Gold Coast will make a call to Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley as search for senior coach ramps up

GOLD Coast will sound out Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley to fill the Suns’ vacant senior coaching job. But what does Power president David Koch think of this?

Ken Hinkley is on the Gold Coast’s radar. Picture: Sarah Reed

GOLD Coast will sound out Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley to fill the Suns’ vacant senior coaching job.

Hinkley is contracted to the Power for next season and is expected to be offered a new deal keeping him at Alberton until the end of 2020.

Port president David Koch on Monday said the offer would be made at a time that suits Hinkley.

But the Gold Coast will move this week to contact Hinkley’s management.

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Hinkley was an assistant coach at the AFL expansion club from 2010 until the end of 2012.

“I don’t know why there is this talk about Ken going to the Gold Coast because he has got another year at least to go on his contract,” Koch told 5AA radio.

“Over the summer we will talk to him about extending that.”

Ken Hinkley is on the Gold Coast’s radar. Picture: Getty Images

Koch came under fire for questioning the team’s selection in the hours after Saturday night’s heartbreaking two-point elimination final loss to West Coast.

The Suns will this week ramp up their search for a replacement for Rodney Eade with up to eight candidates to be interviewed.

Carlton stoppages coach John Barker and Sydney assistant Stuart Dew head a field that will be reduced to two or three second-round interviews.

The Suns hope to name their new coach in the week after the AFL Grand Final.

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