Port Adelaide vice-captain Ollie Wines has pledged allegiance to the club beyond 2018.
Viewed as the captain-in-waiting, Wines’s current two-year contract extension expires at season’s end.
“I’m comfortable where I am,” he told SEN’s Time On.
“It’ll only be a matter of time (before he signs). The old contract debate comes out at this time of the year for a lot of players and I’ve still got eight months left on mine. I’m in no rush to sign but that time will come.
“I guess to get a trade you have to be in a bit of strife or looking for some extra coin and I think the club has done everything right by me and my family.”
Rated as one of the game’s premier young ball winners, anything less than a multi-year offer in the vicinity of $800,000 a season is likely given the Echuca product does not turn 24 until October.
He was today announced as vice-captain as part of the club’s seven-year leadership group headed by skipper Travis Boak.
Wines said coach Ken Hinkley was enjoying the pre-season and “telling a lot of bad jokes that he knows”.
He also hinted star recruit Steven Motlop was honing in on Round 1. The former Cat was taken along slowly during January but has upped the workload in recent weeks.
“The last two weeks he’s been up and about,” he said.
“He’s just so quick and agile.”
Port Adelaide opens its season against Fremantle at Adelaide Oval on Saturday March 24.
Listen to Ollie Wines chatting with Sam McClure on SEN's Time On below: