David Koch says every position at Port Adelaide will be reviewed and the season will still be judged on whether the Power can make finals
Port Adelaide chairman David Koch turns up the heat on Ken Hinkley by declaring every Alberton position will be reviewed at season’s end.
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Every position at the club, including Ken Hinkley’s, will be reviewed at the end of the season Port Adelaide chairman David Koch says — as he reiterates that the Power’s 2019 campaign will be judged on whether they make finals.
The Power have now slumped to 10th following three losses in a row to leave them a win and percentage off a finals spot.
With only four rounds remaining, Koch said Port’s season would be judged on whether it finishes in the top eight.
“We’ve always said … that our pass or fail mark that we set ourselves is making the finals,” he said on FIVEaa.
“We’ve got to deliver that.
“Our members expect it and we expect it. We’re a club with a proud tradition of succeeding.”
Until they lost their last three matches to the Brisbane Lions, Richmond and GWS the Power and Hinkley — who has a contract until the end of 2021 — had frustrated fans with their inconsistent form from week-to-week.
Koch said all of this, and every position at Alberton, would be reviewed at the end of the season.
“We review everything at the end of year,” he said.
“This is the absolute honest answer to this — we review the entire club at the end of the year. “We reviewed the entire club at the end of last year, and we’ll be doing it again at the end of this year.”
The Power have blooded a raft of exciting youngsters, such as Connor Rozee and Xavier Duursma — as well as bringing in Ryan Burton for sending star playmaker Chad Wingard to Hawthorn.
Koch said the youthfulness of Port’s list would come into account but that wouldn’t be an excuse for failure if the Power do not make finals.
“Ken is the butt of all the criticism and he understands that,” he said.
“He’s the person who has to deliver the performances and get the team up to perform at their best and in charge of the quality and the discipline of the team. He accepts that fully.
“We’ll review it at the end of the year. We’re still one game out of the finals, as weird as that seems at the moment.”
Koch ruled out any coaching moves before the end of the year, despite the bounces Carlton, North Melbourne and St Kilda have had in 2019, saying “good clubs … don’t do that”.