Port Adelaide's Ollie Wines off to an impressive start Ollie Wines boots the ball against the Demons. Picture: Scott Barbour/Getty Images) Source: Getty Images WHEN Josh Francou declared rookie Ollie Wines the Power's best inside midfielder since Josh Carr led the club to premiership glory in 2004, he raised eyebrows. But they aren't raised anymore. Wines' herculean first-round performance against Melbourne rewrote the record books - for his attack on the ball. His 16 contested possessions in the 79-point rout pushed him above North Melbourne's Daniel Harris and Greater Western Sydney's Toby Greene for the most on debut. Wines' great mate, Demon Jack Viney, equalled his record in the same game at the MCG on Easter Sunday. For a pair of kids to do what they did on debut is unheard of. Both on-ball hard nuts led their sides in contested ball wins, prompting Power coach Ken Hinkley to say they were so successful first-up because "they are just fierce competitors." "They are first-year players but when you are such a fierce competitor you'll do okay," he said. They are always going to put themselves in a position where they're going to compete. They don't rely too much on the other stuff in football (experience), they just rely on their work and their hardness at the footy. Eighteen-year-old Wines - already tipped as a future Power captain - has been making the hard ball his own since being drafted at pick seven from Bendigo Pioneers at last year's national draft. For someone so young and inexperienced, he leads Port in contested possessions and clearances for round one and the NAB Cup. Wines' 44 contested possessions are 17 more than his nearest rival - captain Travis Boak. His 19 clearances are one more than Boak and eight more than the next-placed Power player - Kane Cornes with 11. Wines set the scene for Port's big win against the Demons with a crunching tackle on former Power midfielder David Rodan and his 125 Supercoach points were the ninth-most recorded on debut. His big day included 24 disposals - of which 16 were contested - three clearances, three tackles, nine score involvements and one goal. Wines, from the River Murray town of Echuca, in Victoria, was rewarded for his outstanding efforts with the round one AFL Rising Star nomination. "I played my natural game and I was lucky enough to be nominated," he said. To debut was one thing but to debut on the MCG was amazing and every boy's dream. To win and play against Jack really topped things off. Hinkley has been so impressed with Wines that he already has compared him to Geelong's Joel Selwood. Ollie is a quiet, young country boy but the way he's gone about his training ... I've probably got a really good example to measure him against and that's Joel Selwood," he said. I was at Geelong when Selwood came through at 18 and he was an incredible young player. Now he's turned out to be a great captain and, hopefully, Ollie can go on and do some of what Joel's been able to do. Forward Jay Schulz said Wines' heroics were a sign of things to come. "He's going to be a superstar," he said. It is hard to argue.