Open Mike - Rene Kink (23/9/2014)

[@carolynm9638]

What a breath of fresh air - a man who has no problem with HONESTY. Thanks for the memories Rene. One of my childhood heros.

[@gavaniacono]

An authentic bloke, Mr Kink, good to hear him speak honestly.

[@wades9327]

I love how he calls that era of footy "real football". He's right, that was a man's game then.

[@jarradjeffs1132]

Great honest and frank interview - I can't help but like the big unit, even if he did play for Collingwood

[@markdp1983]

Kinky had charisma; one of the highest profiles players at the time.. He was also superb as Tank O'Donahue in The Club.

[@IsaacAsimov1992]

Absolutely loved this interview.

[@SpawnofChaos2010]

Life is bloody tough as we all know and for every triumph there's a kick to the guts. While I'm not a Collingwood fan I couldn't help but feel for Rene's grief. The glory of having made it to the big time, playing in the VFL, tempered by grand final heartache. To have played played league footy is such a monumental achievement that can be easily overlooked, something I hope fortifies Rene's soul amidst the darkness.

[@svoukidis]

Nice one mate

[@RexMundi_UTC]

Nicely written, summed it perfectly.

[@The_Bit_Player]

Finally, a man willing to speak his mind.

[@MJH_1963]

Nothing compared to Mark Jacko Jackson. Oh for the likes of him today.

[@svoukidis]

@@MJH_1963 Nothing in what way do you mean ? He punched his head in at the boxing ring so as far as being a real man Jackie Jacko is nothing

[@terrya8989]

the interviews with players that are not now involved in the media are far better.

[@greg8598]

Awesome player. Started playing firsts at 16 and handled it. Most wouldn't. Massively strong, hugely talented. Watching him do his thing is one of my favourite footy memories.

[@dennishunt1590]

I remember Rene Kink, he would have to be one of the best footballers I'd ever seen... On his day he was unstoppable, there was nothing anyone could do to stop his powerhouse play.

[@svoukidis]

Spot on brother

[@jamieteal2107]

@@svoukidisyes he was surely the envy of many young fans of my age back then 🇦🇺

[@kurtflahavin5994]

I like Rene Kink, he has a lot of honesty about him.

[@qqq2211]

Great interview thanks for posting , interesting regarding Kevin Sheedy

[@ronanrogers4127]

Interesting that Kink refers to those years as real football - he's absolutely right. The style of 'football' today is shite.

[@CARETAKER89able]

Rene deserved Better..Legend,and im a North Fan!!

[@dennishunt1590]

I loved watching Rene Kink and I am a Geelong supporter

[@hihenry8129]

Certainly down to earth, nice man, could have listened to The Band of Gypsies a bit more especially before a grand final.

[@anncoral]

Good interview I admire his honesty.

[@whiteman2371]

What a legend. Love that honesty

[@charlesmartella]

Never ever went for Collingwood but when I was a kid I loved him. Rene Kink was one of my favourite players.

[@svoukidis]

Rene was a great bloke, very honest and if he had a great coach that could understand and motivate him could have been one of the greats. Used both sides of his body and had no weaknesses skill wise. Great interview unlike other fake and weak ex players !

[@svoukidis]

@aj j So what ? What does that have to do with the interview?

[@MrMagicmatt05]

If he had a great coach? He had Tom Hafey and Kevin Sheedy. What more do you want?

[@svoukidis]

@@MrMagicmatt05 You obviously didn’t understand what I meant or didn’t listen carefully to what Rene said. By great coach it means good for him not in general and with impressive finals results. Great coach that kink could get along well with . Sheedy was a prick to him and left him out of the 1985 grand final and Tommy was a good coach but didn’t know how to use kink to the side’s advantage and could not motivate kink enough to be a consistent performer. That’s what kink meant I think

[@MrMagicmatt05]

@@svoukidis how much responsibility should Kink take for his own performance?

[@svoukidis]

@@MrMagicmatt05 You should look at your own achievements , he made it to a preliminary final at age 15 -16 and kicked 3 goals 4 in his first finals appearance . He had a good career and was a cult figure in the seventies and eighties finishing 7th in the Brownlow in 1979 amongst the greatest players ever played at the top level . His skills were outstanding and was a match winner many times for Collingwood helping them reach many grand finals. What have you done ? Judge your own life before judging others. Looser.

[@pjshot]

Rene Kink , was one of the best players in the comp . good onya speaking ur mind Rene

[@johndoe5061]

Thought Rene was an open and honest guy in this interview. Definitely not a flog as some may say!! lol.

[@hamishphistopholoes6540]

@M Soccer: beloved by lady boys the world over.

