UPDATE, 2.58pm — Crows confirm they want to keep Lynch.
Adelaide assistant coach Matthew Clarke has reiterated how important Tom Lynch is to the club.
“He is an excellent player,” Clarke said on Friday. “He’s been really good for us over probably four or five years.”
“It’s well documented that he creates that link between the back line and the forward line really.
“Even though he sets up in the forward line it’s his link play that is really critical to our ball movement.
“He’s important. He’s not a player we want to lose.”
EARLIER…
Football reporter Sam Edmund says interstate clubs are getting a whiff they might be a chance of luring unsigned Adelaide Crows star Tom Lynch.
“As it stands, the Tom Lynch camp and the Adelaide Football club camp are a fair way off on paper in terms of the length of deal and the monetary value,” Edmund told SEN on Friday.
Earlier Edmund wrote in the Herald Sun that the distance between the club and Lynch “could expose the influential forward to rival poachers”.
“The Herald Sun has learned both parties have different opinions on what Lynch is worth as the Victorian prepares to return from illness against former side St Kilda on Saturday night.
“It’s understood the length of the deal, as well as money, are the sticking points.
“Sources said a Lynch-Adelaide agreement, while not miles away on paper, is some time away from being formalised…
“For now, the man many consider the most important player in coach Don Pyke’s offensive system is in limbo and the subject of interest at a swag of clubs.”
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