Opinion Sack Hinkley 9 - I Am Become Donuts, Destroyer Of Ports

[finbarr]

Imagine reading what Whatley writes about Ken. Just setting yourself up for hurt feels.

I didn't read it. Someone sent the screenshot to me.

 

[Launchpad McQuack]

I don't hate the club, I just don't have much time for the guys running it at the moment.

if this was the Port Adelaide I grew up with, Hinkley would have been gone at the end of 2017, possibly 2015. When he was extended after those years, the ruthlessness I associated with Port Adelaide was dormant and would remain so under this administration.

This is why I don't understand why people are getting so worked up now. It was evident then what we had become. I'm disappointed, I think we needed change but that they didn't make it comes as no surprise to me so I am not outraged.

I'm emotionally committed to this football club and I will remain as financially committed to the club as always. Let me explain why from my pov.

In a way we are victims of giant corporate behemoth where we are one of the financially smaller players for a range of reasons, including the avaricious sanfl who made us pay twice for our AFL licence and drains us through the SMA.

Financially abandoning the club is about the worst decision anyone can make now because this is what brought us to this place and as Anton Chigurh said in No Country for Old Men, If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was that rule?



Until we become financially strong, we will be beholden to the AFL and decisions we make will be influenced by their control. If that wasn't the case, Hinkley would have been gone at the end of last year and we wouldn't be in this position now. I've said before his timing is impeccable, no club administration was going to sack a coach who could finish in a top 2 position. That was the danger of the time deadline that was set.

So you can rant and cry and say you will pull all your money, but that's only going back to the same rule that brought us to this place. And of what use was that rule?

Funnily enough this appointment will likely see some ruthless decision making off-field in other areas because they are absolutely locked into having to have something to show for this decision. We have the hottest young midfield in the competition, we know we have deficiencies in ruck and tall defender spots, small forward too. Jonas, Lycett and Fantasia are expendable with high salaries, a few fringe players will be gone too. They have to hit up the best ruck and tall defender options they can. They have to look at other off-field positions too. A bed has been made, better make it as comfortable as you can.

We're beholden to the AFL until we're financially strong. We're the little brother in a two team market in the state with the smallest population (with teams annoyed into the AFL). To be financially strong we need success, something we have not and will not have under Hinkley.

How can you have any expectation of ruthlessness when we've done this dance 3 times during the Koch/Hinkley tenure? They just shrug, tell us it's a tough competition and go back about destroying the club. They double down on their proven awful decisions. There is no accountability.

 

[finbarr]

So, he's supposed to have life tenure?

Apparently so.

 

[Black 18]

Especially when the major knock on him is his consistent failure in big finals with the expectation of success heaped on bty the truckload.
I personally wanted him moved on under any circumstance. But even if you're Team Kenny you hold off until you've seen how he performs at the pointy end where he's failed so many times before, at a minimum. This is just completely insane.

Weak decison by a weak Club led by weaker men.

 

[MrMeaner]

Apparently so.

We exist to be a sheltered workshop for Gerard's idols.

 

[Alberton Proud]

Membership emailed me back. Delays in processing requests due to a larger number of requests than normal? Could they be getting bombarded?

Unfortunately this is just the standard 'message received' acknowledgement

Have got every time I emailed previously

Says a lot about staffing levels

 

[JUSTWORK]

Praying the media have it wrong, but I know that’s the denial and desperation speaking.

 

[finbarr]

I don't hate the club, I just don't have much time for the guys running it at the moment.

if this was the Port Adelaide I grew up with, Hinkley would have been gone at the end of 2017, possibly 2015. When he was extended after those years, the ruthlessness I associated with Port Adelaide was dormant and would remain so under this administration.

This is why I don't understand why people are getting so worked up now. It was evident then what we had become. I'm disappointed, I think we needed change but that they didn't make it comes as no surprise to me so I am not outraged.

I'm emotionally committed to this football club and I will remain as financially committed to the club as always. Let me explain why from my pov.

