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Opinion Sack Hinkley 7 - "Turn it around or watch out"
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We learned that there is zero accountability no matter how poor a performance is, so why try?
That we wouldn’t change a thing, and now’s not the time to ask questions.
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Success without premierships > Success with premierships
The problem is - (and perhaps why Tredrea said we are mentally weak) is that we seem to be doing these learnings as a reactionary basis). If we have learnt things over summer ‘like Kenny says he’s seen’ - then year after year we wouldn’t rock up and go missing so easily during games.
It’s the Ken Hinkley trait.
The players need a voice, the club needs a new voice. It’s stale and predictable.
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Yep. That's one of the problems with Kochie stability mantra.
Ken doesn't have 11 years coaching experience.
He has one years coaching experience 11 times
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Meanwhile we'll be sitting back until August, by which time we'll be left holding our 'you-know-what' in our hands.
They’ll conveniently wait until Adelaide, West Coast, and the Dogs have secured their new head coaches before trotting out “Who else are we gonna get?”
Yep, when Koch publicly said he "wants to make Ken a 10 year coach" he was never going to not follow through with it - that would've meant he failed and his ego's too massive for that.
Say what we like about Stinkley, but his enabler - the professional bullshitter, is the real culprit here.
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If only Hinkley and the players had learnt some lessons from the 2021 PF debacle rather than corporate speak "learnings".
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It's gobsmaking that supporters of a club that claims to "exist to win premierships" can actually believe that having a favourable H&A win/loss ratio trumps winning a premiership.
Ken Hinkley - last cardboard cut-out standing.
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Our players have bought in to Ken’s “There’s more to life than football”.
If this is the Hell that Kenny is having to deal with, he should just walk away now, for his own wellbeing...
They are footy’s highwire trapeze artists.
Under the brightest spotlights, the AFL’s senior coaches attempt some of the most difficult balancing acts in the game, and every step is intensely scrutinised high up on the trembling wire.
But what AFL Coaches’ Association chief executive Alistair Nicholson has become increasingly concerned about is the shrinking safety net for the men and women spinning the magnets, the soft cap crisis, and the raging river of worrying feedback he has received from them since the pandemic tipped the game upside down.
Over the past 12 months, the game’s players and top-end administrators have all had their salaries restored to pre-Covid levels, as part of the game’s impressive financial recovery.
But one group has missed out.
And they are arguably some of the most visible and most stressed-out cohort in the game.
Nicholson has spent the past 12 months trying to delve deep into the issues confronting the game’s coaches, assessing support structures, workloads, pressures, salaries and the mechanisms designed to help protect his members when they fall....
Pay cuts, stress levels and ruthless sackings triggering an alarming increase in mental health concerns for AFL coaches
There is a raging river of worrying feedback from coaches since the pandemic turned the AFL upside down. And it has been labelled a wake-up call. See the concerning survey results.They are footy’s highwire trapeze artists.
Under the brightest spotlights, the AFL’s senior coaches attempt some of the most difficult balancing acts in the game, and every step is intensely scrutinised high up on the trembling wire.
But what AFL Coaches’ Association chief executive Alistair Nicholson has become increasingly concerned about is the shrinking safety net for the men and women spinning the magnets, the soft cap crisis, and the raging river of worrying feedback he has received from them since the pandemic tipped the game upside down.
Over the past 12 months, the game’s players and top-end administrators have all had their salaries restored to pre-Covid levels, as part of the game’s impressive financial recovery.
But one group has missed out.
And they are arguably some of the most visible and most stressed-out cohort in the game.
Nicholson has spent the past 12 months trying to delve deep into the issues confronting the game’s coaches, assessing support structures, workloads, pressures, salaries and the mechanisms designed to help protect his members when they fall....
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When someone tells you who they are, believe them.
We have a Chairman who had to be repeatedly told not to refer to the club as “little”.
We have a Head Coach who went on a media tour way back in 2015/16 boasting of how he ‘no longer takes the game as seriously and there are more important things in life’.
We have a Captain who swings from admitting shock at the very concept of being beaten (“thought we were gonna go undefeated” — doorstop after 2021 loss to WCE in Perth), to not being particularly fussed when a premiership window slams shut (“it was good to get a reality check as to where we’re at” — doorstop after 2021 Prelim).
Wishy-washy, partially-engaged, inconsistent, overconfident yet not particularly fussed to self-identify as a minnow, nor lose.
All of those things are reflected in team performance over the years, and the vibe from on high is always, “
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One day we will find out what actually transpired after the 2021 Prelim debacle. It still baffles me when the players and coaches returned to Pre-season training, they were all asked about the review of the prelim and all of them gave different responses and outcomes.
“We haven’t reviewed it yet, but I am sure we will”
“We have looked at it really in-depth”
“We have just touched on it and I am sure we will do more”
“We have all sat down and provided feedback”.
“A few of us have looked at it”.
Players interviewed on the same days providing contradictory responses. If you are going to lie that is fine but they really should have made sure everyone was on the same page…. Unless they truly do believe in the George Costanza model.
“We haven’t reviewed it yet, but I am sure we will”
“We have looked at it really in-depth”
“We have just touched on it and I am sure we will do more”
“We have all sat down and provided feedback”.
“A few of us have looked at it”.
Players interviewed on the same days providing contradictory responses. If you are going to lie that is fine but they really should have made sure everyone was on the same page…. Unless they truly do believe in the George Costanza model.
So quite often in interviews, I'll ask candidates to talk about a time they made a mistake and how they dealt with it. It's a question that gets asked a lot and a lot of people come prepared with an answer that makes them look good, but a) you'd be super surprised how many people basically answer "i don't make mistakes" or b) don't have an answer, even a made up one. The point of asking the question is twofold. To see how prepared the person at the interview is and how they would (even theoretically) handle a mistake. Basically you want them to own it, apologise for it or communicate it, correct it or deal with it and finally learn from it. There are also red flags you are looking for like trying to hide the mistake, or trying to put it on other people. Now, I don't assume just because we haven't done it publicly, that we haven't done it internally, but the proof is in the pudding. Ken's answer is "I wouldn't change a thing" and so far, that holds true. If a candidate said that, they wouldn't get the job.
We r gunna get rolled and I actually can’t wait
I just want to enjoy footy like I used to and be proud to say I am a Port supporter once again.
It's going to be a long season.
It's going to be a long season.
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