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If he wins a flag this year, he'll still be comfortably the worst 250 game coach (at one club) of all time. He will not be king. He'll be dead last

I think what we did from 2016 onwards was in response to the 2015 season, so I think it's a fair line to draw. In 2015 we were just playing our 2014 gameplan but we entered the season as the premiership favourites so everyone had forensically studied what we were doing to counter it. The lower...

That's come around quick! Gun.

I'd love to see this stat yearly for the past decade. It feels like something we've always been bad at under Hinkley, because seeing out quarters is about mental application.

I don't give a s**t who our next coach is as long as it's not Hinkley. Bring Primus back, I don't give a *. What's James Hird doing? Mark Neeld was mostly just unlucky. Neil Craig(?). This is the best part about speaking to the "who are ya gonna get?" crowd. The bar is so low that i'd take...

Where do you get your stats? According to Wheeloratings, we have the 2nd least amount of defensive 1v1 contests, but we have the 3rd lowest % of loss in those contests. That suggests our defenders are generally doing a pretty good job as a team and when they do have to win or nullify a contest...

Players stick their hands out and use their arms to prevent heavy impact at every other contest in every game. We can't eliminate head knocks, but we can eliminate the most common action that leads to them, which is someone charging too hard into a contest and losing control. Players are...

Who on earth would take him? I don't care if he's West Coast Judd and we get him for free, no thanks.

Yep, we'll win easily and certain media identities will try to use it as evidence that we're on track and being well coached.

Yep. If it had been a teammate instead of an opponent, Greene would have found a way to avoid bumping him to the head. They just need to apply the same care to their opponents.

His observations are probably bang on but his conclusions are way off. The coach is responsible for fostering a good culture.

This is just what happens when the coach has lost the players. It's been going on for 5-7 years. They might "love Kenny" but they don't respect him as a coach or have any faith in him. After 12 years, it's insane to blame something like this on the playing group. This is just the players...

We're gonna win comfortably and people are gonna say that we're "back" as if we were ever there in the first place. Beat St Kilda by 3 goals "Koch Vindicated for Extending Hinkley" type headlines incoming.

Yep, fully agree. They have no issue with the physical stuff. We hold tackles just fine most weeks. We're just mentally weak under Hinkley and s**t the bed on a regular basis. The midfielders aren't immune to that.

Absolutely disgraceful selfish footy from Rioli there. Burns a teammate running into an open goal to try an outside of the boot dribbler

How the * does that free kick get brought back? Downfield every day.

He's been in football for a long time and he knows that sometimes it doesn't go your way and we just had to work harder for longer.

Unbelievable missed free, a classic Ben Rutten handshake and nothing, commentators obviously not watching either.

Who could have predicted a Port Adelaide side in total control going completely to water mentally. "It's not the coach it's the players who collectively switch off in big games every time"

This doesn't even move the needle in terms of egregious cash in merch, it's fine, literally every sports team in the world does stuff like this.

It has to be balanced out though with the need for cities to be living breathing places that are responsive to the needs of living residents. It's very rare that a building of genuinely significant heritage value is destroyed (which I acknowledge means something different to everyone). Look at...

What kind of question is this?

He could have spent 10 minutes expressing his frustration with being suspended and none of us would even know or care about it if he framed it the right way.

Oh yeah, we should keep our coach forever because we're barely outpacing the worst clubs in the league over the past 20 years. :thumbsu:

Heritage listing is an absolute cancer all over the world. Cities are designed to be lived in. You've got some of the biggest w***ers in society hoping to deny the average Tasmanian a football team. This sort of egregious nimbyism is something Anne Moran would be proud of. A 110 year old shed...

Nobody is having a go at him for expressing himself, but when he's a public figure he needs to do so in a way that doesn't bring his employer into disrepute. If he'd just said what he said during the clarification to begin with this wouldn't be a story

This is just putting your hands over your ears and ignoring history. Everyone knows we can win games in round 5. We'll probably finish in the top 5 or so. Port winning early regular season games isn't new or some sort of gotcha. Anyone who is trying to argue in favour of Ken Hinkley based on a...

Bring back the Ansett Cup and trial a no-zone defence rule like the old NBA rule, where if you're marking space and not a player you concede a free kick. You can double team and you can switch from player to player but you can't guard grass.

I'll bump it if we win a knockout final

Dunstall was rightly always getting there. Not really much more he could have done, his record is colossal. I agree that generally there are too many legends. They handed them out a bit too liberally in the early days, seemingly to cover off each of the Vic clubs. But Dunstall was getting in...