AFL fans will have the chance to give a final send-off to Lance Franklin when he completes a lap of honour during the round-24 clash against Melbourne at the SCG.
Lance Franklin will return to the SCG for a lap of honour against Melbourne in round 24.
because of a calf injury during Sydney’s win over Essendon in round 20. However, the champion forward, who played 354 games and booted 1066 goals, eschewed the opportunity to have a farewell press conference.But a Swans spokesman confirmed on Friday that Franklin has agreed to a lap of honour at half-time during Sunday week’s match against the Demons.
As reported by this masthead, Sydney chairman Andrew Pridham last week said the club wanted to give Franklin –“The hope is we’ll do it on the Sunday of the final round. We definitely want to do something [for Franklin]. We’ll see what he wants to do,” Pridham said. While the Swans did not win a premiership with “Buddy” in the decade after he crossed from Hawthorn on a $10 million, nine-year contract, they made three grand finals and experienced huge growth as a club during the Franklin years.
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