AFL 300-gamer Kane Cornes has taken goal at Fremantle after the membership provided the two-time Brownlow Medallist Nat Fyfe a two-year contract extension.
The deal will take Fyfe by way of to the tip of his profession, giving him two years to win the premiership he has coveted all through his footballing life.
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On his day, the 31-year-old Fyfe is without doubt one of the finest gamers within the AFL and has been the center and soul of the Dockers all through his profession, the place he’ll most certainly retire a one-club participant.
Also three-time All-Australian, seemingly the one prize left for him to assert is a premiership to cap an unbelievable profession.
While Fyfe will go down as a membership legend, his finest days are already behind him as accidents have haunted him through the years.
While he has performed 214 video games, he’s missed loads extra.
But talking on SEN Breakfast, Cornes questioned whether or not spending wage cap on Fyfe was a sensible choice for the Dockers.
“Is it 2019 or is it 2023?” Cornes requested on SEN Breakfast.
“Nat Fyfe has been given a two-year contract extension, meaning Fremantle have committed to him for another two and a half seasons.
“He’s missed 32 games in three and a half seasons, he turns 32 in a few months, he’s the 409th rated player in the AFL according to your friends at Champion Data, he’s the 24th rated player at his own club Fremantle.
“He’s kicked one goal in his last five games of 2023, he’s kicked six goals in his last 12 games.
“He’s a shadow of himself, yet Fremantle have committed to him for another two seasons after this one.
“Are they scared of him? I mean, it’s really difficult to make hard calls on champions of your club, but it’s not 2019 anymore.
“This isn’t the Nat Fyfe of old, am I being too harsh?”
Reports emerged on Friday that Fyfe’s deal was lower than half of his earlier deal, going from a $1 million a season to round $400,000.
While there are greater than 50 matches earlier than the tip of his prolonged deal, Cornes believes “he’s got 25 left — and five good ones.”
But North Melbourne legend David King stated Fyfe can be price it as the subsequent era come by way of.
“With the champions, I like the overs rather than the under,” King stated.
“They’ve been so good for your footy club, and I know the club’s been good for them in terms of finance back the other way and those sorts of things.
“But this guy is seriously important to winning the premiership, he is and you can think you’ve gone past him, but look at last weekend’s game against Melbourne.
“It’s clearly his best game for a while, 20 touches, he was at the coal face winning contested footy.
“He’s the big body showing these smaller young stars the way.”
Cornes argued that Fremantle ought to have waited till the tip of the yr, and King admitted that two years was a “a quirk that I wasn’t thinking they would do”.
However, he questioned whether or not different golf equipment have been circling.
Fyfe did admit on Friday there have been different golf equipment , however had completely handled Fremantle earlier than signing on the dotted line.
“I saw a picture of me in the different jumpers and it just didn’t hit,” he advised 7 News Perth.
“It wasn’t me, that was never going to happen.”
Fyfe did tease he wished to remain to win a premiership.
The Dockers at the moment sit ninth on the AFL ladder however solely on share to the seventh-placed Crows and Bombers in eighth.
Source: www.news.com.au
