{"id":41127,"date":"2021-03-04T19:30:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T20:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=41127"},"modified":"2021-03-04T21:17:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T21:17:15","slug":"melbourne-skipper-signs-monster-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=41127","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne skipper signs monster contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"

Melbourne skipper Max Gawn<\/a> has shunned the option of free agency in 2021, instead signing a new four-year contract extension at the Demons.<\/a><\/p>\n

The deal takes the ruckman through until the end of the 2025 season, with the 29-year-old saying he never really considered elsewhere.<\/p>\n

"I've got a fair bit of faith in where the club's going," Gawn said.<\/p>\n

"We've got some really good, elite players now in the competition, and that, mirrored with some really good young talent \u2026 it's a really good mix.<\/p>\n

"It makes me really excited to be a part of this club for the next few years to hopefully achieve something great.<\/p>\n

"There wasn't really an option for me to leave in my own mental state. I love the line of 'one-club player', but it's more the team we have right now.<\/p>\n

"You'd be a very, very stupid person to leave at 29 after doing all that hard work, to miss the exciting part that we have in front of us."<\/p>\n

\"Max<\/p>\n

Gawn has played 134 games for the club since being selected at number 34 in the 2009 national draft, and has been name an All-Australian on four occasions.<\/p>\n

But the club has only reached the finals in one year since Gawn joined the club, playing in a preliminary final in 2018, where they were thumped by eventual premiers West Coast.<\/p>\n

The Demons slumped to 17th in 2019, and 9th in 2020, but Gawn says free agency wasn't really an option.<\/p>\n

"Free agency, I don't even know what it is really, I wouldn't even know how it works," he joked.<\/p>\n

"Melbourne showed a fair bit of faith in me from the get-go and I've been on a little journey."<\/p>\n

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