Tom Lynch claims he hasn’t thought about football future beyond Gold Coast’s 2018 AFL season
STAR forward Tom Lynch was grilled about whether he was committed to Gold Coast long-term. His answers mightn’t have convinced Suns fans too much.
Tom Lynch: As a club and as a playing group, we were really disappointed with our year. Obviously it’s not the standards we set or any club sets, to be honest. We’ll obviously get a new coach — that’ll be an exciting time, a fresh start and looking forward to next year and seeing what happens.
Robinson: Righto, we’ll see what happens. Are you ready if the club came to you over summer to extend a contract Tom, would you say ‘yes that’s what I want to do’, or will you say ‘I’ll wait until the end of the season’?
Lynch: It sounds cliche, but I actually haven’t thought about it because we don’t have a coach at the moment, so I think that’s first and foremost for a footy club — they’ll be sorting that out. We’re looking forward to seeing who gets announced and it’ll be exciting time for us.
Robinson: I know you’re avoiding the questions a little bit Tommy, but you guys fought hard for free agency, so I would expect every player coming out of contract in their final free agency year would explore and look at what offers are out there. Is that a silly thing to say?
Lynch: Sorry, it’s pretty loud in here, could you ask that again?
At this point, Collingwood’s Tyson Goldsack steps in to save the day.
Tyson Goldsack: He says would it be a silly thing to ask with free agency — I think you have to acknowledge free agency is a thing. I’d like to say you’d be silly not to have a look at free agency when the time comes up. But in saying that you want to see who’s your coach first and foremost and kind of work from there, I would’ve thought.
Lynch: Yeah absolutely. To be honest, I only saw a month ago I think that (my) free agency’s come out. I hadn’t really thought about it. I’ve only been playing seven years and it’s gone so fast. To think eight years next year has really gone fast, so I haven’t thought too much about it. We’re just looking towards the new coach and we’re looking forward to that.
By the sounds of it , he is feed up with what is going on at the Suns as well and will most probably leave as well.