SENIOR COACH Ken Hinkley has praised the support his team received from the crowd during Sunday’s win over Gold Coast at Adelaide Oval.

With dark clouds looming ominously over Adelaide during the morning and the skies opening up and soaking the oval throughout the afternoon, it was a match that tested the endurance of all in attendance.

“I think if I had looked at the weather forecast, I wouldn’t have turned up,” Hinkley said in his post-game press conference.

“26,000 people at Port (vs Gold Coast) and nearly 60,000 members, they turn up because we want to play the way they want us to play.

“We don’t always get it right. I hear that from them occasionally. But more often than not, the support is amazing.”

Hinkley was also full of praise for his team and their willingness to also brave the conditions and play the aggressive and daring brand of football Port Adelaide supporters have come to love and expect.

“I thought our willingness to be bold early cost us a couple of goals, that’s to be clear,” he said.

“We’re not going to stop doing that. We are going to keep taking that game on.”

“What you’ve got to remember, when your method is nice and strong for us - we believe we’ve got some significant depth on our list this year - I think the method we try and play is ingrained in our players.

“We’ve seen earlier this year - teams do that to us with some players missing - Richmond I use as an example.

“For us today, I think we did something similar, we stuck at the method we like to play. “I’ve thought this for a while, I think our list is really developing well.

“It’s not always going to provide wins but I’m really confident we have a list that’s going in the right direction, and the direction of being a good side not just an okay side.”