In a way we are victims of giant corporate behemoth where we are one of the financially smaller players for a range of reasons, including the avaricious sanfl who made us pay twice for our AFL licence and drains us through the SMA.

Financially abandoning the club is about the worst decision anyone can make now because this is what brought us to this place and as Anton Chigurh said in No Country for Old Men, If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was that rule?



Until we become financially strong, we will be beholden to the AFL and decisions we make will be influenced by their control. If that wasn't the case, Hinkley would have been gone at the end of last year and we wouldn't be in this position now. I've said before his timing is impeccable, no club administration was going to sack a coach who could finish in a top 2 position. That was the danger of the time deadline that was set.

So you can rant and cry and say you will pull all your money, but that's only going back to the same rule that brought us to this place. And of what use was that rule?

Funnily enough this appointment will likely see some ruthless decision making off-field in other areas because they are absolutely locked into having to have something to show for this decision. We have the hottest young midfield in the competition, we know we have deficiencies in ruck and tall defender spots, small forward too. Jonas, Lycett and Fantasia are expendable with high salaries, a few fringe players will be gone too. They have to hit up the best ruck and tall defender options they can. They have to look at other off-field positions too. A bed has been made, better make it as comfortable as you can.

Sorry Ford, but I'm not going to continue forking out $600 per year for something I've used just once in the past two seasons. Gotta draw the line somewhere.

 

[Launchpad McQuack]

Whilst I'm livid, I'm willing to park the bus on completely losing my s**t until I see how the season pans out. I've always said if he wins a flag fine he can stay 2 more years but anything else he's out. I'll still just smash them on social media for the stupidiest decision known to man, with absolutely no pressure to do it and quite possibly the single biggest mistake in PAFC history but don't want to fire all the shots as you never know the future even if the past points at 100% complete failure coming up.

It's something to be angry about now because it's another incidence of absolute negligence. Winning a premiership from here will be dumb luck. The most likely outcome is not winning. Jesus, Hinkley isn't even confident enough to wait until after he potentially wins a flag to negotiate a new contract with a nice premiership bump in pay.

 

[chachi11]

I guess they didn't take into account that we won games when he was finally kicked out of the box.
FML

 

[TazD]

Where is the girthy "Port Adelaide network" today?

 

[Ford Fairlane]

We're beholden to the AFL until we're financially strong. We're the little brother in a two team market in the state with the smallest population (with teams annoyed into the AFL). To be financially strong we need success, something we have not and will not have under Hinkley.

How can you have any expectation of ruthlessness when we've done this dance 3 times during the Koch/Hinkley tenure? They just shrug, tell us it's a tough competition and go back about destroying the club. They double down on their proven awful decisions. There is no accountability.

I have no expectation of ruthlessness, I thought I explained that at the outset.

And this little brother thing is fast dissipating. The marketplace has evened up as young people choose between two clubs. The old sanfl rivalries are dying.

The club is working to financial independence and it is not all predicated on on-field success. A few years ago we had no million dollar sponsors, now we have three.

Anyway, as I said this was my pov, people will do what they choose to do, as will I.

 

[John the Butcher]

It's just sad at this point, sad our club has been taken over by marshmallows. No longer "ours" and hasn't been for a while.
May as well launch a big bash franchise.

 

[PowerBaz]

I don't hate the club, I just don't have much time for the guys running it at the moment.

if this was the Port Adelaide I grew up with, Hinkley would have been gone at the end of 2017, possibly 2015. When he was extended after those years, the ruthlessness I associated with Port Adelaide was dormant and would remain so under this administration.

This is why I don't understand why people are getting so worked up now. It was evident then what we had become. I'm disappointed, I think we needed change but that they didn't make it comes as no surprise to me so I am not outraged.

I'm emotionally committed to this football club and I will remain as financially committed to the club as always. Let me explain why from my pov.

In a way we are victims of giant corporate behemoth where we are one of the financially smaller players for a range of reasons, including the avaricious sanfl who made us pay twice for our AFL licence and drains us through the SMA.

Financially abandoning the club is about the worst decision anyone can make now because this is what brought us to this place and as Anton Chigurh said in No Country for Old Men, If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was that rule?



