The Art of Coaching with Ken Hinkley | Preliminary final weekend! (16.09.26)
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Why do preliminary finals feel different from regular season games?
The Art of Coaching on a Wednesday with Ken Hinckley. Kenny, welcome. Good morning, Jared. How are you? I'm well. A very interesting week coming up, isn't it? It's that time of the year where I I don't agree with Errol. I don't think they're much fun. I I mean I've never lucky enough to win one, so as a coach of my own right, I was lucky enough to be involved with winning prelim finals and they are ex you know, they're incredibly fun if you get the victory, but not as much fun obviously on on the other side of it. So it's a it's a fantastic. It's always I mean we all the football people tend to think this is a great great weekend of football, the greatest weekend probably of of the competitive spirit and the and the way the game's played normally comes out in prelim finals.
Is there a special tension associated with prelims?
Yeah, I think there is for I mean, as I said, in in my ride as a coach, uh and and in my time as a coach, even at Geelong when we won through and made and grand finals and won grand finals, there's definitely a tension. And there's a tightness. There's a tightness in everyone that that happens. And uh, you know, I remember Geelong, I think it was in two thousand and seven when it was Collingwood, I reckon. Collingwood two thousand and seven was only a six point margin or something. It was a close margin. We'd been dominant all year at but we tightened up, you know, we tightened up. up in the pre limb final and you know, it's one game. You you make em you make mistakes in that one game and she can be all over and
Whether you're favourites or not favourites, it doesn't matter when you get there on the night or the day. It's a it's a matter of who turns up with the right attitude. And I I listened to those interviews there and and which one was the calmest? It was pretty clear, wasn't it, w to me listening to them? Dunkley was calm. Josh was calm. Just put your head over the footy, it's what you gotta do. And you know, Errol was probably enjoyed the freedom of winning pre-limb finals, but um, you know, the other two boys were a little bit, oh, gee, um yeah, we're we're ready. We're ready to go, but Josh was calm. That's what I took from the from the four boys. It's it's great to hear them all talk though, because they're a little all elite players.
They all wanna be a part of the week after and but they know importantly they've got to get this week done.
All right. So but I do want to take you through the four prelims if that's okay. Just a little bit. Just a little bit. So twenty fourteen, you are the this is your second year and your second year of of finals, and you're the the new kids on the block, as it were, against the generational team that is Hawthorne. And Y y free spirited early, but the trouble is you kick three goals nine. You might have like you might have had such a gap at quarter time.
Yeah, it had a great start. We had Boak and Grey coming out of the middle. powerfully and great and you know, and full of full of energy and, you know, you know what? They had no fear. You know, 'cause it that was their first time. They had no fear and they didn't know have any expectation. I think from that final onwards, from that freelancing during the time at Port Adelaide became There w there was a lot more fear because the expectations had risen because we'd done that. But against Hawthorne in that game was a fantastic game.
How does Ken Hinkley describe the tension and tightness in a prelim final?
I mean We started powerfully. The the Hawks, to their credit, um got hold of us in the mid tip mid period, you know, second and third quarter and they had a gap on us. But by gee, we stormed home. We come hard in the last quarter and we missed some opportunities. You know, we had I do remember some set shots, you know, Andrew Moore, Maury had a shot from the back, really difficult shot. Matty Lobey had a shot early in the quarter from fifteen meters out, not so difficult. you know, you had to get everything right. We were all you know, we were coming hard at the end, but I think that's what If I think back to my Geelong days in two thousand and seven, seven years earlier, that's what that's what that game felt.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why do preliminary finals feel different from regular season games?
0:00–2:51
2
How does Ken Hinkley describe the tension and tightness in a prelim final?
2:51–5:51
3
What lessons did Ken learn from the 2014 prelim win over Hawthorn?
5:51–8:45
4
How did the 2020 prelim loss to Hawthorn shape the team’s mindset?
8:45–11:36
5
What psychological factors affect players in a high‑pressure prelim?
11:36–14:46
6
How did the Richmond grand final loss influence Ken’s coaching approach?
14:46–17:39
7
What role does preparation during the week play in a team’s success?
17:39–20:48
8
How will Ken and Gerard apply these insights ahead of the grand final?
20:48–22:56
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