Certified Legendary Thread Sack Hinkley 12 - Finals Are Scary

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Methinks ol' Kenneth is feeling the pressure

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Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley says assertions that a loss to Hawthorn in the semi-final will spend the end of his tenure at the Power are “uneducated” and “not facts”.

The Power will be looking to keep its season alive against a red-hot Hawks outfit at Adelaide Oval on Friday night.

The Power’s horror loss to Geelong in the qualifying final heaped pressure back on Hinkley as Port’s poor finals record of late continued.

Hinkley is contracted until the end of 2025 but it is now considered likely that a straight-sets exit, for the second year in a row, could force the Power to make a decision on the 12-year senior coach with assistant Josh Carr waiting in the wings.

In his media conference prior to the game Hinkley said assertions a loss could be the end of his time at Alberton were “uneducated”.

“I’m not going to be a smart-arse here in any way shape or form, but I am contracted,” he said.

“That is what the board have told me all the way through, they have showed me great support the entire journey and I trust that will be the same.

“It is uneducated, it is not facts. What are the facts?

“I get why the conversation keeps coming up, but the reality is – deal with the facts.

“I am preparing this week to help our team try and get our team to a preliminary final, that has too much riding on it for me to go into any of those places you want me to go and I just won’t go there.”

With Dan Houston (suspended) and Kane Farrell (hamstring) already sidelined, the Power’s hopes copped another hit on Wednesday morning when Ryan Burton was ruled out with a calf issue.

Small forward Jed McEntee looks set to be dropped, with the Power weighing up whether to go tall and recall Todd Marshall in his place.

Star midfielder Zak Butters will play despite nursing sore ribs.

Hinkey warned the Hawks to “bring it on” if they targeted Butters physically.


Hinkley will equal Mark Williams as coaching the most games for the Power on Friday night.

Despite the speculation about his future, he said it was not the biggest week of his coaching career.

“We have an opportunity to prepare play in a semi final which gives you an opportunity to play in a prelim final, so it has been pretty easy to keep our focus on what we need to do this week,” he said.

“I think that is not stuff that we worry on because we exactly know what we are doing internally and the direction we are going, we don’t need to get distracted by anything other than this week’s performance.

“Reality is you reflect on those things after your career and hopefully there is a lot more to go.”

Simeon Thomas-Wilson
He is such an uneducated bogan who thinks you can player "harderer" through injury.

And clearly leaking to Cornes.
 
I heard Rozee on SEN with Rucci yesterday, the feeling of pressure around all of this would well and truly be permeating through the club. The fallout if we lose will be pretty hectic. Whoever takes over will have some work to do re 'headspace'.

If we win 'I told youse so'...
 

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"It's me cattle not me coaching"

Sorry Ken seems not


 

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I wonder which part of his entourage arranged to write this one up:

 
I wonder which part of his entourage arranged to write this one up:

To be fair, this is probably his level and apart from hiring his family members would probably make a decent head of football.

He's great at being the friendly, approachable guy who can keep a group together.
What he can't do is motivate when things aren't going your way or develop a gameplan or manage in game challenges, you know the things a coach does
 
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