After the siren: Wines leaves Port stranded on third base.

Ashley Browne may just be trying to ruffle some feathers, but it's interesting nonetheless ...

From everything I've heard with Ollie, he's a happy camper in the South-West but this will certainly spark some enquiries.

Wines at Melbourne and Toumpas at the Power?

#howitwasmeanttobe

That is interesting. What a pick up he would be. Not sure how a Wines trade would eventuate, but he'd be silly to not consider MFC - we are building a great young list. Just the thought of Viney, Brayshaw, Petracca and Wines in the one midfield - delivering the ball to Hogan lace out. Stuff of dreams.

It makes perfect sense to me!

Offer them a 3rd rounder.

So who should we take if available...Wines or Prestia?

I posted a few months ago in a thread I can't remember that Channel 10 here in Perth reported Wines was only thinking about a short term contract at the most.

I have no doubt that Ollie will not play with Port past the end of next season.

Will he be a Demon? 

Adding WInes would give us the best midfield in the comp in 3-4 years with the current trajectory

10 minutes ago, McQueen said:

I posted a few months ago in a thread I can't remember that Channel 10 here in Perth reported Wines was only thinking about a short term contract at the most.

I have no doubt that Ollie will not play with Port past the end of next season.

Will he be a Demon? 

That's a pretty big statement. I'm fairly confident he will play on with port. Of course he wants a short term contract, he's just turned 21 and would be well aware that by the time he turns 23/24 he could command a giant pay check. Which is precisely why Port want to lock him in long term. There's still a year to go on his contract, Ollie and Port will likely meet in the middle at some point during the year and he will re-sign. 

Edited December 19, 201510 yr by M C

17 minutes ago, rjay said:

So who should we take if available...Wines or Prestia?

Wines.

Both of them have shown the ability to be a force in the midfield, but Wines comes without the injury baggage.

1 minute ago, Wiseblood said:

Wines.

Both of them have shown the ability to be a force in the midfield, but Wines comes without the injury baggage.

   28 minutes ago,  rjay said: 

So who should we take if available...Wines or Prestia?

Whilst I agree with the rationale of Wiseblood regarding injury history, I suspect the GCSs will be easier to deal with than PP insomuch that I suspect that we might have already floated the idea of a future trade for Prestia when we traded picks recently. Maybe we could find ourselves in a position to trade for them both, after all, Collingwood secured both Trealoar and Aishe in the same trade period.

19 hours ago, rjay said:

So who should we take if available...Wines or Prestia?

Wines is a level above Prestia IMO. I think Prestia is overrated on Demonland. That isn't to say he isn't a good player - but he isn't the A-grader that he is made out to be.

1 hour ago, McQueen said:

I posted a few months ago in a thread I can't remember that Channel 10 here in Perth reported Wines was only thinking about a short term contract at the most.

I have no doubt that Ollie will not play with Port past the end of next season.

Will he be a Demon? 

Are you saying that a Channel 10 Report, has left you in no doubt that he will leave Port before 2017? 

1 hour ago, Redleg said:

Are you saying that a Channel 10 Report, has left you in no doubt that he will leave Port before 2017? 

You don't arrive at the same conclusion?

3 hours ago, rjay said:

So who should we take if available...Wines or Prestia?

3 hours ago, stevethemanjordan said:

After the siren: Wines leaves Port stranded on third base.

Ashley Browne may just be trying to ruffle some feathers, but it's interesting nonetheless ...

From everything I've heard with Ollie, he's a happy camper in the South-West but this will certainly spark some enquiries.

Wines at Melbourne and Toumpas at the Power?

#howitwasmeanttobe

Thanks for the post, but as someone from the real south-west (WA) I'm somewhat offended at your reference to Adelaide as the "south-west".  

In all seriousness though, I doubt that Wines will come to the Dees, unless we lose some of our own young guns (e.g. Brayshaw, CP5, Jesse), otherwise, how are we going to fit all these blokes in under the salary cap?  

Edited December 19, 201510 yr by leucopogon

16 minutes ago, leucopogon said:

 

In all seriousness though, I doubt that Wines will come to the Dees, unless we lose some of our own young guns (e.g. Brayshaw, CP5, Jesse), otherwise, how are we going to fit all these blokes in under the salary cap?  

Success will take care of that.

 

30 minutes ago, leucopogon said:

Thanks for the post, but as someone from the real south-west (WA) I'm somewhat offended at your reference to Adelaide as the "south-west".  

Talk about sweating the small stuff.

2 hours ago, McQueen said:

You don't arrive at the same conclusion?

Based solely on a TV News report, no I don't.

Just another "nothing" story. 

3 hours ago, Redleg said:

Based solely on a TV News report, no I don't.

Tongue in cheek is difficult to translate on the interweb.

Oh well.

I reckon Port see him as their next captain, i think he is just reluctant to sign an extension a couple of years out, much like Jesse.

If he doesn't sign with Port it will be Hawthorn. 

Just a wild guess!

5 hours ago, felixdacat said:

If he doesn't sign with Port it will be Hawthorn. 

Just a wild guess!

I suspect he'll remain at the Power, but I think we'd be a very good chance if he were to choose to leave.

1 minute ago, Good Times Grimes said:

I suspect he'll remain at the Power, but I think we'd be a very good chance if he were to choose to leave.

I don't understand why people hold this view. A number of posters who have spoken to Ollie have relayed back that he has no intention of ever coming here.

1 minute ago, Radar Detector said:

I don't understand why people hold this view. A number of posters who have spoken to Ollie have relayed back that he has no intention of ever coming here.

I'd be very surprised to ever see him leave Port Adelaide, but given his best friend (Jack) and his old footy mentor (Todd) are both at the MFC, you would think that having both of them in his ear might sway him if he were to decide to leave Alberton. We've got a solid young group of competitors, a good coach, play at the home of football and should be entering our window in a couple of years.

I can understand that he doesn't like the idea of playing for a club that "passed" on him, but most people at the club from that time are gone.