{"id":122726,"date":"2025-02-12T09:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T23:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/?p=122726"},"modified":"2025-02-12T09:40:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T23:10:15","slug":"josh-carr-announced-as-hinkley-successor-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/josh-carr-announced-as-hinkley-successor-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Carr Announced As Hinkley Successor In 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ken Hinkley has told Port Adelaide he will step aside at the end of this season.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/the-fiveaa-sports-show\/rowey-timmy-g-podcast-11-february-2025\/embed?style=cover\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Rowey &#038; Timmy G Podcast - 11 February 2025\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Current assistant Josh Carr will take over as senior coach for season 2026 on an initial three-year contract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Port Adelaide chairman David Koch:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cKen has had open communications with the club over the pre-season and confirmed that 2025 would be his last season as senior coach of Port Adelaide,\u201d Mr Koch said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs is his way, Ken has put&nbsp;the club first&nbsp;in&nbsp;acknowledging&nbsp;we have a coach in waiting in Josh Carr who will be primed to lead the club in 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cKen is as enthusiastic and energised as ever and wants nothing more than for the club to be successful both here and now, and into the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWithout question, Ken is the senior coach for this season.&nbsp;Whilst Josh will be our senior coach in 2026, he&nbsp;remains focused on his role in supporting Ken in 2025&nbsp;and will be perfectly positioned to transition into the senior role at the end of the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur club is in a very fortunate position to have Ken continue to lead and coach our group this season, and&nbsp;to have&nbsp;Josh&nbsp;Carr, one of the most sought-after assistant coaches in the&nbsp;AFL,&nbsp;well prepared&nbsp;to take over in 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ken Hinkley has informed the club he will step aside at season\u2019s end and hand over to Josh Carr as senior coach in 2026.<br><br>\ud83d\udcdd <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2Ej5SMdUSs\">https:\/\/t.co\/2Ej5SMdUSs<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ii6Y2V97ca\">pic.twitter.com\/ii6Y2V97ca<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Port Adelaide FC (@PAFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PAFC\/status\/1889444301723021655?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 11, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Hinkley has told Port Adelaide he will step aside at the end of this season. Current assistant Josh Carr will take over as senior coach for season 2026 on an initial three-year contract. According to Port Adelaide chairman David Koch: \u201cKen has had open communications with the club over the pre-season and confirmed that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":122727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,143],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-122726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sport"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Josh Carr Announced As Hinkley Successor In 2026 - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/josh-carr-announced-as-hinkley-successor-in-2026\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Josh Carr Announced As Hinkley Successor In 2026\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ken Hinkley has told Port Adelaide he will step aside at the end of this season. 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