PORT ADELAIDE’S on-field performances this AFL season tested everyone’s patience — so does the documentary, Inside — The story of Port Adelaide, 2016.

But, true to Power coach Ken Hinkley’s mantra of “never give in”, those who have the stomach to re-live Port Adelaide’s disappointing 10-12 season in the first 42 minutes of the documentary are rewarded in the final two minutes.

The final team meeting at Alberton, days after the home-and-away season ended on the Gold Coast, reveals how Hinkley and his football department has run out of patience with his current player group after missing AFL finals in consecutive years.

“We have worked out who you are,” Hinkley says standing in the team meeting room at Power headquarters at Alberton.

Port Adelaide chief executive Keith Thomas then stands before a whiteboard where (unseen to the viewer) the non-negotiable demands on the Power players are listed. The club boss declares the players have to make up their minds if they are up to meeting these standards.

“If not, it does not mean you are bad people,” Thomas says. “But it does mean you will be unsuccessful.”

The message is clear. Port Adelaide will not tolerate mediocrity — and there will be change at Alberton, as to be highlighted in next month’s trade period when the Power will put a 13-player “trade bait” list before its 17 AFL rivals.

These two minutes are the equivalent to the most memorable moment of last year’s documentary — the team meeting in Brisbane last year hours after the damaging loss to the Lions at the Gabba. But the finale to this season’s documentary is brutal, particularly for the “body language” that radiates from Hinkley as he declares: “We have worked out who you are ...”

This year’s 44-minute documentary — the second in a series — has two clear themes. First, there is the week-by-week, game-by-game look at a season that never finds any momentum for the Power. Crammed into 42 minutes, this highlights how “lost” Port Adelaide has become in its football.

Second, there is the revealing look at how Hinkley works through ever-changing agendas to inspire, challenge, demand, educate, admonish ... and, ultimately, confront the Power players with the reality they have run out of time to make their mark at Alberton. It is a telling mirror on the torment an AFL coach endures.

The documentary is the work of the Power’s in-house cinematographer Julian Hatch. His full account of Port Adelaide’s season will be released on the club’s website at 2pm Sunday.

The edited 44-minute version will premiere on Fox Footy at 8.30 tonight and on free-to-air television with Channel Seven at 1pm on Sunday in the lead-up to the SANFL grand final telecast.

SCREENING TIMES

Channel Seven: Sunday, 1pm. Fox Footy Channel: 8.30pm tonight/on repeat cycle this week; Extended version on Port Adelaide website, 2pm Sunday.

7Mate: Friday, September 30, 5pm.

michelangelo.rucci@news.com.au