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

[HighBudget]

You all thought Ken was a superhero at 1-0

Literally no one thought that

 

[TazD]

Literally no one thought that

Literally a joke

 

[HighBudget]

Literally a joke

I’m not laughing

 

[JimmyBC]

I want us to lose next week so Nicks will be under more pressure, but I will only be happy if we win so that Hinkley will be sacked

What sort of tunes do ya reckon Nicksy likes? bit of a Slade flog?

 

[TazD]

So Bulldogs, West Coast, and Adelaide are likely to be in the market for a new coach. I guess we'll be last in line.

 

[Doctor Feel]

What sort of tunes do ya reckon Nicksy likes? bit of a Slade flog?

Red Hot Chili Peppers

 

[Chewy316]

What baffles me is how blatantly evident it is as to how soft Hinkley has become. This isn't something that has happened just over this off season, but rather this has been a trend for the better part of 5 years.

Look at the best coaches in the league of the last 20 years. Sheedy - psychopath. Matthews - psychopath. Clarkson - psychopath. The best coaches are the ones who literally put the team ahead of literally everything else in their life, are demanding of the players to do the same and are completely unapologetic in their approach regardless of who may get out offside.

It's not just AFL either - can pretty much apply it to every professional sport. Yet Hinkley's approach has been one that you would expect at an amateur country team. "Don't worry about the score lads just have a good time and we'll have a few bets on the doggies post match."

There will be a next head coach. Hinkley is on borrowed time, and the next man up for the job has to be an unapologetic head kicker. There is so much young talent on this team such that any coach who is content with just being there for the ride will permeate that mentality to these players and it will be a potential golden generation of talent wasted as us fans merely ponder "what if?"

 

[Doctor Feel]

So Bulldogs, West Coast, and Adelaide are likely to be in the market for a new coach. I guess we'll be last in line.

Weve had so many opportunities to look for a coach when there wasnt a logjam, and yet again we are going to **** it up. Costing us another ****ing 3-5 years minimum.

Its gonna be Josh Carr and it'll be sold as the best candidate.

 

[afl2004]

Premiership coaches were players who made up for a lack of talent with a desire to never lose and prepare to the enth degree to cover there deficiencies

Hinkley was a me me me player who relied on skill and got lazy when shit went sideways

 

[finbarr]

What baffles me is how blatantly evident it is as to how soft Hinkley has become. This isn't something that has happened just over this off season, but rather this has been a trend for the better part of 5 years.

Go take a walk through any SA public service building. It's full of Ken Hinkley's. The type of person who has become very comfortable with tenure, and routinely kicks every can down the road because they're not really expected to actually do anything from the people above them. Ken Hinkley is taking the piss at this point.

 

[PAFC66]

Weve had so many opportunities to look for a coach when there wasnt a logjam, and yet again we are going to * it up. Costing us another ******* 3-5 years minimum.

Its gonna be Josh Carr and it'll be sold as the best candidate.

We can't afford anything else. I hope it's not Carr.

 

[1954]

What baffles me is how blatantly evident it is as to how soft Hinkley has become. This isn't something that has happened just over this off season, but rather this has been a trend for the better part of 5 years.

Look at the best coaches in the league of the last 20 years. Sheedy - psychopath. Matthews - psychopath. Clarkson - psychopath. The best coaches are the ones who literally put the team ahead of literally everything else in their life, are demanding of the players to do the same and are completely unapologetic in their approach regardless of who may get out offside.

It's not just AFL either - can pretty much apply it to every professional sport. Yet Hinkley's approach has been one that you would expect at an amateur country team. "Don't worry about the score lads just have a good time and we'll have a few bets on the doggies post match."

There will be a next head coach. Hinkley is on borrowed time, and the next man up for the job has to be an unapologetic head kicker. There is so much young talent on this team such that any coach who is content with just being there for the ride will permeate that mentality to these players and it will be a potential golden generation of talent wasted as us fans merely ponder "what if?"

