Rumour Ollie Wines Is Coming Home

[Demon 16]

This seems legit

 

[schmuttt]

I'm waiting for the Port board to start 'Rumour - Hogan desperate to go home, but he'll settle for halfway and come to Port'.

Seriously this is a garbage thread and the 'rumour' should have been posted in the 2016 trade/FA thread anyway.

 

[Benwah83]

This rumour lacks vague riddles.

This rumor also lacks caravans.

Consulting the algorithm:

The algorithm yields an uncertain result - although the Dez! card hasn't been played yet.

Of course, if you rate him as an A grader (which he arguably is), then:

 

[Topkent]

Brilliant

 

[Dory_77]

Maybe this is why we've been trading in Dawes, Lamumba, Melksham etc. Roos knew we were giving up our 2016 first rounder, so we needed some trade currency to get Ollie home. 3 spuds = 1 gun right? Might throw in our 4th rounder as steak knives. Bookmark this post for October.

 

[Gysberts2Bate]

Maybe this is why we've been trading in Dawes, Lamumba, Melksham etc. Roos knew we were giving up our 2016 first rounder, so we needed some trade currency to get Ollie home. 3 spuds = 1 gun right? Might throw in our 4th rounder as steak knives. Bookmark this post for October.

Melksham > Wines, he has the outside nous we need.

 

[Sprout]

Wines is a Port player. Until it's clear that he is on the move, that should be respected. Close thread.

 

[LeverPuller]

 

[wowlace]

I don't think I'm strong enough for this rumour

Not even worth the energy, a total nonstarter imo. He may be leaving port, but it certainly won't be to the MFC. Hawthorn will my pick if it happens.

 

[Decimation]

IT WAS shaping as the best Christmas ever for Port Adelaide, with Travis Boak, Robbie Gray and Chad Wingard each committing to new deals with the club on the very eve of the festive season.

They swung for the fences, the Power, in terms of their contract extensions, but in the end they didn't quite get there, with Ollie Wines putting off his negotiations to next year.

So now they're stuck at third base and that feeling of dread engulfs the Power, the same as that experienced by Geelong in 2011, Hawthorn in 2013 and Adelaide last season as a big name player seems poised to walk out the door.

Only in the case of Wines, it doesn't appear anywhere near as obvious that he might leave. He's from Victoria, but from rural Echuca, so there is no obvious homecoming to Melbourne and one of the nine clubs based there.

His body of work as a tough, inside midfielder over 62 games in three years is impressive and you would imagine each of those clubs – not to mention every other club as well – will be crunching the numbers furiously to see how he would fit in their salary structure going forward.

Hawthorn will head the speculation, because, well, the Hawks are now linked to every big name free agent. It also makes sense because generational change is coming to the Hawthorn midfield in the next 12 months. Wines would be perfect.

And then there's Melbourne, where he would join best mate Jack Viney, and to where he should have been drafted in the first place. Indeed, the man the Demons took instead with pick No.4 in 2012, Jimmy Toumpas, has joined Wines at Alberton Oval for next season.

But the hope and the expectation is that he remains at Port Adelaide. Never mind the hiccup this year, it has been exciting to watch Port's ascension under Ken Hinkley, from the tarp-covered seating bays at AAMI Stadium to the sell-outs at Adelaide Oval, and the run-and-gun game-plan he has brought the club.

The other consideration for Wines is that he shapes as a future captain. The dollars on offer will be dazzling for Wines, but the smarter decision will be to stay put.

 

[Demon 16]

IT WAS shaping as the best Christmas ever for Port Adelaide, with Travis Boak, Robbie Gray and Chad Wingard each committing to new deals with the club on the very eve of the festive season.

They swung for the fences, the Power, in terms of their contract extensions, but in the end they didn't quite get there, with Ollie Wines putting off his negotiations to next year.

So now they're stuck at third base and that feeling of dread engulfs the Power, the same as that experienced by Geelong in 2011, Hawthorn in 2013 and Adelaide last season as a big name player seems poised to walk out the door.

Only in the case of Wines, it doesn't appear anywhere near as obvious that he might leave. He's from Victoria, but from rural Echuca, so there is no obvious homecoming to Melbourne and one of the nine clubs based there.

His body of work as a tough, inside midfielder over 62 games in three years is impressive and you would imagine each of those clubs – not to mention every other club as well – will be crunching the numbers furiously to see how he would fit in their salary structure going forward.

Hawthorn will head the speculation, because, well, the Hawks are now linked to every big name free agent. It also makes sense because generational change is coming to the Hawthorn midfield in the next 12 months. Wines would be perfect.

And then there's Melbourne, where he would join best mate Jack Viney, and to where he should have been drafted in the first place. Indeed, the man the Demons took instead with pick No.4 in 2012, Jimmy Toumpas, has joined Wines at Alberton Oval for next season.

But the hope and the expectation is that he remains at Port Adelaide. Never mind the hiccup this year, it has been exciting to watch Port's ascension under Ken Hinkley, from the tarp-covered seating bays at AAMI Stadium to the sell-outs at Adelaide Oval, and the run-and-gun game-plan he has brought the club.

