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PORT Adelaide's Ollie Wines is set for surgery on his dislocated shoulder - the only question remains when the operation will be done.

Hamish Hartlett has suffered terribly from shoulder issues throughout his 107-game career and unfortunately knows all too well what's in store for Wines.

Wines dislocated his left shoulder against St Kilda last weekend and was subbed from the game at quarter-time.

Coach Ken Hinkley insisted the 20-year-old wouldn't be put at risk of further damage.

With the club's finals hopes on the line this weekend against the Western Bulldogs, Wines may have surgery within the next few weeks.

The Power are yet to announce how the midfield star will be handled for the rest of the season, but Hartlett said surgery awaited him.

"Unfortunately when you have a major dislocation like Ollie did, you're inclined to have an operation at the end of the year," Hartlett said.

"That's probably the track he'll have to go down."

Wines didn't train at all on Wednesday morning and nor did full back Alipate Carlile, whose hip injury appears set to keep him out of the senior side for at least another week.

The issue has sidelined Carlile since round 14.

"We would have liked to have him out there by now but it's an area of the body, it's an injury that you can't progress any quicker than it's allowing him to do," Hartlett said.

"We've just got to take a pretty cautious approach with Alipate at the moment – his hip's not recovering as quickly as we would have liked but we hope to have him out there by the end of the season."

Hartlett also threw his support behind out-of-contract forward Jay Schulz

The full forward has reportedly been offered a two-year deal to join Fremantle at season's end, with negotiations at Alberton stalling.

"'Schulzy' is valued member of our football club and of our team in particular so we'd love him to stay," Hartlett said.

"It's something Schulzy and his management are going to have to work out with the footy club - I know that 'Kenny' and the football club and all the players are keen for Schulzy to stay."

Hartlett and Schulz's immediate attention is keeping the Power's faint finals hopes alive on Saturday by beating the Bulldogs at Etihad Stadium.

Port is 12th on the ladder, six points behind eighth-placed Geelong.

And with just five home and away rounds left, the 24-year-old said the club had to look at every remaining game this year as an elimination final.

"We're not in a position to be able to lose any games from here on in," Hartlett said.

"The importance of each game is there for us and we're aware of that, so we need to approach each game as if it's going to be the last game of the season."