\n As speculation surrounds Port Adelaide on several fronts, Ken Hinkley says few rumours come true as he prepares for his second-last game as Power coach\n <\/p>\n
Ken Hinkley speaks to his players during the R20 match between Port Adelaide and Adelaide at Adelaide Oval on July 27, 2025, Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n
KEN HINKLEY reckons about one per cent of footy rumours come true as speculation swirls on several fronts at Port Adelaide.<\/p>\n
Hinkley will end his 13-year stint as head coach after two more games, handing over to assistant Josh Carr.<\/p>\n
The Power coach has been linked with numerous AFL jobs next season, including as Carlton’s next football operations boss.<\/p>\n
But Port’s current football manager Chris Davies has also been touted for the role at the Blues.<\/p>\n
“Everyone gets linked everywhere, don’t they, this time of year when there’s an opportunity,” Hinkley told reporters on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
“Me, Chris, players – we all get linked at different times.<\/p>\n
“What I do know about footy is that about one per cent come true.”<\/p>\n
Hinkley has maintained he won’t decide his future until after a post-season break.<\/p>\n
If Hinkley joined Carton – which has axed Brad Lloyd as head of football – he would re-unite with Blues coach Michael Voss, who was a long-time assistant at Port.<\/p>\n
Carlton hosts the Power on Saturday afternoon at Marvel Stadium.<\/p>\n
Ken Hinkley and Michael Voss during Port Adelaide’s clash with Carlton in round 12, 2024. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n
“We don’t talk until after the game … normal practice for us,” Hinkley said when asked if he had spoken with Voss.<\/p>\n
Hinkley also took some delight in batting away questions about Port’s pursuit for St Kilda ace Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera.<\/p>\n
“From my point of view, I get to bail out on this question,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I don’t know … history would tell you that long-term, late in the season, those decisions do seem to go a certain way.<\/p>\n
Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera during St Kilda’s match against Melbourne in R12, 2025. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n
“But I’m not going to make any prediction on any of that because I have no information and I can’t help you in any way to predict the outcome.<\/p>\n
“I do know that the young man that everyone’s talking about, I can understand why everyone’s talking about him.”<\/p>\n
Nor would Hinkley bite on rumours Collingwood forward Beau McCreery has toured Port’s headquarters while considering a four-year offer from the Alberton club.<\/p>\n
“I have not seen Beau at the footy club,” he said.<\/p>\n
“If he has been here, I might not recognise him, but I think he’s trying to get over a hamstring to get back and ready to play football for Collingwood.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As speculation surrounds Port Adelaide on several fronts, Ken Hinkley says few rumours come true as he prepares…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-64345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-text","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64345","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=64345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}