Footy Chat - Ken Hinkley's appointment at Tasmania (21.07.26)
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Breakfast with Gary and Tim.
Why is Ken Hinkley being hailed as the ideal inaugural coach for Tasmania?
And the more we've thought about and reflected, you know, I think Ken is ideally placed to not only meet those needs but exceed them.
Every part of his CV makes him perfect for the start-up devils, from Camperdown to Geelong, Gold Coast to Port Adelaide. He knows what a team means to a town. He knows what a great team looks like. He knows the challenges of starting from scratch and he knows how to galvanise a team to be more than its parts.
It's just a perfect fit, isn't it? And as much as the other candidates would have been all great as well. I don't think we'd had any arguments from most people.
What parts of Ken Hinkley’s CV make him suited to a start-up AFL club?
But the ability to connect with people inside the four walls, that's sort of what I've learnt in the last 12 months, how special that is. But the outside... I think it's just as important in the first two or three years.
To coach the Tasmanian Football Club, it's a special time, inaugural coach, like 100 years' time when Tasmania have won so many premierships. At some point, there'll be a revision moment where we look back and go, well, who was the first coach of the footy club? And my name's going to be there forever. It's something I'm going to be so proud of. And, you know, to be a part of that, it's such an exciting day for me and hopefully for everyone involved with Tasmania and the Tasmanian people because I'm now a Tasmanian.
Well, the appointment of Ken Inkley as the Tassie Devils' very first coach has been widely celebrated. He was yesterday unveiled as the Devils' leader on a five-year contract, Tim Watson, starting in November this year. He will, of course, remain committed to his media obligations throughout the course of the year, but then he's straight back into it. 13 years at Port Adelaide, four preliminary finals, obviously a star as a player at the Cats. And as you heard there, at the end of the year, Every part of his resume stacks up with coaching a club from scratch in a city that has never had a VFL or an AFL club before. It's going to be unbelievable to watch it unfold. Did they make the right decision in your eyes?
Yeah, they did. They did. And he's a team builder. He's a uniter. He's a connector. He's all those sorts of things. And he understands how big this job is. And he is the coach, not just of the Dells. He's the coach of a state. Like he's the coach of Tasmania.
That was a big part of it.
He will be the highest profile person in the state of Tasmania while he is there as the coach. and he would love to be coaching the Devils this weekend because he'd have a picture of Dave Matthews up on the whiteboard because that's what he loves. He loves to mine that sort of emotional stuff and that sort of connection. It'll be us, Tasmanian Devils, against the rest of the competition, and he'll have every negative comment that's ever been raised about this Tasmanian team. He'll be throwing it at the players left, right, and center because that's what he does. That's what minds, and he's been very, very good at that.
How seamlessly did he slip back into it yesterday? Perfect. His press conference. I'm now Tasmanian. He's just got to get the Launceston pronunciation right.
How did Ken describe the significance of being Tasmania’s first coach?
But once he nails that, it's all done. He slipped seamlessly back into coach mode, didn't he?
Yeah, you could tell. Obviously, Johnny Longmire was in there and Nathan Buckley was being considered too. And I don't think this had anything to do necessarily with we need a premiership coach or whatever because obviously they went with somebody that hadn't won the flag. It was all about the ability to connect and get on the road and unite the people of Tasmania behind this team and somebody who they felt was going to have that personality and that preparedness to be able to go and do the hard yards and speak at maybe a little football, whatever it might be. Rubber on the road, as Brendan Gale said many times. 100%. And that's what they've got. And he's a very, very authentic character, is Ken Hinckley.
I don't know him like you do because I've never worked with him Intimately, like you have on programs and I know other producers, but everybody that meets him, is in contact with him, says that he's this warm, engaging, authentic character.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:01
2
Why is Ken Hinkley being hailed as the ideal inaugural coach for Tasmania?
0:01–0:35
3
What parts of Ken Hinkley’s CV make him suited to a start-up AFL club?
0:35–2:57
4
How did Ken describe the significance of being Tasmania’s first coach?
2:57–7:22
5
What reasons did the Devils selection panel give for choosing character over a premiership resume?
7:22–18:18
Speakers
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