Ken Hinkley

Ken Hinkley
Hinkley in April 2018
Personal information
Full name	Ken Hinkley
Date of birth	(1966-09-30) 30 September 1966
Place of birth	Camperdown, Victoria
Original team(s)	Camperdown
Height	185 cm (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	80 kg (176 lb)
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1987–1988	Fitzroy	011 (21)
1989–1995	Geelong	121 (58)
Total		132 (79)
Coaching career3
Years	Club	Games (W–L–D)
2013–	Port Adelaide	159 (88–71–0) 55.35%
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1995. 3 Coaching statistics correct as of Round 23, 2019.
Career highlights
AFLCA Coach of the Year 2013 1992 Carji Greeves Medallist 1983 Leading goalkicker HNFL
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Ken Hinkley (born 30 September 1966) is the senior coach of the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League and a former player with the Geelong Football Club and Fitzroy Football Club.

Playing career

Hinkley, recruited from Camperdown, started his league career as a forward at Fitzroy but played his best football with Geelong, where he was used as a rebounding defender. Hinkley walked out of Fitzroy in 1988 and asked for a clearance to Geelong. He stood out of football for the rest of 1988 season before being traded to Geelong for the 1989 season. A half back flanker in the 1991 and 1992 All-Australian teams, Hinkley also won a Carji Greeves Medal as Geelong's best and fairest player in the 1992 AFL season. In the same year he finished third at the Brownlow Medal count, behind winner Scott Wynd and Hawthorn's Jason Dunstall. He appeared in 12 finals with Geelong, including the 1992, 1994 and 1995 Grand Final losses.

Coaching career

Retiring after the 1995 AFL Grand Final, Hinkley joined Hampden Football League club Mortlake as coach, where he remained for three seasons. He then returned to Camperdown and steered his former club to back to back premierships in 1999 and 2000, the former as captain-coach. St Kilda acquired his services as an assistant coach in 2001 but the following year he took up the role of senior coach of Bell Park in the Geelong Football League and oversaw a premiership in 2003. He resumed his AFL coaching career in 2004, as an assistant to Mark Thompson at Geelong. At the end of the 2009 season, Hinkley was announced as an assistant at the new Gold Coast Suns Franchise. Hinkley has also interviewed for the Richmond, Geelong and St Kilda senior coach positions but was unsuccessful.

Port Adelaide Football Club (2013–present)

On 8 October 2012, Hinkley was announced as the senior coach of the Port Adelaide Football Club making him the first coach that has not been associated with the club before since Fos Williams. In his debut season, he led Port to 13 wins, which included an elimination final win at the MCG against Collingwood before being eliminated by Geelong in a close game a week later. This came to a surprise to many as Port Adelaide had only won eight games in the previous two seasons combined. For his impressive season, Hinkley was voted as the Coach of the Year by the AFL Coaches Association.

A year later, despite predictions by many that Port Adelaide would miss the finals, Hinkley led the club to a preliminary final finish; having finished the minor rounds in fifth place on the ladder, the Power defeated Richmond and Fremantle in their first two finals before losing to eventual premiers Hawthorn.

The Power disappointingly missed finals in 2015 and 2016 before returning in 2017, only to be eliminated in the first week in an intense Elimination Final against the West Coast Eagles which went all the way down to a kick after the siren in extra-time.

Hinkley's contract with Port Adelaide is set to expire at the end of the 2021 season, after extending his contract for another three years after 2018

Personal

Hinkley is the cousin of Geelong Cats player Gary Rohan.

Statistics

Playing statistics

Season	Team	No.	Games	Totals							Averages (per game)
				G	B	K	H	D	M	T	G	B	K	H	D	M	T
1987	Fitzroy	48	10	20	12	79	33	112	39	8	2.0	1.2	7.9	3.3	11.2	3.9	0.8
1988	Fitzroy	22	1	1	3	15	3	18	4	0	1.0	3.0	15.0	3.0	18.0	4.0	0.0
1989	Geelong	39	1	0	0	6	2	8	0	1	0.0	0.0	6.0	2.0	8.0	0.0	1.0
1990	Geelong	39	15	27	25	149	64	213	64	10	1.8	1.7	9.9	4.3	14.2	4.3	0.7
1991	Geelong	29	24	3	10	391	110	501	114	26	0.1	0.4	16.3	4.6	20.9	4.8	1.1
1992	Geelong	29	26	8	7	443	100	543	130	32	0.3	0.3	17.0	3.8	20.9	5.0	1.2
1993	Geelong	29	16	5	7	211	89	300	56	12	0.3	0.4	13.2	5.6	18.8	3.5	0.8
1994	Geelong	29	25	2	4	306	130	436	95	26	0.1	0.2	12.2	5.2	17.4	3.8	1.0
1995	Geelong	29	14	13	14	137	59	196	37	8	0.9	1.0	9.8	4.2	14.0	2.6	0.6
Career			132	79	82	1737	590	2327	539	123	0.6	0.6	13.2	4.5	17.6	4.1	0.9

Coaching statistics

Statistics are correct to the end of the 2017 season

Legend
W	Wins	L	Losses	D	Draws	W%	Winning percentage	LP	Ladder position	LT	League teams

Season	Team	Games	W	L	D	W %	LP	LT
2013*	Port Adelaide	23	13	10	0	56.5%	5	18
2014	Port Adelaide	25	16	9	0	64.0%	3	18
2015	Port Adelaide	22	12	10	0	54.6%	9	18
2016	Port Adelaide	22	10	12	0	45.5%	10	18
2017	Port Adelaide	23	14	9	0	60.9%	7	18
2018	Port Adelaide	22	12	10	0	54.5%	10	18
2019	Port Adelaide	22	11	11	0	50.0%	10	18
Career totals		159	88	71	0	55.4%

*Hinkley didn't coach the round 6, 2013 match due to sickness.

External links

• Ken Hinkley's playing statistics from AFL Tables
• Ken Hinkley at AustralianFootball.com
• The Age: Hinkley would give stereotype the boot
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