New to Kayo? Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\nPENDLES KEEN TO PLAY ON AS RIVALS CIRCLE<\/p>\n
Collingwood champion Scott Pendlebury is keen to play on next year, but the club is yet to table him a new deal as rival clubs circle. <\/p>\n
The Herald Sun\u2019s Lauren Wood reports the AFL\u2019s games record holder, who turns 39 in January, is prepared to extend his decorated career into 2027. <\/p>\n
But with the Pies yet to offer Pendlebury a new deal as one of several Collingwood veterans facing uncertain futures, Gold Coast and Essendon are closely monitoring the situation. <\/p>\n
\u201cOur understanding is that he is wishing to play on next year. Collingwood yet to put a deal to him, but we know a lot of other clubs have been sniffing around this,\u201d Wood said on Fox Footy\u2019s Midweek Tackle.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can tell you that Gold Coast is still pretty keen to sustain their interest in him and have a bit of a talk about what the next couple of years potentially could look like up there.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was put to me by an industry source tonight that Essendon could potentially go very, very hard at Scott Pendlebury, as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a lot to weigh up there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fellow Herald Sun reporter Glenn McFarlane expects Collingwood to eventually table Pendlebury, widely considered a future senior coach in waiting, a new playing deal for what would be a 22nd AFL season.<\/p>\n
\u201cSurely he stays. Collingwood will come up with a deal, he\u2019ll play for one more year. I\u2019m not sure he wants to step straight into coaching anyway,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe wants to finish at Collingwood, I\u2019m sure.\u201d <\/p>\n
Pendlebury has been heavily managed by Collingwood this year with 15 senior appearances. <\/p>\n
Veteran teammates Steele Sidebottom, Jeremy Howe and Tim Membrey are also out of contract.<\/p>\n
FREO SKIPPER TO REJECT TASSIE INTEREST<\/p>\n
Fremantle captain Alex Pearce has reportedly told the club he\u2019s not interested in joining the Tasmania Devils. <\/p>\n
Pearce, who\u2019s originally from Tasmania, has been linked to the Devils as a potential inaugural captain of the club ahead of the 19th club\u2019s AFL entry in 2028.<\/p>\n
But Pearce, due to become a free agent next year when he turns 32, is believed to be keen to extend his contract with the Dockers and reject the lure of Tassie.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not going to happen. He had been linked to the (Devils), people had suggested maybe he would take a meeting. But he ain\u2019t leaving this footy club at Fremantle,\u201d Herald Sun reporter Jon Ralph said on Fox Footy\u2019s Midweek Tackle.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe shut it down really hard. He\u2019s made clear to the Dockers: \u2018I want to be a one-club player\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think their view is, probably Nat Fyfe and Matthew Pavlich are the guys who are unrequited. If anyone deserved a premiership, it\u2019s them. Then you look at him as probably the third person out there who is desperately chasing a flag and in fact might get it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ll sit down at the start of next pre-season, they\u2019ll get that done. He might be the bloke who lifts the first premiership cup for the Fremantle Dockers and I think he\u2019d be absolutely worthy.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe won\u2019t be at the Tasmania Football Club.\u201d <\/p>\n
How Essendon responded to Lethal’s view | 02:05<\/p>\n
Ralph added that managers say it will be challenging for Tassie so secure A-grade talent, with the likes of North Melbourne\u2019s Finn O\u2019Sullivan and Essendon\u2019s Nate Caddy having recently signed contract extensions without even meeting with the Devils.<\/p>\n
\u201cFifty-eight millionaires last year in the AFL. What it shows is so much money in the game. <\/p>\n
\u201cIf you want to get paid, you will get paid at your existing club \u2026 it\u2019s going to be a significant challenge for them.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey will get players, of course. They\u2019ve got $5 million in their sign-on bonus and got that many (draft) selections. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut Cal Ward was offered $400,000 by the Dogs and he left for $800,000 at GWS. If you\u2019re on $1.2 million and being offered $1.6 million, that $400,000 gap isn\u2019t life changing anymore.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you\u2019re Beau McCreery and you get offered $1 million and you\u2019re on $500,000, you think about it. But it\u2019s still not a cut and dry decision.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scott Pendlebury is keen to extend his decorated career into 2027, with two rival clubs circling the games…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-851466","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\/851466","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=851466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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