Port’s Ollie Wines subbed out of Hawthorn game with worrying heart issue

Port Adelaide’s gun midfielder has been subbed out of the clash with Hawthorn at quarter-time due to the return of a worrying issue.

Ollie Wines subbed out early against the Hawks. Photos: Getty Images

Port Adelaide gun midfielder Ollie Wines has been subbed out of his side’s clash with Hawthorn at quarter-time due to heart palpitations.

Wines had previously been diagnosed with a heart condition in 2022, exiting a game against Melbourne early in the season and taken to hospital due to a similar issue.

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“It’s more a heart rhythm issue that is pretty common in elderly people and elite athletes,” Wines said in 2022.

“Once it was explained to me it was very reassuring and there’s not too many long-term effects.”

Ollie Wines in the hands of Doctors on the bench during the clash against Hawthorn. (Photo by Sarah Reed/AFL Photos via Getty Images)

The 2021 Brownlow medallist had seven disposals in the first term of Sunday’s game against Hawthorn before being subbed out for Brandon Zerk-Thatcher.

Herald Sun reporter Jon Ralph on Fox Footy called it “worrying scenes” for Wines, but highlighted how the midfielder’s issue two years ago only caused him to miss one game.

“The heart issues he’s suffered since 2022 have seen him reassured by his cardiologist it’s not life threatening. It’s certainly not career threatening but doesn’t mean it’s not extremely scary when it happens to him,” Ralph said.

“We saw it in 2022 – he complained of heart palpitations, of dizziness and nausea. He only missed a single week then against Carlton and he returned against West Coast and had 33 possessions and a goal.

Ollie Wines has been subbed off with heart palpitations.

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“Medications did quickly get it under control – but he had to miss that week.

“I think the question here is not whether it jeopardises his career – it’s whether his misses against North Melbourne next week.

“It goes without saying this club will not risk him in any way.

“You think potentially he misses a week and then if he can get the tick off from his cardiologist it might be he’s back quite quickly – as worrying as this episode was today.”

Channel 7 boundary rider Mark Soderstrom suggested it’d be a “developing story”.

“I think the players can realise it’s happened before. Nathan Eagleton many years ago for Port Adelaide sort of collapsed on the ground,” he said on the live broadcast.

“I think the players know if they go into that irregular heartbeat.

“(Wines) can actually feel that right now and I think that’s what they are dealing with.”

Hawks and Port legend Shaun Burgoyne added: “That is a huge story.”

Originally published as Port’s Ollie Wines subbed out of Hawthorn game with worrying heart issue