Certified Legendary Thread Sack Hinkley 13 - Another Crack At This (Stepping down end of 2025)

[Steve Dore]

Of the presentations, Davies was the most self serving. Yes. 3rd on the home and away ladder between 2013 and 2024. That'll go down in the AFL annals of history as an impressive block of 12 years during the regular season. Are we back using the imperial system?

Who can name which clubs were 1st and 2nd on the home and away ladder between 2013 and 2024?

I tried Googling it but couldn't find the answer.

I can however name all of the teams that won flags in that time. It is certainly a sign of how far from our once great club we have been taken by the current loser administration when they use obscure statistics to justify "success".

 

[EskimoPAFC]

At least partly to blame is the dilution of the motto "We exist to win premierships". Those 5 words served as a guiding star for the club, an easy way to make sure every decision was made with the correct goal in mind.

Now its "we exist to win premiership and community the proudery blah blah blah". Its become a meaningless and confusing cop out that gives people an out for failure.

 

[Enviable Tradition]

At least partly to blame is the dilution of the motto "We exist to win premierships". Those 5 words served as a guiding star for the club, an easy way to make sure every decision was made with the correct goal in mind.

Now its "we exist to win premiership and community the proudery blah blah blah". Its become a meaningless and confusing cop out that gives people an out for failure.

Didn't we drop the community proud bit?

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[EskimoPAFC]

Didn't we drop the community proud bit?

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Official AFL Website of the Port Adelaide Football Club

The official AFL website of the Port Adelaide Football Club

www.portadelaidefc.com.au

Here's one example of it.

 

[Us against the rest]

Cuddle me Daddy, I’m scared.

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These grown men hugging pictures sure are creepy. I wonder how many parents would want a former AFL coach (cough cough) in Hinkley as the new head school footy coach?

 

[Us against the rest]

 

[PowerLil]

These grown men hugging pictures sure are creepy. I wonder how many parents would want a former AFL coach (cough cough) in Hinkley as the new head school footy coach?

These types of photos of Hinkley really must stop.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

We can't help what photos the Advertiser chooses to use.

Also the headline as presented is misleading, Rozee said we can be a better team despite losing Houston. He gave Houston high praise, but thinks we are in a better position with new players in a range of positions which will make us better overall.

Anyway, back to Hinkley.

 

[Sheeds]

I've only ever attended three AGM's previously and I didn't get a lot out of them. Some probably do but I find that a lot of legitimate questions and concerns are brushed aside fairly quickly and in the end it turns into a PR exercise with a lot of back patting from club officials.

I won't comment on the validity of whether Ken Hinkley did or didn't have a wedding to attend. But I do believe when you are an AFL Senior Coach who has been paid millions of dollars and only have a return of three final wins in a decade, you have had another failed finals campaign in season 12 at the helm and members and fans have not heard anything from you for over two months, you need to front up and face some legitimate questions and accountability on your role in the failure. The AGM is an appropriate forum to do that.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

I've only ever attended three AGM's previously and I didn't get a lot out of them. Some probably do but I find that a lot of legitimate questions and concerns are brushed aside fairly quickly and in the end it turns into a PR exercise with a lot of back patting from club officials.

I won't comment on the validity of whether Ken Hinkley did or didn't have a wedding to attend. But I do believe when you are an AFL Senior Coach who has been paid millions of dollars and only have a return of three final wins in a decade, you have had another failed finals campaign in season 12 at the helm and members and fans have not heard anything from you for over two months, you need to front up and face some legitimate questions and accountability on your role in the failure. The AGM is an appropriate forum to do that.

I remember back in the day when you weren't even allowed to ask questions at an AGM. Then one year out of the blue they opened the floor for questions and we all sat there like stunned mullets.

Mind you we won a lot of premierships back then.

 

[Doctor Feel]

I really only attended AGM's during the great WHAT ABOUT THE BUSES era.

 

[tribey]

These types of photos of Hinkley really must stop.

It’s the enduring image of the era.

Instead of premiership photos and associated celebrations, we have overly intimate close-talking cuddles and shot after shot of bewildered trudging off following the latest big game disaster.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Cuddle me Daddy, I’m scared.

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lol it looks like Hinkley is giving a side-eye to make sure the cameras are on him

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Only thing Port Adelaide-related on this list is the coach carrying on like a bellend after the semi-final, completely overshadowing what was a great win his players.

