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Question for Port fans, can you see Port rising back to top 4 with a new coach, game plan, and the current youth you have plus an aggressive trade period over the next 2 years?
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There is no fresh voice that will make them premiership material. This is delusional SANFL port thinking.Time for a fresh voice and a decent game plan .
You've been 2nd, 4th, 1st and 4th for disposals the last 4 years.
Question for Port fans, can you see Port rising back to top 4 with a new coach, game plan, and the current youth you have plus an aggressive trade period over the next 2 years?
Alot of football clubs dream of ken hinkley 10 year stability. Port fans have trouble understanding this isn't SANFL anymore. You can't expect to win a flags like good old SANFL days. You need to be in position to win one and uncle Kenny has gotten you to that best position with your dire list
I want simmo to stay on for atleast 4 years. You stick by coachesYou know what you're right, why don't you start a campaign to get Hinkley over to west coast?
We've been 2nd, 4th, 1st and 4th for disposals because we play a shitty slow chip chip retention of possession gameplan more concerned with not allowing the opponent to score than with scoring ourselves. The worst example of which was against your club at Adelaide Oval earlier this year. Ross Lyon would have been embarrassed by that game.You've been 2nd, 4th, 1st and 4th for disposals the last 4 years.
Play on percentage isn't widely available but I'd imagine Port have been no worse than middle of the road there. Lots of the ball - move it on quickly - that's high tempo footy.
As I said, he's struggled for scoring at times, and I think a more direct and crudely powerful game plan might be required for him to take a side deep in to finals. But for a young team getting your hands on the ball, sharing it around and having the skills to hold possession is a good start.
So you agree that the Bulldogs were given a free kick premiership?I'd back the majority view that has no bias tbh
Ok, there's a coach in the recent AFL era who had/has taken his team to finals 3 times in their last 8 years, for only 2 finals wins?
Deserving of keeping their job?
Has Ken ever been popular with Port fans?
Seems from day dot he just never seemed to gel with the fans.
Has Ken ever been popular with Port fans?
Seems from day dot he just never seemed to gel with the fans.
Just my opinion but I thought he was great in 13/14. We played an attacking slingshot style and moved forwards at all costs through the corridor.
After the prelim loss when we went into 2015 as one of the favourites and once teams put extra attention on our ball movement forcing us out of the corridor, we started to see there was no plan B.
Since this point, we have had the exact same issues year after year which is why for me at least, the frustration has just grown to a boiling point even after a couple prelims as those issue were still present then.
That’s 7 years now with an undersized defence, slow ball movement, no forward structure and generally poor foot skills with no improvement.
Ok, there's a coach in the recent AFL era who had/has taken his team to finals 3 times in their last 8 years, for only 2 finals wins?
Deserving of keeping their job?
Except Bass can actually coach.Reminds me of Ben Hart at Collingwood and then the Crows.
In hindsight 2013-14 were likely a combination of factors:
- the move to Adelaide oval and revitalisation that came with that
- Darren Burgess taking over and giving us an edge (whether it was mental or not, we seemed like one of the fitter sides)
- the natural development of some of the younger players, Boak hitting his straps, Gray becoming one of the best players in the comp, some ripper draftees in wines and wingard
- the galvanising effect on the team of the sad death of McCarthy.
+ Ken at that time was probably a good motivator and able to bring the group together strongly. He deserves some credit for that.
I don't think he's ever been an especially clever tactician. The idea that he somehow saved the club is ridiculous.
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No they haven't let them suffer for eternity. I grew up in SA and had to listen to their crap for decades. You either went for them or hated them.Sack Hinkley. They’ve suffered enough
So you agree that the Bulldogs were given a free kick premiership?
Judged by the non biased majority...