Fremantle captain Matthew Pavlich is confident the Dockers and Paul Hasleby will sort out their differences, allowing the veteran midfielder to remain in purple and green next season.
The out-of-contract 28-year-old has only been offered a new one-year deal at Fremantle, along with a pay cut, which was rejected by his manager Anthony van der Wielen last month.
Hasleby believes he has at least two years of good football left in him, despite missing all of 2008 following a knee reconstruction.
Pavlich, though, is confident his good friend and business partner won't be heading to another club anytime soon.
"It's up to the club and Haze to sort it out and I'm confident it will happen," Pavlich said on Monday.
"It is for him and the club to decide (but) the great thing about Paul is that he has come back and played a really great season."
"He's shown his body can withstand an AFL season."
"It is up to those two parties, the club and Paul, but I am confident," he said.
Despite it being 'Mad Monday' for the Dockers after finishing 14th with just six wins, Pavlich said he and the entire squad had to come to 'work' this week for various season reviews and fitness tests, designed to determine who'd need post-season surgery.
The captain was hopeful he wouldn't be having any operations but said at least five players would require minor surgery, although he was confident they'd all be fit to start pre-season training with the rest of th squad.
However, as part of the Game's Rules Committee, Pavlich wasn't quite as positive when asked about the future of the bump, after Essendon skipper Matthew Lloyd was offered a four-week suspension for his hit on Brad Sewell last Saturday that left the Hawk with a fractured eye socket.
Pavlich said the Rules Committee didn't have a major involvement in policing bumps, saying it was the Match Review Panel and Tribunal's responsibility to determine whether a bump was illegal under AFL regulations.
But he pleaded with them for some leniency following Lance Franklin's much-publicised suspension last week, saying the speed of the modern game made it difficult for players to decide on-field reactions.
"It's very hard in that moment out on the ground where you literally have to make a split-second decision."
"It's pretty hard to process all that information (and) make sure you do the right thing, especially when there's so much riding on a particular moment."
"A guy doesn't want to look like they're pulling out of a contest. You don't want to be doing the wrong thing by the team."
In other Dockers' news, Steve Malaxos is leaving the club after seven seasons as the club's player development coach.
Malaxos is out of contract at the end of October and is not seeking an extension, despite his good work in developing Fremantle's 10 first-year players this season, including Rising Star nominees Stephen Hill and Nic Suban, along with the 2008 Rising Star winner Rhys Palmer.