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Opinion Sack Hinkley 7 - "Turn it around or watch out"
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This is it. I can't see what metrics lead to ken getting an extension beyond next year apart from a premiership.
He's already the longest serving single club coach to not make a GF and he'll probably be the longest serving full stop by the end of next year. There is no precedent for a guy being so poor/average as a head coach as long as him.
My job wouldn't keep people in an equivalent position for 10 years, certainly not without repeated high level success.
Every criticism of ken has been the same since 2015, teams that can't perform under expectation, reliance on individual brilliance rather than a defined team structure, bizarre selection of players not to AFL standard in preference to development of young talent, shoehorning undersized midfielders into the pressure forward role etc. He's not fixing these things, it's the same failings over and over.
Surely he knows he's pushing uphill to extend his coaching career at Port. Everything we've seen of ken over the past 10 years shows he doesn't cope with pressure or criticism and I don't know how he goes another year with that hanging over him from day 1. It has to be about the money for him or he'd walk himself.
Most likely he reaches a point mid season where he'll get his full salary regardless and quits to be a fireman or an astronaut. The club is then left with its pants down scrambling to adjust the coaching group to cover the back end of the season.
I know the transitioning coach role is BS and hasn't really worked but at this point we pretty much need to hire our next head coach, sit ken at the back of the box and let him know that he's not coming back in 2024 to minimise the damage and have some momentum coming out of 2023
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I hate him.
Ken would be to scared to take the Tigers on, their bar is set way to high.
Looks pretty smug tbh
God just the sight of him makes me sick now.
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If Ken is dead man walking Port are dead club walking next year. The media, supporters will be all over it from the practice matches.
It’s almost like it’s just easier to travel the path of least resistance.
It’s almost like it’s just easier to travel the path of least resistance.
In the same way it's not Jed's fault he gets picked every week, it isn't Ken's fault he hasn't been fired.
It's entirely down to our board, controlled by a man who hosts a TV show with someone in a cow costume.
It's time.
It's entirely down to our board, controlled by a man who hosts a TV show with someone in a cow costume.
It's time.
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What's the chance Rutten will get picked up by us when he inevitably leaves / gets sacked ?
Ken's happy with it IMO. He knows he's not getting a job elsewhere, but also Koch was dumb enough to give him an unwarranted extension due to GC in 2017. He / his manager would be using these as 'Ken's getting asked, but keeps saying no as he's here for 2023. Once 2023 rolls around though ...'. Hoping Koch is still here and ready to panic extend Ken again.
I think at this point, deep down, even Koch knows Ken is highly unlikely to make it, but he doesn't want to get rid of him and admit he backed the wrong
IMO, part of this comes from how the AFL terms every coach that hasn't come out themselves, that they don't want to coach anymore, as being sacked. Whether it's truly sacked, as in still time to run on their contract or not offered a new contract. The AFL media loves to conflate the two for clickbait, but they aren't the same. We're not going to get the true pleasure of Ken being sacked. It'll be at some point (hopefully end of 2023) going into the sunset, weighed down by his money bags, Koch blowing smoke up his arse one last time.
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Just watching this bloke speak, getting so envious of North. So calm, controlled, experienced, polished, professional.
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GWS not making a play for ken,with Geelong people at the club tells you exactly what they think of ken as a coach
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That wasn’t as good as I imagined.
No, it doesn't take much to turn things around. Imagine what we could do with a new coach.
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