Unofficial Preview Sack Hinkley

[Arsene Wenger]

I reckon 11 wins gets you in. Dogs have a super tough run. I legit think its down to Port Crows and Saints for 8th.

 

[Chewy316]

I don't see us winning our remaining 4 games, which is what it would take for us to play finals. These players will check out soon if they haven't already.

I think 3 wins gets us in to the 8. The crows have horrible form right now, whilst the run home for the dogs, hawthorn and st kilda is also difficult. 11 wins with a healthy percentage probably gets us in.

That being said I don't see us winning 3 of our final 4 games. 2 wins max. Not that I think it will matter anyway. Even if we scrape in to the 8 we will be found out and subsequently Ken will leave shortly thereafter, if not already.

 

[chachi11]

I don't see us winning our remaining 4 games, which is what it would take for us to play finals. These players will check out soon if they haven't already.

Even if we lose to Essendon we can still make it, Crows are flaky as shit.
Scary.

 

[Enviable Tradition]

Koch sounded as if ‘end of season’ is now defined as ‘date on which we decide we can’t make finals’.

Perhaps it is date at which Ken has officially missed his contract trigger?

 

[Magus]

Ok well that sucks.

 

[finbarr]

My ladder predictor had the crows in 8th a game ahead of us. I think they’ll win both their home games, and I factored in us winning both our home games. But I can also see us losing all 4.

 

[gbear]

St Kilda sacked their coach a month ago and are equal on points with us this season.

We are not a good team at present Koch

 

[TeeKray]

We aren't a good club and haven't been anything close to being one for about 15 years now.

 

[HighBudget]

My brother was in the Port rooms after the Brisbane loss and he reckons that Koch was pretty pissed off in there, he wasn’t really interacting with anyone and Ken was nowhere to be seen. Koch ended up leaving earlier then every one else

 

[Marmozet]

My ladder predictor has us 8th with 11 wins. But that's assuming the Crows only win 1 of their last 4 and the Bulldogs only win 2, and us winning our last 3.

 

[gbear]

6,000 more turned up to the Sunday twilight 2 weeks before.

And half of them left at half time.

 

[70sDinosaur]

I think St Kilda are the dark horse for the eight now.

If they can knock off Adelaide this week, they have a good chance to win the last 3 after that and get to 12 wins.

I can't see Adelaide getting more than 10 wins - they'll probably lose their last 3 games.

Bulldogs have a tough draw so will struggle to get to 11 wins, as will Hawthorn.

Port will lose this week and fall to 8-11 but could still get to 11 wins as the last 3 games are all winnable. Mind you, we haven't won 3 in a row all season.

For those who want us to miss the eight, I reckon it's better to hope for a St Kilda win over Adelaide than vice versa.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Koch has fired from the hip before and let slip how he truly feels.

For what it's worth, I 100% supported his comments after the west coast EF loss. This upset Boak etc. just proved how ****ing soft our group is.

Since then he's clearly been told to reign the public blasting of our coach/players in. I don't think its a secret he's not a fan of Ken. He trusted KT that re-signing Ken was the right thing to do - and that's what you do. You trust your CE to get the job done.

I reckon he's privately boiling because the club isn't performing and it's making him look silly. I think the thing that is holding this up is that Koch knows if Ken goes, KT does too and that's the thing he's struggling with.

 

[finbarr]

My ladder predictor has us 8th with 11 wins. But that's assuming the Crows only win 1 of their last 4 and the Bulldogs only win 2, and us winning our last 3.

Even being as generous as possible I can’t see us winning a meat tray raffle at Docklands.

 

[The Rubber Man]

Koch has fired from the hip before and let slip how he truly feels.

For what it's worth, I 100% supported his comments after the west coast EF loss. This upset Boak etc. just proved how ******* soft our group is.

Since then he's clearly been told to reign the public blasting of our coach/players in. I don't think its a secret he's not a fan of Ken. He trusted KT that re-signing Ken was the right thing to do - and that's what you do. You trust your CE to get the job done.

I reckon he's privately boiling because the club isn't performing and it's making him look silly. I think the thing that is holding this up is that Koch knows if Ken goes, KT does too and that's the thing he's struggling with.

100%
There were heaps of articles (mainly by Caro) about a rift between koch, coach and the players due to his comments. Since then he has toed the company line.

I like koch, people just have to realise why he says certain things recently.

 

[PortWTF]

Since Round 12
2 wins 5 losses - equal 2nd bottom
455 points for - 2nd bottom, ahead of Fremantle by 7 points

At about the same time last year Marc Mclure was the only media person to really call out Hinkley and Port saying we couldn't score. 1 year later and nothing has changed. Wouldn't have anything to do with not playing forwards in a forward line would it?

 

[Zakk Wylde]

Imagine coaching 2 x AA Chad Wingard out of your football club. Imagine your paid 700k a year to manage footballers and you did it so badly that you had to expel one of the best young talents in the league.

I'm on the GTFO Kern train as much as anyone but I need to tidy this up.

Ken didn't coach him out of the club, nor did he want Chad to go.

 

[Portwon]

So we wait until it us mathematically impossible to make the eight which given evidence of the last few years for this semi corrupt league will be the last round... when we miss out.... heartbreakingly again.

Meanwhile another summer of our best was good enough and we wasted opportunities while another team that timed it's run well has its fairytale.

Just like last year and the year before and the year before and....

 

[agmsy]

If the 04 premiership team was in a burning building and Hinkley was in another, Kane would save Hinkley

Did he spend long enough playing at being a fire fighter to learn how to save anyone?

 

[afl2004]

Did he spend long enough playing at being a fire fighter to learn how to save anyone?

Just 1 person , which is all he needs

 

[Powerade 08]

This first year finals trigger has been made up on BigFooty and makes less than zero sense. It is either next year or stretched over both years.

If we get rid of him now, we are not giving him the opportunity to meet that KPI and get his extra year. How that works legally, not sure.

Koch comments read as if clown man is out the door, but we are waiting for finals so that the media is distracted and less heat comes to the board for their major **** up.

 

[Rendaw]

I think the most ironic thing is that if the club actually wanted to make finals then a new coach's honeymoon period is the best way to achieve it.

 

[1954]

I would like to see a body language experts take on kern and voss looking chuffed after that BS loss to the gigantics.

I suspect it may be along the lines of it being about two blokes who know they have financial security regardless of how much they suck at their job.

 

[finbarr]

This first year finals trigger has been made up on BigFooty and makes less than zero sense.

Except Warren Tredrea was also talking about it on Saturday after the game. Or is he now in the business of taking Big Footy scuttlebutt to the airwaves?...

 

[AdamMarrett]

This first year finals trigger has been made up on BigFooty and makes less than zero sense. It is either next year or stretched over both years.

If we get rid of him now, we are not giving him the opportunity to meet that KPI and get his extra year. How that works legally, not sure.

Koch comments read as if clown man is out the door, but we are waiting for finals so that the media is distracted and less heat comes to the board for their major fu** up.

It works legally.....Ken just gets a pay out likely on his remaining contract. We don't have to go to court to sack him or anything of that ilk. Ken is no different to any other coach sacked that you see happen in other clubs, sports etc