When Ken Hinkley took over Port Adelaide, the club was a basket case.

Tarps covered empty seats, trying to offer physical cover for the fact they were barely getting 10,000 people to games. They parted ways with coach and club great Matthew Primus mid-year in 2012. Popular player John McCarthy died in a mishap on a footy trip to Las Vegas weeks before Hinkley was appointed.

Ken Hinkley leaves the........

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