I hope who ever our new coach is he will be an `unapologetic head kicker ' type, but have concerns he would be ultimately detuned to suit kokhead's humble little old blue collar club from Alberton narrative, ala what ever happened to the original kern, who regardless of his technical shortcomings at least showed some emotion in his early days at Alberton.

He even made mention on fox the other night about needing to be careful about his behaviour in the box, and it wouldn't surprise me greatly if his adherence to a `behaviour' clause had a fair bit to do with his contract extension(s).

Us long suffering supporters may never know, but if one day kern decides to write a book about his time at Alberton it could make for very interesting reading.

 

[AdamMarrett]

There was a time when Clarkson & Ross Lyon were both on the market and wanting to coach again......David Koch knew this and decided to keep Hinkley for this season.......you couldn't make it up.

 

[killtaker1993]

What sort of tunes do ya reckon Nicksy likes? bit of a Slade flog?

I suspect he likes crap like Coldplay, Mumford and Sons and Muse - soulless fruity shite

 

[Del165198]

I suspect he likes crap like Coldplay, Mumford and Sons and Muse - soulless fruity shite

he probably likes a bit of killswitch engage does big nicksy

 

[gbear]

After that performance wtf does he still have a job

 

[Ljc_86]

Sitting with some port and crows mates. We are all fighting over who we want to win next week as we all want our own coaches sacked.

What a time.

I still want to smash the crows fyi

 

[Ilias M]

“Wouldn’t change a thing”

— Ken Hinkley

“It was still a successful year in terms of win/loss”

— Ollie Wines

“It was good to get a reality check on mindset and where we need to be”

— Tom Jonas

“[supporter criticism of Ken Hinkley] is stupid”

— Charlie Dixon

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Charlie Dixon

Age

34

Ht

200cm

Wt

110kg

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Fwd

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D

11.7

3star

K

6.9

3star

HB

4.7

3star

M

4.0

4star

T

2.2

4star

G

1.6

5star

D

10.5

3star

K

7.0

3star

HB

3.5

2star

M

5.0

5star

T

1.5

2star

G

2.5

5star

D

8.2

2star

K

4.4

2star

HB

3.8

3star

M

2.0

3star

T

1.8

4star

G

0.8

4star

Meanwhile Jonas post game interview epic failure as the coach

 

[PAFC66]

Hinkley press conference was more comedy gold

He sounded like they just lost a practice game..

Just the same old shit.........

Not even a inkling of disgust with the effort. Just deflecting blame again and again...

Honestly the guy sounds medicated.

 

[PAFC66]

I suspect he likes crap like Coldplay, Mumford and Sons and Muse - soulless fruity shite

He was at the Ed Sheeran concert. Says enough.

 

[PAFC66]

There was a time when Clarkson & Ross Lyon were both on the market and wanting to coach again......David Koch knew this and decided to keep Hinkley for this season.......you couldn't make it up.

We couldn't afford them

 

[HighBudget]

“Wouldn’t change a thing”

— Ken Hinkley

“It was still a successful year in terms of win/loss”

— Ollie Wines

“It was good to get a reality check on mindset and where we need to be”

— Tom Jonas

“[supporter criticism of Ken Hinkley] is stupid”

— Charlie Dixon

Meanwhile Jonas post game interview epic failure as the coachView attachment 1639602

Maybe they should do the ol ‘trust fall’ into each others arms during training sessions, maybe before matches too

 

[tribey]

Hinkley hasn’t been able to beat Freo away since the 2014 Semi.

And he’s taken some excellent teams over to Perth against some absolute junk Dockers squads in that time.

Clarko takes over a ragtag rebuilding lowest ebb North, and gets it done at the first attempt lol.

 

[hammo24]

Collingwood, North, Carlton and saints are exact reasons why coaches need to be changed yet we haven’t made a change in 10 years.

**** OFF KEN and KOCH grow some balls!

note: JONAS YOU ARE A SPUD AS CAPTAIN

 

[tribey]

We couldn't afford them

The club took in $57,100,000 in revenue last year.

The popular myth that we’re held together with food stamps and recycled twine is convenient for Koch and his cronies to hide behind when they feel like it.

North and St Kilda are the two poorest clubs in the comp and they managed it.