{"id":642355,"date":"2026-05-01T08:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T08:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/642355\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T08:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T08:40:10","slug":"afl-coach-reportedly-on-36ers-radar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/642355\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL coach reportedly on 36ers&#8217; radar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Port Adelaide AFL coach Ken Hinkley is reportedly in the mix to join the Adelaide 36ers in a coaching advisory role. <\/p>\n<p>Channel 9\u2019s Will Crouch said the 36ers had \u201csounded out\u201d Hinkley to work closely with Mike Wells and his coaching team.<\/p>\n<p>Hinkley coached the Power across 13 seasons and 297 games, twice winning the AFLCA Coach of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Adelaide 36ers are sounding out former Power coach Ken Hinkley for a coaching advisory role,\u201d Crouch said via X.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c36ers looking to add high-performance expertise and experience for Mike Wells + his staff to lean on. Hinkley still considering his AFL future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adelaide finished runners-up in the Hungry Jack\u2019s NBL26 campaign, falling just short of the Sydney Kings in a memorable five-game Championship Series.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Exclusive: The Adelaide 36ers are sounding out former Power coach Ken Hinkley for a coaching advisory role. 36ers looking to add high-performance expertise and experience for Mike Wells + his staff to lean on. Hinkley still considering his AFL future. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@NBL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FootyonNine?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@FootyonNine<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Will Crouch (@WillCrouch9) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WillCrouch9\/status\/2050070370636738770?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 1, 2026<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1777624810_951_69d47a153353ed2bdf7cd807_Article Banner_1920x250 (1).jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Port Adelaide AFL coach Ken Hinkley is reportedly in the mix to join the Adelaide 36ers in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-642355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}