Hawthorn champion Shane Crawford is confident Lance Franklin will remain a Hawk, turning his back on lucrative offers from rival clubs. Picture: Michael Klein Source: Michael Klein / HeraldSun
FORMER Hawthorn captain Shane Crawford remains confident Lance Franklin will reject a massive offer to join Greater Western Sydney at the end of the season.
Crawford said the Giants had the wrong man if they believe Franklin would be happy being the face of the club.
And he doesn't believe Hawthorn's offer is far away from what the Giants are prepared to pay.
"I think Hawthorn aren't far off the money," Crawford said.
"They can give him their very best offer without breaking up the club and they will come up with ways to make sure they satisfy his needs the best way they possibly can."
Crawford said the Hawks had taken a chance with Franklin when he was first drafted because of some criticism that he could have been a bit wayward, but he was now a Hawk "through and through."
"He is much loved by supporters and also his teammates and I'm sure he will be like Travis Cloke last year and will sign at the end of the season," he said.
"I have got no doubt that he just wants to get through the final series and play really well and then I think he will put pen to paper and stay."
Crawford, who revealed he has a reasonable relationship with Franklin, said there was no way the star forward wanted to go the Giants and be the face of the club and presented at every media conference.
He said it was not in his personality to publicly promote the club or be a spokesman.
"If they keep offering that up, there's no way he will go," Crawford said.
"If they keep offering that up as a carrot, well that's not going to want to make him go to Sydney.
"I just think he loves Melbourne and his teammates who he has grown up with."
Crawford, whose last game was the 2008 Grand Final victory over Geelong, knows what it's like to pursued by another club.
He was offered massive money and business deals to play for Port Adelaide when they joined the AFL in 1997 and was also chased by Collingwood.
He said the closest he came to leaving Hawthorn was in 2005 when he was set to join Sydney the following year.
"You think about things and then you realise where your heart lies and every player goes through it where there are opportunities and it's no different to anyone in the workplace," Crawford said.
"Then you have to work out where you are happiest and it was always tempting to think what may be but at the end of the day my love was always for Hawthorn."
Crawford said the Swans victory in the 2005 Grand Final was a factor in him rejecting the offer because the club had achieved what it had been trying to do since 1933.
Franklin announced at the start of the season that he did want to negotiate with Hawthorn until the end of the season, but the Hawks have put offers to him.
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