PORT ADELAIDE senior coach Ken Hinkley says the club continues to train at a high level and has done all year, despite inconsistent results this season.

Hinkley was frustrated by the narrative that his players went any harder than they normally would during Wednesday’s main training session because of the Round 17 loss to Brisbane.

“We have tried to keep everything consistent around the football club,” Hinkley told Sportsday SA on Wednesday evening.

“We train at a really high level - and I’ve seen the news tonight and there’s some carry on about our bash and crash at training.

“That’s so uneducated because you haven’t watched our training every other day, and if you have you would see we train the same way.

“We make something out of nothing and blow it up because it suits the result. We don’t work to the result. We work to improve every day.”

Hinkley admits the constant media speculation takes its toll on him personally, but he also understands how big the industry has become and its importance to the game.

“Absolutely I do. I’m not bulletproof,” he said

“I’m doing my best and the club is doing their best together, and we won’t ever fall away from that.

“You do get a bit bemused at times - you’ve seen over the last 24 hours exactly what the football world is like.

“It’s an opinion-based business from outside the fence and it’s a performance-based business from inside the fence.”

Hinkley’s frustration was clear when discussing the coverage of departed St Kilda coach Alan Richardson, who resigned as coach of the Saints - the third coach to lose their job this season.

“Alan Richardson - a good friend of mine - lost his job,” he said.

“I think there was six months of calling for his head from media. In the last 24 hours all I’ve read his how good a bloke Richo is and how good he is at coaching.

“I get confused about how you can sit on one side of the fence and then jump on the other as soon as it works.

“I think that is really poor and sloppy journalism.”