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COLEMAN MEDALLIST PARKS CONTRACT TALKS AS PIES CIRCLE<\/p>\n
2024 Coleman Medal winner Jesse Hogan has reportedly put a hold on talks for a contract extension at GWS, leaving Victorian powerhouse Collingwood beginning to circle.<\/p>\n
Nine reported on Tuesday evening that the 31-year-old won\u2019t entertain a new deal at the Giants until at least season\u2019s end, after SEN\u2019s Tom Morris reported in May that Hogan and his club of six seasons were far apart on terms for a new deal.<\/p>\n
Tuesday\u2019s report suggested that the Magpies view the unrestricted free agent as a low cost option up forward, while Gold Coast also has interest to a lesser degree in him.<\/p>\n
After being drafted to Melbourne in the 2012 mini-draft, Hogan played 71 games at the Demons before moving west to Fremantle for a short period, and eventually ventured to the Giants at the end of 2020.<\/p>\n
Attacking teammates Jake Stringer, Jake Riccardi and Max Gruzewski all remain out of contract, alongside captain Toby Greene who has been heavily linked to Geelong.<\/p>\n
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\u2018WEIGHING UP HIS DECISION\u2019: DEES STAR SPEAKS ON FUTURE OF FREE AGENT TEAMMATE<\/p>\n
Star Melbourne defender Jake Lever has given insight into the decision facing out-of-contract teammate Tom Sparrow, as he weighs up interest from his home state.<\/p>\n
Speaking to SEN on Tuesday, Lever lauded the 26-year-old for his output in his eighth year at the Demons, which has seen him hit career-best form as an unrestricted free agent. <\/p>\n
\u201cRight now, he is playing some fantastic footy. He is just such a great teammate. He chases, he tackles, (and) wins contested ball,\u201d Lever said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is someone I love playing with every week … I think Tommy understands how much we love him.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut, he has been in a position where he\u2019s probably only had one or two-year contracts, and right now, playing his career-best footy, he is weighing up his decision.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he understands how important he is to this football club. Now that he has finally got his opportunity, he\u2019s proved to the competition and to Melbourne what he\u2019s worth. I\u2019m sure that will get done in time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sparrow, who hails from Bridgewater in South Australia, has had interest from Port Adelaide back in his home state, and more recently Essendon.<\/p>\n
The Demons are expected to have a four or five-year deal on the table for the midfielder-forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cSparrow is expected to attract offers north of $800,000 a season, but the Bombers\u2019 deal may need to approach $1 million in their current predicament to tempt him out of the finals-bound Demons,\u201d Fox Footy\u2019s Jay Clark revealed earlier this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Coleman Medallist has parked contract conversations until the end of the season, sparking rival interest from a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-814076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}