Hawthorn star Lance Franklin models a new moustache at training yesterday. Picture: Wayne Ludbey Source: Herald Sun
LIAM Pickering says his friendship with Hawthorn coach Alastair Clarkson will be put to the side when dealing with the contract of star forward Lance Franklin.
Both Clarkson and Franklin are managed by Pickering, of Strategic Management, as are a handful of other Hawks.
Pickering said no rival club had contacted him about Franklin's future in light of his recent decision to put contract talks on hold to the end of the season.
But when the time does come to look at Franklin's contract Pickering said it will be Hawks football manager Mark Evans, and not Clarkson, he talks to about it.
"Clarko and I had a really good chat two or three weeks ago about the whole scenario,'' Pickering said.
"Yeah I manage him, but Clarko and I have been friends since we've been 18, we go back a hell of a long way.
"He understands that I've got a professional job to do and that's to do the right thing by what my client wants, whether the client is him, or Buddy, or Jordan Lewis, or Isaac Smith, whoever it may be."
While dealing with Evans on player contracts, Pickering negotiates with chief executive Stuart Fox on issues pertaining to the coach.
"Keeping the two separate is relatively simple, he insists.
"When I was doing Clarko's contract (in 2011) it's not as if I was discussing it with Buddy,'' Pickering said.
But he admitted there was an element of steeliness that was needed in any negotiation process.
"You've got to put that friendship aside,'' he said.
"They're trying to do the right thing by the club - Clarko's trying to coach a premiership and Buddy's going to try his best to make that happen as well.
"That's the whole idea of having a manager. You don't want to have to worry about the distractions of having to talk to your coach about contracts.
"I can see why people have some interest in how it's all going to play out, but as it sits right now I'm pretty comfortable, as is Clarko, with where it's at.''
Pickering said if rival clubs were thinking about making an offer for the two-time Coleman Medallist then they have not yet made it known to him.
"It's been pretty quiet at this stage,'' he said.
"It is only early in the year so I'm not sure what the other clubs are thinking ... at the moment the only conversations I've had are with Hawthorn.''
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