rolling & put themselves on the block in the process.

Yep, not only do they not actively credit the work done by the previous administration.

Not only do they remain quiet and take the praise every time some misinformed person claims they saved the club.

But they repeatedly point to 2012 as a time where the club was at it's lowest ebb, dying on and off the field. It's an absolute slap in the face to the previous administration who put their necks on the line and copped it in order to get this club back on it's feet financially.

If Koch and KT blew in in 2008 instead of 2012/13, who knows where this club would be or what it would be called.

 

[edgie]

And 2012 was by every measure, an improvement on 2011.

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[EskimoPAFC]

He's from a town an hour from Geelong. He played over 100 games, including their 3 GF losses, for them. He was also assistant coach in the drought breaking 2007 and subsequent 2009 premierships.

I think the post was questioning the "go back to", not the "supporting Geelong" bit.

I'd say its pretty clear Ken always has, and will support the Cats first and foremost.

(and for me if he actually got results here I couldn't care less who he barracks for)

 

[rogerjames]

Absolutely.

Part of Ports proud tradition of success has been bringing players, coaches and administrators in from the outside.

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We need fresh non Port blood imo. Someone with a high standing in the game. Realistically thats probably a retired player who has been an assistant coach. Someone else who will come in & change the culture of mediocrity.

 

[TeeKray]

We need fresh non Port blood imo. Someone with a high standing in the game. Realistically thats probably a retired player who has been an assistant coach. Someone else who will come in & change the culture of mediocrity.

This sounds like Ken Hinkley in 2012.

We didn't have a culture of mediocrity until the current administration blew in. We need to restore what we had via someone who lived it.

 

[rogerjames]

Everyone here is forgetting how bad we were in 2012 - 11 years ago! We finished 14th.

Of the teams who finished below us in 2012 - Melbourne, Bulldogs, GWS and Gold Coast - 2 have since won premierships and 3 have made grand finals.

But you Port Adelaide supporters just demand too much!! Get real. This ain’t the SANFL

And no sane person can argue with that logic. It should of killed off Ken years ago.

 

[ClintEastwood]

We need fresh non Port blood imo. Someone with a high standing in the game. Realistically thats probably a retired player who has been an assistant coach. Someone else who will come in & change the culture of mediocrity.

We definitely need to arrest the dangerous flirting with mediocrity. I don't think it necessarily has to be a non-Port, or a Port, person. If Dimma, for example, became available, I'd jump at it.

 

[rogerjames]

This sounds like Ken Hinkley in 2012.

We didn't have a culture of mediocrity until the current administration blew in. We need to restore what we had via someone who lived it.

But Ken had been unsuccessful in numerous attempts to be a senior coach. Having subsequently listened to his coaching media performance over the years it's blatantly clear why.

 

[rogerjames]

We definitely need to arrest the dangerous flirting with mediocrity. I don't think it necessarily has to be a non-Port, or a Port, person. If Dimma, for example, became available, I'd jump at it.

Dimma does excite me. Played a huge role in our premiership.

 

[rogerjames]

The only thing that'd restore my full faith in the club would be the resignation of Koch and Ken.

Including a press conference where the entire board takes ownership of the mantra "stability equals success" and admits that they had it the wrong way around. It is success that brings stability. We've endured no success, because we stabilised with individuals incapable of bringing that success.

Ken should be let go pretty much no matter what. It will take a GF appearance really to change that, and we'll be lucky to make finals.

Will be interesting to watch Freo game but I'm thinking we won't make finals again based on what I've seen & our tough draw (which is a disgrace). Horne-Francis may save us.

 

[bomberclifford]

We need fresh non Port blood imo. Someone with a high standing in the game. Realistically thats probably a retired player who has been an assistant coach. Someone else who will come in & change the culture of mediocrity.

Doesn’t Josh Carr fit this description?

 

[simba_]

that description just fits Ken Hinkley, we don't need another blow-in nobody. if it's going to be an outsider it has to be a Premiership winning senior figure who actually gets our club as well, it's not even good enough if it's a successful person, there's no point if they don't get us. really it has to be the right Admin who get the club who will then pick the right coach.

 

[tribey]

We definitely need to arrest the dangerous flirting with mediocrity. I don't think it necessarily has to be a non-Port, or a Port, person. If Dimma, for example, became available, I'd jump at it.

It’s the hype and praise for so little, or rather, meeting basic expectations.

