IT WOULD take a miracle for Port Adelaide co-captain Ollie Wines to take the field in the Power's round one encounter with Melbourne.
The 24-year-old is recovering from surgery after dislocating his right shoulder in a wakeboarding accident on Australia Day.
"Best case probably (round) two or three," Wines told Channel Seven.
"It would take a miracle to play round one, there's probably a little bit too much of a risk to push it that early given such a long year, so we'll probably put it off at this stage.
"We'll have a look in a couple of weeks if I'm right to go.
"It's coming along as best as it can at this stage.
"We've had no hiccups.
"I can run at the moment, so I've been doing a lot of running, a fair bit in the gym, so building it up, but no contact at this stage."
Meanwhile, the Power's new attacking gameplan – designed to "make the opposition sweat" – is the result of coach Ken Hinkley imploring his players to have a greater input in their style of play.
Speaking at the club's season launch and hall of fame induction at the Adelaide Convention Centre on Wednesday night, Power co-captain Tom Jonas revealed Hinkley threw the gauntlet down to the players in the wake of last season's disappointing finish.
After sitting pretty at 11-4, the Power lost six of their last seven games, playing a slow and conservative style to miss the finals.
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"At the start of pre-season, Ken put it on the playing group a little bit to have a say," Jonas said.
"So, we came back and said it's good fun kicking goals and taking the game on a little and making the opposition sweat.
"We've built a gameplan around that and gone back to what we were doing three or four years ago when we were more aggressive with the ball, more unpredictable and playing with a bit of flair.
"It'll be interesting to see how it goes.
"It's looked pretty exciting in the off-season and there were patches of it last week, so I think it'll be very good this year."
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The early results are promising.
The Power played with abandon and took the game on in last Saturday's 17-point JLT Community Series loss to a highly fancied Adelaide side in 41-degree heat at Port Pirie.
They played on from 63 per cent of their marks – a vast improvement from 25 per cent last year.
Four-time Power best and fairest and 2004 premiership player Kane Cornes was inducted into Port Adelaide's hall of fame, along with seven-time Port Adelaide SANFL premiership player George Fiacchi and the club's state-league premiership-winning teams from 1962, 1963 and 1965.
