Ollie Wines
Wines playing for Port Adelaide in June 2018
Personal information
Full name Oliver Wines
Date of birth (1994-10-07) 7 October 1994 (age 29)
Place of birth Echuca, Victoria
Original team(s) Bendigo Pioneers (TAC Cup)/Echuca Football Club
Draft No. 7, 2012 national draft
Debut Round 1, 2013, Port Adelaide vs. Melbourne, at the MCG
Height 190 cm (6 ft 3 in)
Weight 99 kg (218 lb)
Position(s) Midfielder
Club information
Current club Port Adelaide
Number 16
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
2013– Port Adelaide 228 (93)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of = 2023.
Career highlights
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Oliver Wines (born 7 October 1994) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Wines received a nomination for the 2013 AFL Rising Star award in Round 1 of the 2013 season, his debut match. He served as Port Adelaide co-captain in the 2019 season. Wines' standout 2021 season earned him a Brownlow Medal with a record-tying 36 votes (a record shared with Dustin Martin's 2017 tally).

Early life

Wines played his junior football at the Echuca Football Club and for the Bendigo Pioneers in the TAC Cup before being drafted by Port Adelaide in the 2012 AFL Draft. Wines attended Goulburn Valley Grammar School, in Shepparton. Wines' great uncle was Clinton Wines, who played 39 games for Carlton during the 1940s, including the 1945 VFL premiership.[1] As a kid, Wines would often call into Rex Hunt's talk back radio show on 3AW where he would ask questions about Andrew Walker's statistics.[2]

AFL career

Prior to the 2012 AFL draft, Wines was predicted to go to the Melbourne Football Club along with Jack Viney, his best friend who attended the same primary school at Echuca and was already a father–son selection pick with Melbourne.[3] Instead, he was overlooked by Melbourne and was drafted by Port Adelaide with their first selection, pick seven, in the 2012 national draft.[4] He made his AFL debut in the opening round of the 2013 AFL season at the Melbourne Cricket Ground against Melbourne, which also featured his best friend, Jack Viney. Port Adelaide won the game by 79 points. In an impressive debut, Wines finished the game with 24 disposals including 16 contested possessions and one goal,[5] earning him the Round 1 nomination for the 2013 AFL Rising Star.[6] He ended up finishing third in the Rising Star with 26 votes.[7]

Wines had a strong season in 2014 with thoughts that he may have been subject to the second year blues dispelled in Round 1 as he achieved career bests in many categories in Round 1 against Carlton—twenty-eight disposals, two goals, and nine tackles. He played in every game for the club primarily as an inside midfielder. In the finals, he averaged twenty-three disposals and kicked five goals across three games. At season's end, he placed equal sixth in the club's best and fairest and won his second consecutive Gavin Wanganeen medal as Port's best player under 21.

After a stunning first two seasons, Wines' 2015 season was interrupted. He started the season strongly, averaging 28 disposals and a goal across the first two games before injuring his wrist in Round 2 against North Melbourne, sidelining him for a month. Wines returned to the side and quickly picked up where he had left off as Port's big-bodied inside midfield having a best on ground performance against the Western Bulldogs in Round 10 and Collingwood in Round 15. He received the three Brownlow Medal votes in both those games. Unfortunately for Wines, his season came to a premature end in Round 18 when he dislocated his shoulder early against St Kilda, requiring a full reconstruction.

In February 2019, Wines was announced as one of the club's first-ever co-captains, alongside Tom Jonas. While traditionally the club's captain would wear the no. 1 guernsey during their captaincy, because there was more than one captain, the no. 1 guernsey was retired, and Wines retained his no. 16 guernsey.[8][9] Wines was made vice-captain in 2020, with Jonas assuming sole responsibility for the captaincy.

