{"id":410194,"date":"2024-07-07T11:00:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=410194"},"modified":"2024-07-07T21:07:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T21:07:49","slug":"i-love-it-hinkley-butters-spat-labelled-healthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=410194","title":{"rendered":"'I love it': Hinkley, Butters spat labelled 'healthy'"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nathan Brown has lauded the tense bench interaction between Port Adelaide<\/a> coach \ufeffKen Hinkley<\/a> and his star midfielder Zak Butters.<\/p>\n

During\ufeff the Power's 48-point smashing of the Western Bulldogs at Adelaide Oval on Saturday, Butters and Hinkley exchanged words, with the vision picked up by cameras on the bench.<\/p>\n

Butters was dragged to the bench by Hinkley during the second term\ufeff, after he was seen wrestling with Bulldogs midfielder Tom Liberatore off the ball.<\/p>\n

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Hinkley was clearly unhappy with Butters losing focus, having a stern chat with him on the bench.<\/p>\n

The pair were seen exchanging harsh words and pointing at each other, before Hinkley walked away from the conversation.<\/p>\n

\"Jason<\/p>\n

When asked about it at half time, Butters played down the push and shove with Liberatore, not mentioning Hinkley's spray.<\/p>\n

"Just about a bit of stuff off ball. I'll let the AFL look at that," Butters said on Fox.<\/p>\n

Despite the exchange raising eyebrows\ufeff, Brown backed it in, lauding the way both player and coach care about their club.<\/p>\n

"If you're not having those sort of conversations at a footy club, you're doing it wrong," Brown said on Nine's Sunday Footy Show.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Ken<\/p>\n

"I think that is really healthy."<\/p>\n

Damien Barrett echoed Brown's thoughts.<\/p>\n

"The drama that he brings is intense at times, so is his coaching," Barrett said.<\/p>\n

"I reckon this is really healthy and I love it.<\/p>\n

\"Hinkley<\/p>\n

"They've both got each other's backs here. It's a really strong mentor and player relationship\ufeff."<\/p>\n

The midfielder was subbed off during the win, with the club noting he was simply managed.\ufeff<\/p>\n

Butters has been fined almost $15,000 this season alone for being involved in melees and off-the-ball acts.<\/p>\n

Across his career, he has racked up around $30,000 worth of fines.\ufeff<\/p>\n

He was not cited by the MRO for any involvements with Liberatore.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nathan Brown has lauded the tense bench interaction between Port Adelaide coach \ufeffKen Hinkley and his star midfielder Zak Butters. During\ufeff the Power's 48-point smashing […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":410196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=410194"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410200,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410194\/revisions\/410200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/410196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=410194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=410194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=410194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}