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

[edgie]

The Kenny Bowie tattoo is cool

Wouldn't mind to see some ch ch ch ch ch changes around here.

 

[Duck Farmer]

“But but but… there were tarps on the seats!”

Although probably well intentioned, that tarp dude guy needs to be fired into the sun.

 

[edgie]

Remember when Port was like, the only club to not have CGI tarps in 2020?

 

[killtaker1993]

The Girl With the Hinkley Tattoo

 

[Duck Farmer]

We could be zeroes.
Hinkley Dory.
Let's Dunce.

Under (No) Pressure
Superbet City
The Man Whose Fingers Twirled
Teal Beanie (Let Yourself Go)
Disgrace Oddity
Dumbbell Dumbbell
etc.

 

[killtaker1993]

Under (No) Pressure
Superbet City
The Man Whose Fingers Twirled
Teal Beanie (Let Yourself Go)
Disgrace Oddity
Dumbbell Dumbbell
etc.

Kochie, I'm Only Smiling

 

[LittleLika]

Let's sign, put on your ken shoes and dance the blues.....I mean power

 

[PowerLil]

Finals time
Terrifies me
Finals time
Makes me party
Finals time
Put my trust in Koch and Ken.

 

[edgie]

Ashes to Ashes
Funk to funky
This greyhound
Was a flunky

 

[edgie]

Finals time
Terrifies me
Finals time
Makes me party
Finals time
Put my trust in Koch and Ken.

It's not really work
It's just the power to charm
I'm still standing in the wind
But I never wave bye-bye

Didn't even need to change that bit.

 

[Steve Dore]

Say what you like about Hinkley as a coach but at least he is a good human.

Two suspended as Victorian greyhound racing industry investigates live-baiting allegations

 

[Steve Dore]

From Rucci's Darren Mead

Darren Mead

Age

53

Ht

193cm

Wt

98kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

11.5

3star

K

6.9

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HB

4.5

3star

M

3.9

4star

T

1.3

3star

No current season stats available

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12.8

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7.2

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5.6

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Port Adelaide's rise from new entry in the AFL to finalist in just three seasons is a tribute to the club's ambition - and long-established culture that underwrites the "exist to win premierships" theme at Alberton.

I miss that Port Adelaide

 

[El_Scorcho]

There's my big games, lost that's all
Once i'm begging you sack this arseh*le

In all fairness that tattoo was from something like 2014 when even the most rusted on Hinkley hater thought he was the real deal and she's probably the only person I don't blame for being a happy clapper (if she is one) because the alternative is having a cool tattoo of the bane of your existence.

 

[El_Scorcho]

Say what you like about Hinkley as a coach but at least he is a good human.

Two suspended as Victorian greyhound racing industry investigates live-baiting allegations

So proud of the boys for being good humans even ahead of winning so anyway me and the boys were having a chat at the dishlickers and we reckon we theme our finals campaign on one of the 20th century's greatest atrocities.

 

[El_Scorcho]

I've had a delightful individual reply to a tweet I made after the Russell Ebert tribute Hawthorn thrashing (asking for the board to listen to the supporters) with a screenshot about 2023's record membership.

Where do these people get their brain worms?

 

[Launchpad McQuack]

I've had a delightful individual reply to a tweet I made after the Russell Ebert tribute Hawthorn thrashing (asking for the board to listen to the supporters) with a screenshot about 2023's record membership.

Where do these people get their brain worms?

Hinkley's faeces, served weekly from March through August.

 

[El_Scorcho]

“But but but… there were tarps on the seats!”

That one has gone well beyond parody at this point. We had North supporters using that one on us in the JHF threads. North supporters!

 

[rogerjames]

The Kenny Bowie tattoo is cool

You can't put those 2 names together

 

[johnnysix]

Hearing people in the media say "You can't underestimate Ken Hinkley" and similar dribble is NUTS. As Port supporters who watch EVERY GAME when was the last time we legitimately won a game through some coaching masterstroke or injection of motivation? I'm not going to pretend there hasn't been any but if you're going to credit him 'motivation' you also then have to blame him for us coming out flat as a tack in big games. I just don't understand the stranglehold this bloke has on the football media.

 

[tribey]

Hearing people in the media say "You can't underestimate Ken Hinkley" and similar dribble is NUTS. As Port supporters who watch EVERY GAME when was the last time we legitimately won a game through some coaching masterstroke or injection of motivation? I'm not going to pretend there hasn't been any but if you're going to credit him 'motivation' you also then have to blame him for us coming out flat as a tack in big games. I just don't understand the stranglehold this bloke has on the football media.

When’s the last time we went into a final as underdogs and won?