The other consideration for Wines is that he shapes as a future captain. The dollars on offer will be dazzling for Wines, but the smarter decision will be to stay put.

Did you write this Decimation?

 

[schmuttt]

Did you write this Decimation?

Its a quote from the article about it.

 

[Dr Whoooooooo]

IT WAS shaping as the best Christmas ever for Port Adelaide, with Travis Boak, Robbie Gray and Chad Wingard each committing to new deals with the club on the very eve of the festive season.

They swung for the fences, the Power, in terms of their contract extensions, but in the end they didn't quite get there, with Ollie Wines putting off his negotiations to next year.

So now they're stuck at third base and that feeling of dread engulfs the Power, the same as that experienced by Geelong in 2011, Hawthorn in 2013 and Adelaide last season as a big name player seems poised to walk out the door.

Only in the case of Wines, it doesn't appear anywhere near as obvious that he might leave. He's from Victoria, but from rural Echuca, so there is no obvious homecoming to Melbourne and one of the nine clubs based there.

His body of work as a tough, inside midfielder over 62 games in three years is impressive and you would imagine each of those clubs – not to mention every other club as well – will be crunching the numbers furiously to see how he would fit in their salary structure going forward.

Hawthorn will head the speculation, because, well, the Hawks are now linked to every big name free agent. It also makes sense because generational change is coming to the Hawthorn midfield in the next 12 months. Wines would be perfect.

And then there's Melbourne, where he would join best mate Jack Viney, and to where he should have been drafted in the first place. Indeed, the man the Demons took instead with pick No.4 in 2012, Jimmy Toumpas, has joined Wines at Alberton Oval for next season.

But the hope and the expectation is that he remains at Port Adelaide. Never mind the hiccup this year, it has been exciting to watch Port's ascension under Ken Hinkley, from the tarp-covered seating bays at AAMI Stadium to the sell-outs at Adelaide Oval, and the run-and-gun game-plan he has brought the club.

The other consideration for Wines is that he shapes as a future captain. The dollars on offer will be dazzling for Wines, but the smarter decision will be to stay put.

Ollie has been offered some seriously big dollars - the multi-million dollar question is will he take it?

Sometimes these type of deals only come along once in a lifetime, in 2015 you have to think of your family and your future first. Then you must consider playing in the ultimate ... a grand-final.

Form there on in ... the rest is just spin. Spin if you keep him - spin if you lose him.

 

[Schulzenfest]

Ollie Wines is coming home - big rumour ( not from the MFC ) a decision is very close to being made.

Huge factors will be salary cap space, supportive culture - Ollie will nominate so the other club must be prepared to deal.

He's coming home, is he? Great news for the Echuca Football Club. Not sure why it's on the Melbourne board though?

 

[Topkent]

He's coming home, is he? Great news for the Echuca Football Club. Not sure why it's on the Melbourne board though?

Maybe we are relocating

 

[Doctor Feel]

He's coming home, is he? Great news for the Echuca Football Club. Not sure why it's on the Melbourne board though?

You just couldn't resist, could you?

 

[Sprout]

Flood of Port Adelaide supporters in 3 2 1....

...0

 

[Gysberts2Bate]

He's coming home, is he? Great news for the Echuca Football Club. Not sure why it's on the Melbourne board though?

There it is.

 

[Demon 16]

He's coming home, is he? Great news for the Echuca Football Club. Not sure why it's on the Melbourne board though?

Don't fret mate, we all know this thread is in jest.

 

[El Zorro]

He's coming home, is he? Great news for the Echuca Football Club. Not sure why it's on the Melbourne board though?

oh, man! I was doing my best to ignore the thread and you had to post!

 

[El Zorro]

This rumor also lacks caravans.

Consulting the algorithm:

The algorithm yields an uncertain result - although the Dez! card hasn't been played yet.

Of course, if you rate him as an A grader (which he arguably is), then:

This is brilliant though.

 

[PerfectFooty]

We have nothing to offer port, Bigger teams are interested, Port intent on keeping him. Take your pick, its not happening and the fact that we as melbourne supporters say it's because he was mates with Viney is like Freo supporters saying Hogan wore a scarf once

 

[Proper Gander]

Thread is embarrassing. Embarrassing. Thread.

 

[PerfectFooty]

Thread is embarrassing. Embarrassing. Thread.

Yep agreed. Embarrassed right in front of the Port supporters as well now.

When we gonna start the presita thread?

 

[Proper Gander]

Yep agreed. Embarrassed right in front of the Port supporters as well now.

When we gonna start the presita thread?

Don't give anyone ideas. I would have thought the trade etc thread was still a perfectly acceptable forum for caravan rumours and Christmas wishes, but to gratify attention-seeking instincts maybe the more general threads doesn't work for everybody. It's going to be a somewhat cluttered board though, with any number of players coming out of contract - some of them excitingly living in states other than Victoria (groans aloud)