[@leonperry7452]

He's spot on about Sheedy.... a bloke that regularly ambushed the Essendon Board when contract negotiations were open. Also disgracefully and deliberately threw Matthew Knights under a bus to open the way for star pupil Hird to get the gig at Essendon........just because Knights had the temerity to be next in the job after Sheedy finally got the boot. He's no saint, and definitely no hero.

[@AbsolutelyEverybody1]

Thats interesting. Maybe there is another side to him

[@terrycarthy4433]

What do you mean by him "ambushing the board" ? I'm intrigued. I think the media's afforded Sheedy a super friendly ride forever. He's a self-obsessed bore.

[@Superfly1503]

Feels like it was really hard work for Rene. The grind seemed to sap the love out of the game for him.

[@andrewweatherhead4127]

Rene loved him at Collingwood. Even more at the Bombers. Great skill and huge kick either side of the body. Best wishes.🤗🤗

[@jessesands4099]

Rene came from the same town I was born in Ararat in Western Victoria!🙂🐑🍇🍷⛰️

[@svoukidis]

Ararat Victoria

[@roostersbays95]

i have always respected 'popeye' but geez what an eyeopener, i have a new found respect for Renee

[@tonycostanzo4276]

on his day he was unstoppable

[@ClarkKent71]

Played doubles tennis against Rene on a public tennis court in Brunswick in the early 80s when I was in grade 6. Him and his mate against two 12 year olds. Gave them a tennis lesson. Very funny.

[@n057828]

Legend go pies!

[@RobbieBoy33]

Thanks Rene, for a coach like Sheedy to not have a one on one relationship with his team members is really sad.i can't see how a plan like that would ever work.

[@tonybutcher4762]

Dickie Clay is a name I will never forget, 1971 I need his footy card to have the full set.

[@savvastzionis9112]

Scanlens the bastards would purposely produce very few cards for certain players each year.!

[@newellgirl]

Loved Rene Kink..was an explosive forward..when the Pies were on a roll Kinky would be one of instigators..love how he calls it straight..

[@chirmchirm]

At least he was honest, I'm assuming he didn't help his cause at essendon but at least he have his honest opinion

[@ronanrogers4127]

He comes across as intelligent and insightful. He was one of my favourite players, and I'm a Blues supporter!!

[@sobored9317]

Yeah mate had to be a reason Essendon went off him like that, which he fails to mention, but you can’t help but like him

[@Alfredromeothatsme]

Tommy Hafey was an old style drill sergeant, totally unsuitable to modern football. Took no consideration that older guys needed more recovery periods than younger guys. Saying that he was a great guy, always gave me a wave when he was out jogging (every day) whilst I was driving to work.

[@quantum_man]

Great interview

[@001Boof]

Beauty.

[@dannymiller7880]

Genuine talent and very honest and upfront

[@RobbieBoy33]

I agree mate, you could have been played more like Dane Swan. I lamented over games where you hardly got a kick, what a waste. Anyway you gave me a bloody lot of enjoyment, go well my son.

[@angusyates828]

Flamboyant, outspoken, non conformist, eccentric or plain honest characters, regardless of their good intentions and abilities often get the rough end of the pineapple in life. That was true in any era, anywhere on earth, but today is especially so. Contemporary Australia is a remarkably conformist place and people fail to fathom how that negatively manifests itself on society in general. We're more boring, bland, greedy and one dimensional as a people and a country. Mark 'Jacko' Jackson's, Renee Kink's, Dermott Brereton's, Paul Van Der Haar's, Sam Newman's, Warwick Capper's and even Gary Ablett snr's antics, just to name a few just in football, wouldn't be tolerated at all. We're all poorer for it. The 1980's and early 1990's was the best era in which people were generally more tolerant of difference, not less. We think we're more tolerant and compassionate as a society today but we're deluding ourselves. Its just a different form of intolerance and stigmatisation. Those groups on the receiving end for it have just shifted. Better for some, worse for others but no more tolerant. Probably less. We also take ourselves way too seriously and life has lost the vibe and colour it once contained. If you need proof, look at the fates of Brendan Fevola, Jason Akermanis and Sam Newman in the football industry alone. None are bad people they were just too honest and weren't robots.... *In my humble opinion.

[@svoukidis]

Agree , look at how Australia treated Djokovic also . Any footballer or high profile person with any personality and character that doesn’t agree with the masses are treated like shit by governments and their puppets

[@maxipaz5597]

Is he a hairdresser? Honest question

[@frankmachin5438]

MAXI PAZ He was a ladies hairdresser for a time...

[@brettbrett9973]

How bad are the questions and a poor inetrview.He always finishes with "im sorry we didnt..........." Why?

[@mattgibson3629]

I loved the Hulk as a kid. But Jesus .. this interview is painful.. constant whinging.. poor me

[@MrMagicmatt05]

Agreed. He may have been treated poorly, but it appears to be all about him. He said he didn’t work as hard because footy wasn’t that important to him, but takes no responsibility for that. Sounds selfish, which is a shame, because it appears that he was a very good player. I’d love to hear Sheedy’s version/opinion of Rene Kink.

