Past #23 Buddy Franklin - Thanks Buddy

How long will Buddy play for Sydney?


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Lance Franklin
Lance Franklin is a giant of the game. The star Sydney Swans forward has played 300 AFL games, won two premierships with Hawthorn, is the seventh-greatest goal-kicker in VFL/AFL history, is one of just five men with eight All Australian blazers and is the most recent player to have kicked 100 goals in a season. The Western Australian is also one of just two players in the game’s history, along with former Swan and Saint Tony Lockett, to have booted 300 goals for two clubs. Franklin was added to a leadership group for the first time in his career ahead of season 2020, joining co-captains Josh Kennedy, Luke Parker and Dane Rampe, as well as Callum Mills. But the 33-year-old, who was named captain of the 2018 All Australian team, has long been considered an exceptional unofficial leader, so great is his impact on Will Hayward, Nick Blakey, Ben Ronke and the rest of Sydney’s young forwards.

Lance Franklin
DOB: 30 January 1987
DEBUT: 2005
DRAFT: #5, 2004 National Draft
RECRUITED FROM: Dowerin (WA)/Perth (WAFL)/Hawthorn

 
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Jun 16, 2012
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I think the penny has finally dropped at the club and they now know they cant just roll out buddy every week with no preparation. Getting surgerh asap is a big improvement on last year where he got it done right on the eve of the season
 

MC Bad Genius

No, not THAT MC Bad Genius. The other one.
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i dont buy the needed him to play to see what he needed fixed s**t longmire was going on with, but was good to see him play
I think it would've played a part. Pretty much every player plays through injuries and he was coming back from a soft issue injury so there no way to properly assess the impact of any other injuries except to get him into a full training load and the best way to do that is to prepare him for a match. If he knew he wasn't playing there would be some psychological reason he wouldn't train as hard.

I'm not saying there weren't a bunch of other reasons to play him, but it wasn't total crap.

And in the end, they made the right decision. Was the best match of the season to be at and gave our retirees the perfect end to fantastic careers!
 

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Father son
We have a mixed track record with father/sons

Josh Kennedy, Nick Davis, Mitch Morton and Rhyce Shaw brilliant (all premiership players)
Tom Mitchell and Josh Dunkley disasters
 

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Jun 27, 2010
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Also father-daughter.

If he/she grows up in Sydney then good luck to Hawks trying to extract them.

Unless for some unfathomable reason they decide to follow in mum's footsteps as model, TV star, celebrity.
 

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