Ken Hinkley hopes Josh Carr will probably be Port Adelaide’s coach – however not simply but.
Hinkley is anticipated to quickly ink a contemporary contract to proceed as Power coach subsequent 12 months, his twelfth season on the helm.
And he’ll achieve this with Carr in his teaching field after his senior assistant dropped out of operating for the vacant Richmond head teaching job.
“He’s going to be a senior coach one day,” Hinkley stated of Carr.
“I would hope, and I do hope, one day it is at Port Adelaide.”
But Hinkley rubbished strategies of a succession plan with Carr.
“To have a succession plan you have got to have other things in place for a start,” Hinkley stated.
“I’d imagine there’d be a piece that needs to get done before anything like that happens,” he stated, referring to his personal looming contract extension.
“Everyone who thinks that Josh is going on a promise at Port Adelaide, they don’t know Josh Carr well enough.
“He’s acquired a dedication to us and I feel he has confirmed that that is actual.”
Carr played 207 AFL games for Port and Fremantle and, after retiring, was an assistant to Hinkley between 2011-15.
He spent the next four years as head coach of SANFL club North Adelaide, winning a premiership before joining Fremantle’s assistant coaching ranks from 2019-21.
The 43-year-old returned to Alberton to be Hinkley’s senior assistant this season.
“He goes to be an excellent coach in his personal proper,” Hinkley stated.
“He has been a very vital a part of what we have been ready to do that 12 months and I hope that he continues to construct.
“And 100 per cent, one day, Josh Carr will be a coach.”
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