PORT Adelaide should never have allowed star midfielder Ollie Wines to go water skiing, AFL.com.au chief football correspondent Damian Barrett says.

The Power have backed the injured Wines, who is expected to miss the start of the AFL season after dislocating his shoulder while water skiing on Australia Day.

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"There's enough wording in the standard player contract for it to be covered that he cannot water ski," Barrett said on 2019's debut episode of the Sounding Board podcast.

"I reckon it's pretty easy. If you want to play for this footy club, you don't do this. And if you do, we are going to move you on."

Co-host Craig Hutchison said if Wines was a professional athlete in the United States, he would have been axed for failing to live by his team’s professional standards.

"It’s ridiculous that he went skiing," Hutchison said. "Players who want to earn that money just can’t do it. The reality is that in America, he would've been cut the next day, regardless of whether he was going to be named captain the next week."

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Episode guide

1:30 – Damo reveals his new role at AFL.com.au

5:45 – The Darren Weir story and the integrity of horse racing

14:30 – Aussie cricket captain Tim Paine, and the number one problem facing the Big Bash League

19:30 – AFLX, AFLW and the JLT Community Series

21:00 – Was the online criticism of Channel Nine sports reporter Tony Jones valid?

30:00 – The verdict on the Central Coast Mariners' A-League experiment with Usain Bolt

33:30 – Why Ollie Wines' water skiing injury should never have happened

36:00 – The Lleyton Hewitt-Bernard Tomic feud, and why Hewitt should step down as Davis Cup captain

43:30 – Who wins the Super Bowl?

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