Coach Ken Hinkley has apologised to Port Adelaide supporters for bungling a choice on captain Connor Rozee’s health.
Rozee is about for a stint on the sidelines after the Power misplaced their gamble on his hamstring harm.
The skipper was unable to complete final Friday night time’s 10-point win towards St Kilda due to a hamstring concern.
While scans confirmed some harm, Rozee was declared match to face the Crows on Thursday night time – solely to once more be substituted at three quarter-time of Adelaide’s 12.6 (78) to five.18 (48) win.
“I apologise to our supporters for the decision that was made,” Hinkley mentioned.
“The decision was made collectively but I am in charge.
“And I set Connor as much as fail as a participant by the way in which he needed to carry out on the market.
“After halftime he couldn’t get to top speed and he was reluctant to kick.
“I made a mistake taking part in Connor Rozee … that was clear, it was apparent.
“I can try and hide behind it but I am not a coward when it comes to owning a mistake and that was what it was.”
Rozee will miss Port’s journey to Geelong to fulfill the unbeaten Cats subsequent Friday night time.
“It’s no worse but it’s the same issue,” Hinkley mentioned of Rozee’s harm
“Which would suggest to me that if he had the week off, he would be better the next week so.
“He thought he was completely proper to play … he was flat-out two days in a row, no issues in any respect.
“I watched him kick the ball from 60 metres, have shots at goal, I’ve seen all the things you needed to see.
“I ought to have recognized that or ought to have recognized that that was maybe going to occur.”
Key forwards Todd Marshall (ankle) and Mitch Georgiades (knee) also were hurt in the defeat to the Crows.
The loss came amid a horror stretch of goalkicking with Port’s 5.18 troubling coach Hinkley.
“We simply couldn’t convert,” he mentioned.
“They actuality is for us, that has been constant, now we have been falling down too usually in conversion.
“The facts are, we’re not scoring at the level that we need to.”
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