Ken Hinkley (Current Senior Coach)

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Date of Birth: 30th September 1966

Nickname: Kern

AFL Playing Career:

• 1987-1988 Fitzroy (11 games, 21 goals)

• 1989-1995 Geelong (121 games, 58 goals)

For more career stats click here.

Coaching Career:

• 1996-1998 Mortlake (MDFL) Senior Coach

• 1999-2000 Camperdown (HFL) Senior Coach

• 2001 St. Kilda (AFL) Assistant Coach

• 2002-2003 Bell Park (GFL) Senior Coach

• 2004-2009 Geelong (AFL) Assistant Coach

• 2010-2012 Gold Coast (AFL) Assistant Coach

• 2013-current Port Adelaide (AFL) Senior Coach

Honours:

• 1999, 2000 Camperdown (HFL) Premiership Coach

• 2003 Bell Park (GFL) Premiership Coach

• 2013 AFLCA Coach of the Year

More info on Ken Hinkley

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Ken Hinkley joins Port Adelaide from a long and successful career as an AFL assistant coach at the Geelong Football Club (where he was involved in two premiership sides) and Gold Coast.

He won premierships as senior coach at Victorian clubs Camperdown and Bell Park.

A successful player in his own right, Hinkley won Geelong's best and fairest in 1992 and was third in the Brownlow Medal count that same year.

Ken was announced as Port Adelaide senior coach on Monday 8 October 2013.

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[Ford Fairlane]

The life and times of Kenny Hinkley

Family, then football

Hinkley has settled quickly into Adelaide, where he lives close to the beach and Alberton.

He loved his time on the Gold Coast, where he was an assistant to Guy McKenna, but cherishes being back in a football city.

There is also the bonus of avoiding Melbourne and being in a smaller place.

"Adelaide's a really good place to get around in - we enjoy it," Hinkley said.

"Away from this, I just want to get home.

"I do actually like my own space, which is a little bit hard when you consider what I do."

Family, then football

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Hard times fire up Kenny (part 2 of Kenny Hinkley life cycle)

 

[Forzaport]

Hinkley's inspirational season launch speech. A must watch.

 

[Quadzilla]

I wrote a piece on Ken's journey to Alberton ... its in the 'roar' ...

Ken Hinkley’s journey to Port Adelaide


By Kevin Martin, 10 May 2013


I cant speak highly enough of Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley and the administrators that brought him to our great club.
Ken was interviewed by the Saints, Cats and Tigers and talked to the Dogs and Demons about their vacancies.

more at ...
http://www.theroar.com.au/2013/05/10/ken-hinkleys-journey-to-port-Adelaide

 

[Quadzilla]

Ken's 3/4 time speech in 2003 Geelong league GF replay ... Kenny's Bell Park won! wow ... its inspiring!

 

[Ant Bear]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-16/interview-ken-hinkley/5324316?section=sport
needed to be linked here, too

 

[Sims01]

Awesome photo.

 

[Forzaport]

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Terrific interview with Ken Hinkley by Michelangelo Rucci. Ken reflects on the season just finished and the challenges ahead.

This excerpt shows yet again what a great relationship Ken has with supporters, players and the club. This is the sort of bond and respect that can only be built through genuine belief and passion, it cannot be bought. Right man standing. #WeArePortAdelaide

Ken Hinkley

It is not just the players who love Ken Hinkley. So do the demanding and testing Port Adelaide fans. And while the elevation of Hinkley to a near cult figure — with T-shirts carrying his face and the message “Yes We Ken” — sits uneasily with Hinkley, he accepts the Port Adelaide Football Club is better for a coach who has rebuilt the bonds with the members and fans.
“This is a club — and I am coaching the club,” Hinkley says. “But I don’t do that alone.
“I have great help and I have great coaches working with me. I have great administration people who help me coach the club. We have a complete buy-in by all and I reckon that is what makes good clubs.

Ken Hinkley

 

[Powerstufff]

Hey Rankor I just watched one of the historical games they're doing on Foxtel at the moment and they had your 2016 buddy Ken Hinkley tearing it up in the 1991 EF against St Kilda at Waverley, a game the Cats won by 7 points. The win was in no small part due to Hinkley who played a Michael Wilson/Jake Hombsch style attacking defender role. Our Kenny was not shy to go the moderate biffo, but then few players in that game were. Few will be sad to hear he really gave Ricky Nixon a working over.

 

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