Just the latest proof that everything at PAFC has become about one individual to the detriment of the collective.

Apparently Ken has confided to those close to him that he’s worried the Ginnivan incident will be his legacy, he might be right given Caro is a close source and supporter of his and even she won’t let it go.

Ken would have rung her up and cried to her that he fears about his "legacy" being tarnished by it.

 

[El_Scorcho]

I wish the Ginnivan incident was his legacy.

Instead his legacy is continual failure and unprecedented mediocrity.

 

[VineValerian]

I've only ever attended three AGM's previously and I didn't get a lot out of them. Some probably do but I find that a lot of legitimate questions and concerns are brushed aside fairly quickly and in the end it turns into a PR exercise with a lot of back patting from club officials.

I won't comment on the validity of whether Ken Hinkley did or didn't have a wedding to attend. But I do believe when you are an AFL Senior Coach who has been paid millions of dollars and only have a return of three final wins in a decade, you have had another failed finals campaign in season 12 at the helm and members and fans have not heard anything from you for over two months, you need to front up and face some legitimate questions and accountability on your role in the failure. The AGM is an appropriate forum to do that.

Awww.
You are so tough on Kenny boy.
Poor guy.

 

[EskimoPAFC]

Imagine thinking that its ok to want to burn an entire season of 40 odd young mens careers, as well as close to a million dollars taken from over 100k supporters, so people will forget you argued with a teenager once.

 

[Doctor Feel]

The pafc coaches box is hereby called the cuck booth.

 

[Bump Bailey]

lol it looks like Hinkley is giving a side-eye to make sure the cameras are on him

He’s somehow thick yet cunning at the same time.

 

[tribey]

Imagine thinking that its ok to want to burn an entire season of 40 odd young mens careers, as well as close to a million dollars taken from over 100k supporters, so people will forget you argued with a teenager once.

‘He was worried about his legacy’.

Not because of the relentless September failures you can set your watch to, but because he felt it would be clever to lip off at an opposition player after a home Semi Final against 7th-place that he was lucky to get the chocolates in, and immediately faced backlash of a level that had only previously come from the likes of us.

It’s always only ever about him, yet he still manages to command the enduring sympathy of a ridiculous number of our supporters and the wider media in general.

‘His legacy’.

It’s hilarious, because carrying on like a smug d¡ckhead when he’s kicking with a stiff breeze, and generally letting his emotions get the better of him in high-pressure situations, is 100% on-brand.

Be that:

• spraying an opposition player,

• the embarrassing “zero-5/1-zero” carry-on after Motlop saved his arse in that Showdown,

• storming out of a press conference when asked about his contract,

• spraying rookie-Peter Ladhams after he had the bright idea to pit him and not Scott Lycett against Todd Goldstein,

• ringing Kane Cornes to complain the first time Kane didn’t slurp his knackers,

• smirking/grinning/joking after pathetic losses,

• the shirty exchange with Tredrea at 5AA in the aftermath of the 2021 Prelim,

• the rumoured spat with Schofield,

• or blubbering in a comically brittle fashion to Sarah Jones after scraping past the lowly Saints at Marvel.

Imagine where’d we’d be if this team could’ve had the benefit of an emotionally-stable, selfless coach, with the tactical acumen and interpersonal skills to get the most out of them as individuals and a unit when it matters most?

It is a crime he is still employed by Port and we’re entering yet another freaking year with him sucking all hope out of the joint.

 

[JimmyBC]

Caro has herself highlighted half the guy's problem without really delving deeper "he coaches with wild emotional swings" err yea not exactly conducive to keeping focus.

 

[PowerLil]

Crybaby Kenny is sook and a sore loser. That's his legacy.

 

[JimmyBC]

He was as flat as a tack immediately after the aeroplane incident lol and it would've carried through the week like an energy drain on all and sundry.

 

[Fizzler]

He was as flat as a tack immediately after the aeroplane incident lol and it would've carried through the week like an energy drain on all and sundry.

Yeah in hindsight there’s no chance we could ever have considered being a chance of winning the prelim a week after that. Was a good thing I actually put money on Sydney beating us lol.

 

[JimmyBC]

Yeah in hindsight there’s no chance we could ever have considered being a chance of winning the prelim a week after that. Was a good thing I actually put money on Sydney beating us lol.

That was his blow it moment, lost self control and as soon as Sicily told him the truth he went silent, flat and mopy.