Opinion Sack Hinkley 8 - "Ask me in August"

[TeeKray]

I feel sorry for people who are still emotionally invested in this club being successful. Just enjoy the community of following a footy club and embrace the character building opportunity of supporting a hopeless cause. Winning premierships is the past not the future of this club.

 

[JohnHinckleyJr]

Only 5 losses, but the average margin is 40.2 points.

-71, -31, -50, -2, -47

The median is 50 points. Our loss to Collingwood, so far, has been an outlier.

The wins:

+54, +2, +14, +40, +7, +5, +70, +4, +10, +55, +22, +38, +4, +33

Avg.: 25.6pts
Med.: 18pts

It doesn’t look that great either…

Very Collingwood 2022

 

[Sheeds]

The week of the Collingwood game I went along to a function where Travis Boak

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Travis Boak

Age

36

Ht

183cm

Wt

86kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

23.7

5star

K

11.6

4star

HB

12.0

5star

M

3.7

4star

T

4.4

5star

CL

4.6

5star

D

22.0

5star

K

11.0

4star

HB

11.0

5star

M

2.4

3star

T

4.4

5star

CL

4.9

5star

D

16.4

4star

K

7.4

3star

HB

9.0

5star

M

5.4

5star

T

2.4

4star

and Connor Rozee

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Connor Rozee

Age

25

Ht

185cm

Wt

79kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

14.6

4star

K

7.6

3star

HB

7.0

4star

M

3.3

3star

T

3.6

5star

CL

1.0

3star

D

12.8

3star

K

7.4

3star

HB

5.3

3star

M

2.9

3star

T

2.4

3star

CL

1.6

4star

D

16.4

4star

K

8.0

3star

HB

8.4

5star

M

4.2

4star

T

3.4

5star

CL

0.8

3star

were the guests. Obviously nothing was going to officially be confirmed but I just got the impression from the way they spoke then the Hinkley contract was as good as done, but I do hope the club has the professionalism and competency to see how the season plays out.

They all seem very comfortable in the environment and I don't think the players like the idea of another coach or anyone really challenging them or changing the current environment they have in place.

A lot of the conversation from Boak and Rozee was around the need for them to be good humans first and foremost and the connection and relationships within the club is the most important thing that underpin everything they do etc. Football is not the be all and end all and there is so much more to life etc.

It was all very lovely to hear how well everyone gets on and is "connected" Sounds like a great Social Club. As a fan and member who spends $1000s of dollars I'd like to see them get connected to winning a Premiership if that wasn't too much an inconvenience.

 

[Alberton Proud]

• Extend Hinkley too early
• Fall agonisingly short again (maybe in a GF this time instead of another PF because why not?)
• Lose Josh Carr
• Get Grundy, Ratugolea etc. and have “missing piece” memes on social media running rampant.
• Be flag favourites for 2024
• Finish 10th
• Remain stuck with Hinkley

 

[philreich]

Ken has been given a two year contract extension with a trigger for a third(unsure of what KPI exactly). Will be announced Monday or Tuesday after Geelong game if Port win. The club know a win all but secures a top 4 spot.

There is no talks or planned succession plan.

The fact that this is this poster's first post, and it was posted around 3am, leads me to believe that the poster is a Crows troll.

 

[Alberton Proud]

Ken has been given a two year contract extension with a trigger for a third(unsure of what KPI exactly). Will be announced Monday or Tuesday after Geelong game if Port win. The club know a win all but secures a top 4 spot.

There is no talks or planned succession plan.

Fair first post there

 

[thundercloud]

I feel sorry for people who are still emotionally invested in this club being successful. Just enjoy the community of following a footy club and embrace the character building opportunity of supporting a hopeless cause. Winning premierships is the past not the future of this club.

Hello, is that your membership resignation official release. You beauty can relax now in a blissful calm of investing emotionally in a hopeless cause and not be annoyed by disparate messaging. Happy days!

 

[chachi11]

The fact that this is this poster's first post, and it was posted around 3am, leads me to believe that the poster is a Crows troll.

Could be...but sounds exactly what we're all thinking will happen.

 

[Papa G]

The week of the Collingwood game I went along to a function where Travis Boak and Connor Rozee were the guests. Obviously nothing was going to officially be confirmed but I just got the impression from the way they spoke then the Hinkley contract was as good as done, but I do hope the club has the professionalism and competency to see how the season plays out.

They all seem very comfortable in the environment and I don't think the players like the idea of another coach or anyone really challenging them or changing the current environment they have in place.

A lot of the conversation from Boak and Rozee was around the need for them to be good humans first and foremost and the connection and relationships within the club is the most important thing that underpin everything they do etc. Football is not the be all and end all and there is so much more to life etc.

It was all very lovely to hear how well everyone gets on and is "connected" Sounds like a great Social Club. As a fan and member who spends $1000s of dollars I'd like to see them get connected to winning a Premiership if that wasn't too much an inconvenience.

Travis Boak needs to be Extricated from the Club as much as Hinkley!

 

[JimmyBC]

Hello, is that your membership resignation official release. You beauty can relax now in a blissful calm of investing emotionally in a hopeless cause and not be annoyed by disparate messaging. Happy days!

