Ken Hinkley

They've changed the president.

Everyone knows we can't change 44 players.

So you're stuck with one change, and that's the coach, unless you're big enough and brave enough to try and back the coach in, which end results get you.

Well, it feels like it, not having been through that at any stage, because I had at Port all the way through, basically had David the whole way and, you know, I had Chris for 10 years and, you know, had Keith Thomas and Matthew Richardson, who Matthew was a part of the club at the same time.

So it was almost continuous all the way through.

We all had the, you know, the same direction and we probably managed to get through that.

But at Carlton, it does give you an escape clause, Gerard.

That's what it gives you.

as the CEO, as the, you know, footy manager, and as the president, because they're the three key figureheads.

They make all the decisions.

The three decisions underneath that have been list manager, recruiting, and now coach.

Those three gentlemen were making those decisions and they had no connection to the original appointment.

So, yeah, it gives them a little bit of freedom, I imagine, to say, well, that's not what I would have done.

But now, now there's a challenge.

Now this is what you're going to do.

So what are you going to do?

Not really, not really.

But, you know, you always go into that honeymoon of you get on a roll, it starts to happen.

You know, I went through like we won 13 straight in one year.

And you go, you get on that roll and it's really hard to see anything going wrong.