• “Ken beat Melbourne at the MCG!” (waoooow!)

• “Under Koch we have some pretty good sponsors!” (you’d hope so)

• “Interstate players want to come here/stay now!” (uhhhh, when was this ever not the case?)

 

[TeeKray]

It’s the hype and praise for so little, or rather, meeting basic expectations.

• “Ken beat Melbourne at the MCG!” (waoooow!)

• “Under Koch we have some pretty good sponsors!” (you’d hope so)

• “Interstate players want to come here/stay now!” (uhhhh, when was this ever not the case?)

The most staggering thing is the time that has passed.

I mean, as much as we resent it, we're not the only club to have ever embraced mediocrity. But surely meeting basic and mediocre goals starts to wear thin after maybe 7 or 8 years and it becomes time for a change. But here we are, 11 years later, still clinging to the benchmark of 'we're not completely shit' as a reason to keep everything just as it is.

 

[Port01]

The most staggering thing is the time that has passed.

I have an 11 year old child who has never known anything but Ken as coach. In that context it is a staggering tenure.

 

[JimmyBC]

No one else in elite level sport sticks with a stability model 11 years deep without the ultimate achieved and it would need to be multiple times for most.

This period will probably go down forever in history as a warning to other sporting organisations as to why you can't have suits with little experience in sport driving the ethos.

 

[thundercloud]

The most staggering thing is the time that has passed.

I mean, as much as we resent it, we're not the only club to have ever embraced mediocrity. But surely meeting basic and mediocre goals starts to wear thin after maybe 7 or 8 years and it becomes time for a change. But here we are, 11 years later, still clinging to the benchmark of 'we're not completely s**t' as a reason to keep everything just as it is.

Mediocrity would have been satisfied to remain in the sanfl and win premierships. Striving to be the best in a national competition was not a mediocre decision, but what the club strived for and won the right to. It is this legacy of past effort which we celebrate and embrace every time we take the field in the afl. We are port adelaide and we earnt the right to be playing against all other teams from australia. If you cant understand this you have no understanding of the past and the spirit of the creed and past players and the club.

 

[bow and arrow]

Mediocrity would have been satisfied to remain in the sanfl and win premierships. Striving to be the best in a national competition was not a mediocre decision, but what the club strived for and won the right to. It is this legacy of past effort which we celebrate and embrace every time we take the field in the afl. We are port adelaide and we earnt the right to be playing against all other teams from australia. If you cant understand this you have no understanding of the past and the spirit of the creed and past players and the club.

If you believe this how can you accept and defend what you see and hear every week.

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[tribey]

Mediocrity would have been satisfied to remain in the sanfl and win premierships. Striving to be the best in a national competition was not a mediocre decision, but what the club strived for and won the right to. It is this legacy of past effort which we celebrate and embrace every time we take the field in the afl. We are port adelaide and we earnt the right to be playing against all other teams from australia. If you cant understand this you have no understanding of the past and the spirit of the creed and past players and the club.

You are the unparalleled king of wanton disingenuity.

 

[Launchpad McQuack]

Once were Ports.

 

[dirty2]

Mediocrity would have been satisfied to remain in the sanfl and win premierships. Striving to be the best in a national competition was not a mediocre decision, but what the club strived for and won the right to. It is this legacy of past effort which we celebrate and embrace every time we take the field in the afl. We are port adelaide and we earnt the right to be playing against all other teams from australia. If you cant understand this you have no understanding of the past and the spirit of the creed and past players and the club.

So.. when did you stop striving to be the best? When did you decide that a useless coach is bigger then port Adelaide?

You dribble alot of shit.

Sack Hinkley. Sack thundershit

 

[Enviable Tradition]

So.. when did you stop striving to be the best? When did you decide that a useless coach is bigger then port Adelaide?

You dribble alot of s**t.

Sack Hinkley. Sack thundershit

We stopped, stopped, stopped when we were top, top, top.

2004.

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[PowerLil]

If you cant understand this you have no understanding of the past and the spirit of the creed and past players and the club.

Where in the creed does it say "It's a tough competition and someone has to lose"? Serious question. We didn't make this comment up. It was legitimately said by Ken Hinkley and on more than one occasion. No true Port person can honestly defend that comment yet here we are. If you are not a troll, you are not of right mind and have no understanding of the past and the spirit of the creed and past players and the club.

 

[Lefti93]

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