PORT Adelaide midfielder Ollie Wines is highlighting the dramatic change at Alberton by pointing to how he was once prepared to run from the Power — and now will not even consider offers from rival clubs.

“In the first few hours after the (2012 national draft) I was definitely thinking I’d wait for my two years to be up and I’d then head home to Victoria,” said Wines, who on Friday extended his first contract with the Power for two seasons to the end of the 2016.

“That has absolutely changed now. I could not be at a better club. I have the best of both worlds here — with my footy and my family.”

Wines, a first-round draftee, joined fellow Victorians Jasper Pittard and Cam O’Shea and seasoned forward Justin Westhoff in extending their contracts before the Power’s season launch at Adelaide Oval on Friday.

Wines acknowledged his mother’s famous line of the Echuca boy going from “footy hell to footy heaven” remains the most appropriate description of his story at Alberton in the past year.

“She summed it up pretty well,” Wines said. “I was shocked at first because the club had come off a terrible couple of years — and that made it more daunting to be drafted to Port Adelaide. But the changes that have turned around the club have been a positive for me. And it is a big reason I signed on.”

Wines declared he did not even ask of possible offers from rival AFL clubs while considering his options with the Power.

Originally published as Wines had plans to leave Port