Hawthorn want an answer from Lance Franklin. Picture: Daniel Wilkins Source: PerthNow
HAWTHORN will demand to know before the end of the season whether Lance Franklin will stay at the club.
The superstar shocked Hawthorn when he put contract talks on hold, but he will be asked to decide his future on the club's timetable.
The Hawks want an early answer from Franklin to eliminate the sort of distraction that surrounded Travis Cloke's contract status at Collingwood last year.
"You can't leave it until after the season, because from a recruiting point of view, it's just impractical," Hawthorn president Andrew Newbold told the Herald Sun.
Despite Franklin's pre-season call to shelve contract talks, the Hawks will present their marquee player with another contract offer some time throughout the season.
Newbold said the club was "truly very relaxed" about the situation and remained confident the terms on offer to Franklin reflected his standing.
But Newbold said the club could not afford to wait until the last minute to get an answer from its brilliant forward.
"It can be towards the end of the season, but it won't be able to be after the season," he said.
"I think that maybe we have taken that for granted a bit, but that's certainly our position.
"If he is going to leave, he needs to be thinking about where he is going. He just can't leave that until after the season, there are practicalities attached to it."
Newbold said the club would discuss with Franklin's manager, Liam Pickering, whether some of the terms of the warehoused proposal could be negotiated.
"We will be going to him some time during the year with another offer saying 'Mate, there it is, we need to know'," he said.
"We will talk to his manager about that, about what needs to be tweaked and what doesn't and whether we can and whether we can't."
One of the biggest names in the game, Franklin, who is a restricted free agent at the end of the year, could command a salary in excess of $1.2 million a year on the free market.
Greater Western Sydney has already declared its interest but Fremantle is adamant it is not in the running.
With the Hawks salary cap estimated to be near capacity, the club has insisted it would not compromise its list for one player.
"You just can't do it when you've got 44 players on your list," Newbold said. "All the aspects of the leadership of the club are at one on that.
"Everything I am hearing and seeing for myself is that he loves the Hawthorn footy club and certainly we want him to be here."
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