“I let myself down”: Remorseful Hinkley addresses post-match altercation with Hawthorn skipper

Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley has fronted up to the media after his post-game altercation with the Hawthorn Football Club.

Tensions boiled over between Hinkley and James Sicily with the Hawks skipper taking umbrage to Hinkley’s verbal tirade on Jack Ginnivan who started the fire earlier in the week with comments Hinkley described as “disrespectful”.

The veteran coach says he regrets the altercation and wishes to apologise to the Hawks.

“Clearly I’m disappointed,” Hinkley told SEN's Crunch Time.

“I let myself down and I let the club down and I shouldn’t of done what I did after the game, the emotional stuff got to me a little bit too much but as I said last night, I apologise and I wish that hadn’t happened and the game gets you sometimes.

“There’s an incident that didn’t need to happen, I was going over with the right intentions to show respect to Luke Bruest who has been a great player and unfortunately it took me closer to where I needed to be to be honest and that’s just the reality of what happened.

“It was obviously a little return of what had happened during the week but I should be better than that.

“I know Sam Mitchell and the Hawthorn Football Club are disappointed, I appreciate and understand why they would be and I just hope at some point that the game is allowed to be seen for what it was and that was a great game.”

For the full chat, listen to the full interview with Hinkley, Gerard Whateley, Dermot Brereton and Mark Bickley.