Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley has opened up on his unique pre-game address inside his circle of players ahead of the club’s inspiring 54-point win over Brisbane.

The Power stunned the Lions at Adelaide Oval in one of the most comprehensive performances in the opening round of the season,

Fox Footy’s AFL 360 showed vision of Hinkley in the centre of a huddle of Power players linked by arm, with the Port Adelaide boss revealing he wanted to drill home the importance of playing in front of the home fans — just the third time in Hinkley’s 10 seasons as coach they’ve played at home Round 1.

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“It was a little bit different for us. Normally, we’d pretty much just all get in together, but we don’t get circle up,” Hinkley said on AFL 360.

“I wanted to basically face all the players and be able to look at all of them, because when they’re all bunched up together, you don’t see all their faces.

“My reality for them was, you were going out to play at home, which was the first time this year. And you were going to bring people with you and bring them along and allow them to be passionate about the way they support us.

“We all had a responsibility to go out there and give them the energy to come and play so that we could ride their energy back and hopefully have a strong win.

“That was basically the information I delivered to them in that little moment.”

Trailing by 12 points at half-time, the Power ignited in the second half including kicking eight goals in a dominant third quarter — led by a new-look midfield of Connor Rozee, Zak Butters and Jason Horne-Francis — to take full control of the match.

And Port Adelaide star Ollie Wines revealed on SEN he copped a fierce spray from Hinkley during the main break.

“I remember it, I got a pretty good spray off Kenny. In my career, I haven’t had many real big ones but that one was a fair one,” Wines told SEN Breakfast.

“It was just down to a few sloppy free kicks and butchering the ball by foot going inside 50.

“Apart from that, not too much changed. We understood the position we were in the game, and statistically, we were doing a lot of things right, but our overall execution and converting on goal just wasn’t there.

“We were playing with not a lot of humility and we turned that around in the third quarter and got going.”

Asked if his reference to ‘not playing with humility’ suggested Hinkley thought the team got ahead of themselves, Wines responded: “Definitely in a way.

“There’s a certain amount of respect you’ve got to have for yourselves to go out there and do the things that are tough.

“Instances probably showed up in that first half where we weren’t there, but to our credit, we completely turned around in the second half and went away with it.”

Hinkley further explained on AFL 360 how he believes the team let itself down in the first half.

“We lost our way, we like to talk around humility a little bit at our footy club and we want to be the right type of people,” he said.

“We got lost in ourselves … we played some really strong footy in that first half. We missed some opportunities to score and we turned the game to a point where we’d lost the lead and we should never have done that.

“That was our own doing, so we had to own up to that.”