[@ameagher2]

It wasn't mentioned but I think Rene was suspended for spitting. I could be wrong.

[@barefootbooks69]

+ameagher2 He spat at Jezza in the 1979 Grand Final and copped a six week suspension.

[@svoukidis]

ameagher2 so ?

[@svoukidis]

That’s right but we don’t know what Jezza said to him to deserve that.

[@savvastzionis9112]

@@svoukidis Re esei ... ola vlakies les etho!!

[@austopinion4388]

Kevin Sheedy is right this guy has a high opinion of him self. Flog.

[@cbkbstudio]

Oh yes, the honourable K. Sheedy who spinelessly raised drug-taking claims with Victorian Police over Hawthorn. all class.

[@austopinion4388]

What they were doing looked like a dodgy thing to do, how is that spineless? It's not. Kevin Sheedy is clearly a class act.

[@cbkbstudio]

Spineless because they didn't ask, just dobbed and claimed they didn't actually dob. Was it "all class" when he used the throat-slitting gesture against a player?

[@austopinion4388]

Do you want to make sense, wtf does that first paragraph mean? The player he did it to deserved it. He probably shouldn't of done it. Anyone can nit pick. Most people have things they regret they shouldn't of done. But overall he was a class act.

[@cbkbstudio]

Snitching, and telling everyone since that he didn't. Fear not ... J. Hird is (still) there to save the day.

[@nathand4500]

scraping the bottom of the barrel. met him up in queensland in 1994 when i was a 12 year old during summer at a local swimming pool. he was there with barry stoneham, justin madden, john rantall, greg williams, tony shaw, leigh matthews, mark ricciuto, jason akermanis, nick maxwell, david rhys-jones, neil balme, andrew mcleod, simon black, david schwarz, anthony koutoufides, mal michael, andrew demetriou, sam newman, matthew richardson, nathan buckley, rene kink, damian monkhorst, tony liberatore, keith greig, royce hart, bob murphy, stewart loewe, wayne schwass, kevin bartlett, alastair lynch, gavin wanganeen, corey mckernan, robert walls, peter sumich, denis pagan, jason dunstall, john kennedy jr, bob skilton, neil kerley, wayne johnston and phil carman. they were all acting like total flogs.

[@302cab]

so you actually didn't care..from a team perspective..shut up shop???...

[@svoukidis]

If he did enough for the team and they were going to win he did shut shop sometimes . Haven’t you ever not given 100% over a long period of time ?

[@hanspiechoki7521]

Gee he’s full of it

[@svoukidis]

More like you’re full of it flog.

[@nathand4500]

Scraping the bottom of the barrel. Met him down in Hobart in 2015 at the Salamanca markets at a local cafe. Tried to cut the line in front of me. Total flog.

[@svoukidis]

I bet you didn’t tell him your thoughts . Your side of the story could be different to his anyway and maybe he didn’t notice that you were before him . He’s not a flog that’s for sure but you might be.

[@shadmo8629]

@@svoukidis that idiot writes the same thing on every one of these old open mikes

[@bellerive7018]

You gotta stop going to the market 😂!!

[@brendanc2299]

That is made up mate . You said exactly the same about Tony Modra. Does every former footballer come to Hobart and cut in front of you?

[@svoukidis]

@@brendanc2299 Nathan the flog storyteller hey

[@hirdy6]

Odd that Kink describes Kevin Sheedy as a weak man, first person I've ever heard do that, Sheedy is looked up to by a lot better people than Rene Kink, who boasts how he likes to spend time with criminal Mick Gatto, punching the tripe out of each other.

[@svoukidis]

+hirdy6 Sheedy was weak against Rene , maybe he is looked up to by others that had easier relationships, but true character is measured in difficult situations. Rene was always honest and frank not a little backstabbing pussy !

[@hirdy6]

spartan lakonia Fair enough but I've heard Sheedy called all sorts of things but as I said never weak.

[@svoukidis]

@@hirdy6 There is always a first . According to their relationship thats how Rene felt . Others might have had a different relationship . Not all people get on well .

[@Al_Bundy_1966]

What a flog.

[@JV.-jv.]

Al Bundy highly intelligent response you must be an academic

[@svoukidis]

We know you are a flog

[@sentimentalbloke185]

The guy couldn't play 4 quarters, simple as that. Too easily distracted or put off his game.

[@svoukidis]

That’s why he was 7th in the 79 Brownlow smartass? Played many great games actually that got Collingwood in the finals and grand finals. You didn’t follow his career close enough

[@malcolmlee2935]

Looks like meatloaf