Wines endured a frustrating 2019 season, with an injury-interrupted pre-season occurred due to a shoulder operation as a result of a waterskiing incident over the Australia Day weekend. He returned from his shoulder injury in Round 3 of the 2019 AFL season with 19 disposals and a goal against the Brisbane Lions. Following a fracture in his fibula against the Pies in Round 7, Wines missed a further 7 games and returned in Round 14 to play another 3 in a row. He managed to play 12 games in 2019 and averaged 24.7 disposals. His 2021 season was outstanding, leading to him being awarded the 2021 Brownlow medal.

Statistics

Statistics are correct to the end of the 2022 season.[10]
Legend
  G  
 Goals
  K  
 Kicks
  D  
 Disposals 
  T  
 Tackles
  B  
 Behinds 
  H  
 Handballs 
  M  
 Marks
  ±  
 Won that season's 
Brownlow Medal
Season Team No. Games Totals Averages (per game) Votes
G B K H D M T G B K H D M T
2013 Port Adelaide 16 24 8 10 215 236 451 80 93 0.3 0.4 9.0 9.8 18.8 3.3 3.9 1
2014 Port Adelaide 16 25 14 13 251 358 609 71 124 0.6 0.5 10.0 14.3 24.4 2.8 5.0 5
2015 Port Adelaide 16 13 4 2 149 169 318 23 56 0.3 0.2 11.5 13.0 24.5 2.7 5.2 6
2016 Port Adelaide 16 22 11 13 262 314 576 63 128 0.5 0.6 11.9 14.3 26.2 2.9 5.8 11
2017 Port Adelaide 16 23 15 16 284 344 628 79 117 0.7 0.7 12.3 15.0 27.3 3.4 5.1 18
2018 Port Adelaide 16 22 4 9 269 305 574 72 111 0.2 0.4 12.2 13.9 26.1 3.3 5.0 14
2019 Port Adelaide 16 12 7 4 135 168 303 41 59 0.6 0.3 11.3 14.0 25.3 3.4 4.9 6
2020[a] Port Adelaide 16 17 8 5 177 194 371 30 64 0.5 0.3 10.4 11.4 21.8 1.8 3.8 10
2021 Port Adelaide 16 24 10 15 362 415 777 100 105 0.4 0.6 15.1 17.3 32.4 4.2 4.4 36±
2022 Port Adelaide 16 21 6 11 264 332 596 84 84 0.3 0.5 12.6 15.8 28.4 4.0 4.0 13
Career 203 87 98 2368 2835 5203 655 953 0.4 0.5 11.7 14.0 25.6 3.2 4.7 120

Notes

  1. ^ The 2020 season was played with 17 home-and-away matches per team (down from 22) and 16-minute quarters with time on (down from 20-minute quarters with time on) due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Honours and achievements

Team

Individual

References

  1. ^ Edmund, Sam (14 October 2019). "Carlton was approached to consider a shock trade for Port Adelaide skipper Ollie Wines". Herald Sun. Retrieved 20 September 2011.
  2. ^ Stevenson, Ross; Howcroft, Russell (20 September 2021). "Brownlow medallist Ollie Wines reveals his link to 3AW as a youngster". 3AW963 News Talk. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
  3. ^ Sam Landsberger and Jay Clark (21 November 2012) Demons deny Jack Viney his dream as they opt for late change with Jimmy Toumpas in draft selection. Herald Sun
  4. ^ "Ace Power recruit Ollie Wines ready for battle". Adelaidenow. Retrieved 13 December 2012.
  5. ^ Hanlon, Peter (1 April 2013). "Bad from the word go".
  6. ^ "Wines the round one rising star". AFL BigPond Network. 2 April 2013. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  7. ^ "Crouch runner-up in Rising Star". afc.com.au. 4 September 2013.
  8. ^ Gaskin, Lee (21 February 2019). "Hinkley urges fans to back controversial captaincy decision". afl.com.au. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
  9. ^ "Jonas and Wines partner to lead Port into the future". portadelaidefc.com.au. 21 February 2019. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
  10. ^ "Ollie Wines". AFL Tables. Retrieved 7 April 2019.

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