A defiant Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley has referred to as for calm after his aspect’s dismal 84-point loss to Geelong within the qualifying closing at Adelaide Oval on Thursday night time.
Hinkley’s males kicked only one purpose after half time, as Geelong’s position gamers placed on a clinic to e book of their ninth preliminary closing in 14 years.
It has left query marks over Hinkley’s finals prowess, contemplating his aspect went out in straight units final season and have misplaced their final 4 finals.
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On prime of that, the Energy have misplaced seven of their final 10 finals appearances, leaving Hinkley with some critical doubts heading into one other semi closing.
However the below fireplace coach is refusing to throw the newborn out with the bathtub water.
“We won’t make wholesale modifications at the moment of yr. We simply haven’t got the personnel,” Hinkley mentioned publish match.
He additionally referred to as on followers to stay fats with the membership, who get a second likelihood in a house semi closing subsequent week.
“They (the followers) will not really feel any worse than us. We’d like them to stay with us and are available alongside and be right here to assist and assist us and imagine within the staff,” Hinkley mentioned.
“The staff have been attempting their arses off all by this yr to get thus far.
“We failed tonight. I am not going to spend one other second in, ‘we could not ship what we wanted to ship, we did not ship within the closing that we needed to ship in’.
“However we will study from it and we will work actually exhausting to interrupt by that barrier and provides ourselves one other likelihood.”
Energy ahead Charlie Dixon acquired bronx cheers from the Port Adelaide crowd, after a quiet efficiency that noticed him acquire solely three disposals within the loss.
Hinkley urged his fan base to do not forget that their ahead shares had been restricted, contemplating Todd Marshall, who wasn’t chosen, had solely performed restricted minutes over the previous two months.
“Remember Todd’s performed one sport and half a sport in eight weeks. We did not have Todd match and firing and enjoying a number of soccer,” Hinkley mentioned.
“We simply actually did not have all the alternatives that you really want in that house.”
Hinkley additionally tried to remind pissed off followers that the membership loses collectively, hoping these on the skin perceive that it is not solely his fault they could not get the win.
“It is about our teaching group and it is about our enjoying group. I get that it falls again to the pinnacle coach in some methods,” he mentioned.
“The fact is, we have at all times mentioned that that is all of us doing this, that is all of us attempting to attain one thing collectively.”
The Energy will play both the Western Bulldogs or Hawthorn of their house semi closing at Adelaide Oval subsequent weekend.