New to Kayo? Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\nHinkley made a public apology and was fined $20,000 by the league. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe AFL decided to impose a fine on me and shame me, and I was pretty unforgiving of that to be honest,\u201d Hinkley said on SEN on Wednesday morning. <\/p>\n
\u201cI just didn\u2019t think there was an enormous amount of care in their way of treating me through that journey.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen we were coming up against Hawthorn in a game that was the headline act of Gather Round. Yeah, we used it to make sure that we gave ourselves a chance.\u201d<\/p>\n
The AFL last year used the incident in promotional material to promote the 2025 Gather Round showdown between the two clubs. <\/p>\n
At the time, Hawks captain James Sicily had to be held back by teammates amid tense scenes and Hinkley conceded there was a \u201chealthy rivalry\u201d between the outfits.<\/p>\n
The AFL poured fuel on the fire by putting the clash at Adelaide Oval on Sunday night as a fitting close to Gather Round.<\/p>\n
When asked if he felt used by the AFL, Hinkley responded to Gerard Whateley by saying: \u201cYeah, I did, there is no doubt I did.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can say that now because I am out of the game and I can be a little bit more honest and say that it did feel like (I was exploited).<\/p>\n
\u201cI made the mistake. I did the crime, which was OK. I owed that \u2026 and was embarrassed by my own behaviour.<\/p>\n
\u201cI made the mistake, I done (sic) the crime … and I owned that and talked about that quite openly straight afterwards and was embarrassed by my own behaviour,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut then to promote it on their website, leading into Gather Round with me and Hawthorn and Ginni (Ginnivan) – who luckily enough, he took it in the right way – it felt a little bit misused if you\u2019re making a moral stand on what I should and shouldn\u2019t be allowed to do. That\u2019s just the way I felt.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hinkley hypothesised there may have been more to the AFL\u2019s decision to impose such a significant fine on him. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere was an incident the week before with Jason McCartney and Tommy Papley where there was a bit of physical pushing and shoving,\u201d he said further.<\/p>\n
\u201cI suppose they were in the mood for stamping out any behaviour post games or breaks that involved the two opposing sides in any way, shape or form.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have every right to do what they did. I just felt like there was a little extra in it for some reason. I probably occasionally had caused him some problems over the journey in different ways but maybe this is their chance to clip me properly, I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said he was \u201churt\u201d by how he was treated.<\/p>\n
Hinkley has been widely applauded for making a popular transition to the footy media landscape through his commentary on Fox Footy. <\/p>\n
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