Port Adelaide open their 2013 AFL campaign in style, demolishing the Demons by 79-points at the MCG.
OLIVER Wines is a blessing for the "new" Port Adelaide Football Club.
At a time when there is new hope at Alberton, it also needs new heroes.
And the 18-year-old Victorian country boy is the old-fashioned type of the old Port Adelaide, the one new coach Ken Hinkley wants to respect and revive.
Wines is the AFL's first 2013 nomination for its Rising Star award, having earned that honour after living up to the cult status he has found at Alberton in his first pre-season.
His way of playing is everything the old and new Port Adelaide loves.
Rising Star Award nominee Oliver Wines with Plympton Primary School Year 7 students James and Victoria. Picture: Tricia Watkinson.
As a calling card, it is as true to the Port Adelaide mantra as any Power player can go about his business.
No number is more significant from Wines' debut on Easter Sunday than his AFL-record 16 contested possessions on debut (a mark he shares with good friend, Melbourne midfielder Jack Viney, in the same game).
But for all the solid foundations Wines has put down from his first AFL pre-season and first premiership match, there is still much the first-round draftee wants to build on his game.
Adelaide makes the switch to digital TV, an Adelaide Metro bus hits a stobie pole in Gilles Plains and Ports Ollie Wines wins the AFL's rising star nomination for round one
"I still think my spread from stoppages (needs to improve)," Wines said, recognising half the battle is to win the ball while the full mission is to move it on cleanly. "I've always tried to work on that and I've been working on that at training.
"That has been a bit of a deficiency of mine and I want to strengthen that so I can add another string to my bow."
As proof that the teenager is both physically and mentally mature for AFL football, Wines yesterday described his award nomination as "flattering".
He is not easy to knock off the contest or his focus.
"I kept a pretty level head," Wines said of his approach to Easter Sunday's season-opener against Melbourne at the game's biggest stage, the MCG.
"I don't really read a lot of media, so I keep out of that.
"I played my natural game - and I was lucky enough to be nominated (for the AFL rookie of the year award).
"It (AFL) is a lot quicker than anything I have been used to; it took another step up from NAB Cup footy," added Wines, conceding his solid body has needed two days to recover from the contest on Sunday.
"To play my first game on the MCG was really special, so I cherished the game and really enjoyed it.
"And it was awesome to come out of it with a win."
OLIVER WINES
Age: 18
Recruited from: Echuca (Vic), Bendigo U18
Drafted: Pick 7, 2012 NAB AFL National Draft
Position: Inside midfielder
Debut: Round one 2013 v Melbourne (MCG)
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