Port Adelaide Football Club

Founded in 1870, the Port Adelaide Football Club holds the title of the oldest senior football club in South Australia. It was one of the original members of the South Australian Football Association, which is now known as the SANFL. In 1997, it made history by becoming the first state league club outside of Victoria to join the Australian Football League.

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Hinkley: We're growing in confidence

1 week ago | portadelaidefc.com.au | Michelangelo Rucci

PORT ADELAIDE is building momentum again - eyeing three consecutive wins and the chance to level the ledger at 7-7. And the telling factor in the form change since the mid-season break is confidence - and the resulting rise in energy - in the pre-game work from the player squad. "Confidence grows ... and it grows quite quickly," notes Port Adelaide senior coach Ken Hinkley of the attitude and mood change at Alberton since the mid-season break. "It dropped away before the bye.
Hinkley on two rucks, debutant Liddy and the need for consistency

2 weeks ago | portadelaidefc.com.au | Michelangelo Rucci

PORT ADELAIDE starts a critical three-game home stand at Adelaide Oval on Sunday with a singular focus on dealing with Melbourne - and only Melbourne. "All we need to focus on is (Sunday's game) and our performance," Port Adelaide senior coach Ken Hinkley said at Adelaide Oval on Saturday morning. "We did that really well against GWS last week by narrowing our focus. "Best practice in this competition is to keep your focus narrowed and never look too far ahead ...
Carr: The team has "real intent about them"

2 weeks ago | portadelaidefc.com.au | Michelangelo Rucci

SOMETIMES - as Brisbane noted last season with its "dancing on ice" theme after a 4-1-6 start - you need to stare at impending disaster to change your destiny. For Port Adelaide midfield coach - and senior coach-in-waiting - Josh Carr, the attitude of the playing group on returning from the mid-season break with a 4-7 win-loss record told of a squad not wanting to waste a year. "We came back from the break with real intent and purpose in what we want to achieve," says Carr.
How Port Adelaide and Melbourne cast a path to the national competition

2 weeks ago | portadelaidefc.com.au | Michelangelo Rucci

BRIAN LUKE knows his coach Fos Williams took every game at Port Adelaide to heart. It was an attitude that rebuilt the soul of the Port Adelaide Football Club in the SANFL from 1950. In the VFL, the mirror image was Norm Smith at Melbourne. He too was not taking any game at any time as a gimmick.
Hinkley "confident" in group's capabilities

3 weeks ago | portadelaidefc.com.au | Michelangelo Rucci

"WE will never give up on the chase."As firm as Ken Hinkley was in starting as Port Adelaide senior coach in 2013 with his "We will never, ever give up" mantra, he remains resolute that his squad is not putting up any white flags after a tough first half to the AFL season. Port Adelaide resumes from its mid-season bye with Hinkley noting there is no margin for error - "none," he says - while the mathematics say there must be at least nine wins from the next 12 games to qualify for finals.
Port Adelaide mid-season review part 2

3 weeks ago | portadelaidefc.com.au | Michelangelo Rucci

CONTINUITY. If there is a buzz word in the AFL language today it is "continuity" - the theme of keeping a group of players together to develop familiarity, to embed a system of play ... Until recently, the simplest measure of such continuity was the "players used" count. The theory was: Less changes to a team line-up week by week, the more chance of success - more continuity, less disruption. It is more complicated today with the constant need to rotate the substitute in a 23-man line-up.
Port Adelaide mid-season review: Rounds 1 to 11

1 month ago | portadelaidefc.com.au | Michelangelo Rucci

PREPARE to work hard - harder than ever before. Port Adelaide is staring at the toughest hour it has known for more than a decade. The campaign to stay in the AFL finals race is on an edge, as it was for Brisbane at 4-1-6 before its premiership-winning run last season; and Sydney at 5-8 before it charged to the top eight in 2023. But the rebound will not just happen by looking at history. It will require hard, hard work.
Hinkley: Need to bring "great energy" for four quarters against Walyalup

1 month ago | portadelaidefc.com.au | Michelangelo Rucci

YARTAPUULTI has not won a last quarter of 10 this season - and at least breaking even with Walyalup is the non-negotiable demand at Perth Stadium in the second leg of Sir Doug Nicholls Round on Saturday night. "The results," says Yartapuulti senior coach Ken Hinkley, "say we need to be very sharp with what we are doing. Our last quarters are a great spot for us to start.
Battle of the Wharves: The story of the Dockland Trophy

1 month ago | portadelaidefc.com.au | Michelangelo Rucci

SOME rivalries take time to nurture. The Showdown spirit was alive well before the SA Brewing Company came up with a theme for Yartapuulti's derby battle across West Lakes Boulevard in 1997. And then there is this week's opponent: Walyalup, south of the River Swan in Perth - in that football rich territory that had 24 of the first 34 WAFL premierships take pride of place in Fremantle-based football clubs during the 20th century.
Hinkley: "We need to maximise every opportunity" in Geelong clash

1 month ago | portadelaidefc.com.au | Michelangelo Rucci

YARTAPUULTI has been an enigma this AFL season with the best and worst results from Ken Hinkley's team at extremes. And the fall-out from a five-point defeat in another classic Showdown has given clarity to exactly what is needed on Saturday in the home clash with Geelong. "We have further clarity on who we should be and what we should play like," senior coach Ken Hinkley said at Alberton on Wednesday. "The team we need to be has been clear to us for a long time.