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I agree it was caused by mismanagement but that doesn't mean it didn't happen.
All the supporters (well except for a handful of nutjobs) will support Carr. We're just going to be trading in 'Kenny is great, remember 2012!' from the idiots for 'Kenny built the list for Carr and deserves lots of the credit' whenever Josh does well. At least it'll be easier to ignore the latter, without Hinkley still around.
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There seemed to be quite a few Kenny Hinkley Football Club rather than Port supporters posting on here. The fact that a number have stopped posting since their beloved Kenny left suggests that they won't throw their support behind Carr.
Agree, 2013 and 2014 Hinkley was a completely different person. 2015 was the season he started to change beginning with the preseason deckchair coaching.
Yeah,I think there are 2....Ken Hinkley,......and then there was "Kern". I think h the cartoon images of Kern and thought he was someone to emulate, about 3 or 4 years into his stint.
He's close but the Ferrari is actually a clapped out Fiat 500 and the Nissan is a V8 Patrol.
I was one who didn't like how he was just given the job without the club going through a proper process to find the best available. I wanted someone from outside of Hinkleys sphere of influence to reset the clubs culture. These were Valid concerns at the time.
100% agree on everything in that post.
Is be absolutely shocked if there wasn't a box ticking exercise to see who was available externally before the board endorsed Josh for the role.
The promising thing for me is the support they have put in around Josh. Stuart Dew has experienced premiership success at what, 4 clubs? Darren Reeves has coached premiership teams at state league level and has extensive experience through all rungs of the system, Luke Webster maybe more on the periphery of the Eagles' last premiership but someone Josh wanted at the club. Then Ben Rutten in the footy ops role who knows premiership success and what it takes to build a team.
And encouragingly, Josh himself has said this group has already helped shape his thinking about the way he wants Port to play. Which means he lets them talk and he listens.
As the old saying goes, it takes a village to raise a premiership. Or something like that anyway.
The club did do a process. It did the process in 2024, the result of which showed McQualter, Yze and Carr as the top 3 candidates. Club wanted a first time coach instead of experienced. But before the club acted on those results, Yze joined Richmond so there was only two left. Then between Carr and McQualter the club decided Carr was the better option and so held off firing Ken and announced a transition instead.
They're just biding their time waiting for a good chance to say "I told you so"