If it was Happy Days you are definitely Potsie.

 

[theouthouse]

I really love the feeling of connectedness playing in a winning grand final brings to a group.

Unbreakable bond.

 

[Nelso]

A lot of the conversation from Boak and Rozee was around the need for them to be good humans first and foremost and the connection and relationships within the club is the most important thing that underpin everything they do etc. Football is not the be all and end all and there is so much more to life etc.

 

[Pt Augusta Power]

So could it be that the lads love for casual Kenny and his mediocre approach - spurred them on to play 13 amazing weeks to save casual Kenny? Now he’s saved - it’s back to greyhounds, golf and fishing again?

 

[Doctor Feel]

lol what a meme of a football club. I'm just gonna stick around on the forums for the deprecation and lols when they do stupid shit like a macabre comedy. I've started feeling active joy when we get belted, how did it come to this.

 

[El_Scorcho]

lol what a meme of a football club. I'm just gonna stick around on the forums for the deprecation and lols when they do stupid s**t like a macabre comedy. I've started feeling active joy when we get belted, how did it come to this.

I had zero concern at losing that showdown. We're long past individual wins or losses mattering with this absolute joke of a football club.

 

[hOUTkley]

I really love the feeling of connectedness playing in a winning grand final brings to a group.

Unbreakable bond.

Those connectedness reunions are going to be elite though...

 

[PortPortPort]

A lot of the conversation from Boak and Rozee was around the need for them to be good humans first and foremost and the connection and relationships within the club is the most important thing that underpin everything they do etc. Football is not the be all and end all and there is so much more to life etc.

What is the deal with the whole good human being shtick? Isn't that what their parents teach them to be, not a coach of a football club.

Are they implying that all other footballers that didn't play under hinkley aren't good human beings? It's a cult.

 

[Alberton Proud]

Ken is a gambler right, he raves greyhounds, he gambles.

The way he just keeps coming back to the table after losing reminds me of a gambler, ‘we will win the flag next year if we just had a ruckman and back man’…. ‘We are so close, just one more chance’…

Kochie is the enabler… more worried about what we can lose if we change rather than what we could gain.

 

[Alberton Proud]

Hello, is that your membership resignation official release. You beauty can relax now in a blissful calm of investing emotionally in a hopeless cause and not be annoyed by disparate messaging. Happy days!

You're a dick head mate

 

[JayPea14]

I had zero concern at losing that showdown. We're long past individual wins or losses mattering with this absolute joke of a football club.

I didn't care of the result other than the fact that we are more than likely stuck with Ken and getting pantsed won't make an iota of a difference

 

[Lagooner]

lol what a meme of a football club. I'm just gonna stick around on the forums for the deprecation and lols when they do stupid s**t like a macabre comedy. I've started feeling active joy when we get belted, how did it come to this.

I’ve gone from flying to farken China to watch us play to not even attending a single game for over a year now. Having two young kids is a factor but it’s certainly not the primary one.

 

[longdonkey]

I think there is a bit of jumping at shadows here because:

1. If Hinkley was reappointed at the bye Koch has lied to the club, the media, the supporters and the sponsors. If he has come forward to any of those groups and said that this has happened then we'd know about it.

2. If he has done that as far as I'm concerned Koch's position is completely untenable and the needs to be moved on because he has lied to everyone and taken it upon himself to re-sign Hinkley without waiting for the time that he himself put on record multiple times.

I don't believe he's got the guts to do it. He's got the arrogance to think he'll get away with but at the end of the day if this has happened its time for us to metaphorically burn the place down and resist.

Its the old, Do it once stupid them, do it twice stupid us, what is do it thrice?

This has got to be Stickerman x 1000

 

[Papa G]

People that need to be gone from the Club ASAP to let it refresh:
Hinkley
Koch
Richardson
Cardone
Ransome
Boak
Dixon
Jonas

Every single one of these people, even if they were useful at some point, have well and truly gone past their use by date. A massive broom needs to go through Alberton. The Near enough is good enough, making our Community Proud, Good Human, Facebook Meme, Happy Clapping Shit Needs to GTFO!

 

[Cheesey Mac]

I get the concern and frustration at the potential extension of this absolute loser. And there is no doubt that those running the club could be stupid enough to do it before the finals and they actually have an opportunity to see if Ken can get beyond his high water mark and make a GF.

But until it is actually announced by the club then I'm willing to hold off from jumping off a bridge over it. The reality is that this topic is fertile ground for AFL talking heads of all colours, from your sycophants in the form of your Whateley's and Kornes, to your morons like Kym Dillon, and no matter what they say there's a story in it. Caroline Wilson in the space of 12 months went from "Ken is gone" to "he'll be there for two more years", Kane Cornes went from "he's signed up" to "it's only a verbal deal" in the space of 12 days... They're just doing it to drive clicks and it drive outrage, and most of the time they're just guessing...

The guy should've been sacked on Monday (and on most of the the previous 300 odd Mondays), but until something is officially announced either way I wouldn't believe as truth anything put out by the AFL media talking heads or the local butcher.

 

[TazD]

GWS looking like a good ship to jump to. Or maybe I just go full scum and support one the big 4 vic clubs.