Until we become financially strong, we will be beholden to the AFL and decisions we make will be influenced by their control. If that wasn't the case, Hinkley would have been gone at the end of last year and we wouldn't be in this position now. I've said before his timing is impeccable, no club administration was going to sack a coach who could finish in a top 2 position. That was the danger of the time deadline that was set.

So you can rant and cry and say you will pull all your money, but that's only going back to the same rule that brought us to this place. And of what use was that rule?

Funnily enough this appointment will likely see some ruthless decision making off-field in other areas because they are absolutely locked into having to have something to show for this decision. We have the hottest young midfield in the competition, we know we have deficiencies in ruck and tall defender spots, small forward too. Jonas, Lycett and Fantasia are expendable with high salaries, a few fringe players will be gone too. They have to hit up the best ruck and tall defender options they can. They have to look at other off-field positions too. A bed has been made, better make it as comfortable as you can.

Kochie, Ken and Davies will all be in different places in a couple of years.

They are very much wanting a ROI, this is definitely the last roll of the dice, giving their ego's one last massage....

 

[StrappingTape]

It's something to be angry about now because it's another incidence of absolute negligence. Winning a premiership from here will be dumb luck. The most likely outcome is not winning. Jesus, Hinkley isn't even confident enough to wait until after he potentially wins a flag to negotiate a new contract with a nice premiership bump in pay.

To be fair, if I were him I'd be pushing for exactly the same thing. It's 100% not his fault to get what he wants.

 

[JUSTWORK]

I guess they didn't take into account that we won games when he was finally kicked out of the box.
FML

That’s it, it’s totally illogical. Our improvement came when he was kicked out of the coaches box.

How does the Board go from kicking him out of the coaches box, to giving him a 2 year extension.

 

[dav3]

Yea uh, being a Ken Hinkley lover and a Bay 13 poster actually makes you a moron, and not the smartest person in the room.

Hiding in an echo chamber bleating doesn't exactly make you an expert

Also not sure how many more times I can say it......... I disagreed with the extension a couple of years ago, I don't necessarily agree with this one (but I can see why being a solid top two chance), I'm just here for the melts from the same morons who demanded that Wines/SPP/Boak should be traded, that Jarrad Redden and Daniel Bass were future ruck stars, that John Butcher was cruelly denied becoming the next Tony Lockett because we kept dropping him, etc.

 

[Smartys Power]

Just put us out of our misery and announce the ****ing thing.

 

[finbarr]

Sqidjags would be rolling in his grave.

 

[Alberton Proud]

North is debt free, St Kilda are producing positive financial results to pay down their debt. Gold Coast and GWS are the AFL's toys.

None of those clubs is continually drained by a parasitic entity.

We are strengthening our financial position but we're not there yet. And if people walk away from the club we won't get there.

At the end of the day you do what you choose to do.

Sorry Ford
But they deserve to hurt

 

[Schulzenfest]

Sorry Ford, but I'm not going to continue forking out $600 per year for something I've used just once in the past two seasons. Gotta draw the line somewhere.

Yep. I'm not withdrawing my membership to 'send a message', I'm just withdrawing it because I don't want it anymore.

 

[Jojay]

Lol Whateley reckons kern "aced the exam". He didn't even have to sit the exam

 

[finbarr]

Yep. I'm not withdrawing my membership to 'send a message', I'm just withdrawing it because I don't want it anymore.

I'll bet there's a price hike in the wings this year too.

 

[MrPlow]

The deal was clearly done a month ago. You don’t just draft up and sign legal documents worth over $1 mill in two weeks.

It’s why the team had the sudden drop off/Ken was seen nonchalant after losses. He was safe.

 

[manureid]

The deal was clearly done a month ago. You don’t just draft up and sign legal documents worth over $1 mill in two weeks.

It’s why the team had the sudden drop off/Ken was seen nonchalant after losses. He was safe.

Exactly. Giggling like a little fanboi over Dangerfield after another loss it was pretty clear he had nothing to worry about.