Outgoing Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley has not ruled out an immediate return to football, saying he still has the energy to be involved in the game.<\/p>\n
But Hinkley told 3AW on Saturday he had not spoken to Carlton about the possibility of filling the Blues\u2019 vacant football manager role alongside his former assistant Michael Voss.<\/p>\n
Hinkley has two more games in charge of the Power after 13 years at the helm, including Saturday\u2019s clash against the Blues at Marvel Stadium.<\/p>\n
His assistant Josh Carr will take over from next season.<\/p>\n
While his name has been linked to the Carlton football department role and a similar position with the Tasmanian Devils, Hinkley said he would wait until the season\u2019s end before having conversations about his future.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t need a long spell, because that\u2019s me … but I don\u2019t need to rush either … we are really entrenched in Adelaide, we love Adelaide,\u201d Hinkley said.<\/p>\n
Hinkley denied that the year-long handover to Carr had contributed to Port\u2019s disappointing season. The Power finished last year\u2019s home-and-away season in second place.<\/p>\n
He said he still wanted to be involved in football but the 58-year-old intimated that age was against him in regard to landing another coaching role.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d like to take his [Fagan\u2019s] record as the oldest premiership coach,\u201d he joked.<\/p>\n
New Carlton CEO Graham Wright announced during the week that the Blues were parting ways with football manager Brad Lloyd.<\/p>\n
Hinkley said it was possible for a former coach to work in a new role under a former assistant coach.<\/p>\n
\u201cMe and Vossy get on great,\u201d he said. \u201cI think they (the positions) are manageable.<\/p>\n
\u201cIs it realistic? Probably not.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Outgoing Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley has not ruled out an immediate return to football, saying he still…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-71764","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\/71764","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=71764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}