The 2014 Semi vs Freo at Subiaco?

Since then we’ve played 6 finals, and save for the Prelim against Hawthorn, all of them have been played at home as favourites to varying degrees.

0 wins, 1 loss @ MCG
2 wins, 3 losses @ Adelaide Oval

Jeez wouldn’t want to underestimate him!

 

[MrMeaner]

The Age's podcast panel was all emphatic about us having no chance this week and none for the premiership. And yet, none of them mentioned Hinkley as the reason. Just a complete lack of perspective from the Vic media.

 

[malcheski]

The thing that gets me about this angle is, even if Ken was single-handedly responsible for resurrecting the entire club — and we otherwise would’ve floated down the Derwent without his and only his input alone:

It was Hinkley who hopped in a time machine and told Choco to draft Boak/Gray/Westhoff in 2006;

Whispered in Haysman’s ear to bypass the SANFL and blow the whistle long and loud to Andrew Demetriou upon getting his first look at the books in 2008/2009;

It was Hinkley who wheeled and dealed behind the scenes with the SACA, SANFL, AFL, Port, Crows and Rann Government to get the Adelaide Oval move up, and even popped on a hard hat and helped build the new stands with his bare hands, free of charge;

And it was purely Hinkley who personally developed the Wingards, Wines and Jonases into unabashed stars of the competition, if not key pillars of the club for years to come;

Here’s the thing…

IT.
WAS.
TWELVE.
YEARS.
AGO.

Why is Port Adelaide literally the only club expected to remain a life-sentence serving prisoner of gratitude to one man for feats of enchanted magicianation that seemingly only he could procure?

Meanwhile, the media is lining up to tar, feather and trebuchet Luke Beveridge into the Werribee Sewerage Ponds when that maternalfornicator inherited a similar basketcase — surviving chiefly due to millions in white knight donations from the likes of Peter Gordon and Susan Alberti, atop their captain fleeing to Bankstown, and their other gun player escaping to Arden Street — and yet took them to their first premiership since 1954 IN THE SPACE OF TWO SEASONS.

P¡ss off, Bevo. Don’t let the door hitcha, turbo.

And here we are, a ‘lunatic fringe’ for suggesting ‘hey, it’s probably time for a fresh voice’, following eleven seasons of plop that will only require 127 years of historical precedent to be turned on its head in order to be justified.

“But but but… there were tarps on the seats!”

Goodness gracious me.

The beginning of the 2000 season, Collingwood had just finished bottom for only the second time in their history, had record debt totalling $3m and recorded 28,000 members, down from their peak of 32,000.

Their new brash President made moves and brought in 2 time premiership coach Mick Malthouse and in the space of 2 years, had the team playing off in a grand final. In 12 years, the club had added their second AFL Premiership to the trophy cabinet, 6 top 4 finishes and boasted a league record 78,000 members and $69m in revenue.

But you tell them that their benchmark was their 1999/2000 era and they should be happy just to compete with the big boys because at least it aint that bad hey?

 

[tribey]

The beginning of the 2000 season, Collingwood had just finished bottom for only the second time in their history, had record debt totalling $3m and recorded 28,000 members, down from their peak of 32,000.

Their new brash President made moves and brought in 2 time premiership coach Mick Malthouse and in the space of 2 years, had the team playing off in a grand final. In 12 years, the club had added their second AFL Premiership to the trophy cabinet, 6 top 4 finishes and boasted a league record 78,000 members and $69m in revenue.

But you tell them that their benchmark was their 1999/2000 era and they should be happy just to compete with the big boys because at least it aint that bad hey?

And to emphasise just how far they’d fallen by the literal end of the 20th century, they got smashed by arch-rivals Carlton with baby Fev kicking 12 in the ‘Millennium Match’ on New Year’s Eve.



And apart from the odd reference here in this context, who on earth mentions this Pies nadir except for perhaps a Blue Baggers Quiz Night?

But in and around Alberton you can’t so much as question the performance of David Koch and Ken Hinkley without some jamoke referencing the varied misrememberings of a dozen years ago.

Totally normal behaviour for a club Chasing Greatness™.

 

[HighBudget]

With the title of this thread being what it is how ironic is Ollie Wines atomic bomb and Oppenheimer analogy?

 

[pstew2dstew]

Hearing people in the media say "You can't underestimate Ken Hinkley" and similar dribble is NUTS. As Port supporters who watch EVERY GAME when was the last time we legitimately won a game through some coaching masterstroke or injection of motivation?

Hmm I gotta agree.

The only genuine time I could say was that JHF game where he won it in the last qtr for us off his own boot. With Kenny "motivation"