Potential Port Adelaide captain Ollie Wines suffers water skiing injury

Port Adelaide is sweating on scans to determine the extent of a shoulder injury suffered by midfielder and leading captaincy candidate Ollie Wines while water skiing on the weekend.

Port Adelaide is sweating on scans to determine the extent of a shoulder injury suffered by midfielder and leading captaincy candidate Ollie Wines while water skiing on the weekend.

The Power on Sunday night confirmed Wines hurt his shoulder while skiing near Mannum on the Murray River about an hour from Adelaide on Saturday afternoon.

Wines was at training at Alberton Oval on Monday morning, running laps without strapping.

Wines will have scans later this week and while Port Adelaide says it will not make any further comment until they are done, club legend Kane Cornes on Sunday night described the injury as “significant” on Twitter.

Ollie Wines has suffered significant shoulder injury whilst skiing over the weekend. Club to scan him this week to determine severity. Tune into to @1629senSA from 6am tomorrow for further details.

— Kane Cornes (@kanecornes) January 27, 2019

Wines had a shoulder reconstruction in 2015 and did not play after Round 18.

The 24-year-old grew up on the river at Echuca in Victoria and is a regular on the water during his time away from the football club. But if this setback requires surgery Wines could miss a significant amount of football.

Wines had put in a strong pre-season, looking lean and leading the way with his running during Port’s pre-season camp in Noosa in December and leading by example with his voice on and off the field as his captaincy credentials grew. He has been widely tipped to take over from Travis Boak either on his own or in a co-captaincy arrangement with defender Tom Jonas.

Ollie Wines was injured in a water skiing accident. Picture: AAP

He has been Boak’s vice-captain since 2017 and last season re-signed with Port Adelaide until the end of 2022 - resisting the lure of a Victorian homecoming and big money offers tabled by rival clubs.

The tough midfielder has played 129 games since debuting in 2013 and has not missed a game for the past three years in a sign of his ultra-durability given his body acts as a battering ram in games.

The last time he spent a significant time on the sidelines was in 2015 when he injured his wrist in April and then dislocated his shoulder in August, requiring a reconstruction, and did not play after Round 18.

The Power is tipped to name Boak’s replacement as skipper in the next three weeks before it opens its JLT Series campaign against Adelaide in Port Pirie on March 2.

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