Western Bulldogs Coach Brendan McCartney has indicated that negotiations are progressing well with key midfielder Adam Cooney.

“Most things get sorted out with time and negotiations are progressing pretty steadily,” McCartney said today.

“His value is very high – his capacity to add to the team with his unique capacity to run and use the ball and open the game up – which is something we are adding, probably more quickly to our team than people realise”.

McCartney was confident that contract discussions would get sorted out in time.

“We are keen for Adam to stay – we’ve made that quite clear and things will take care of themselves”.