‘Anything’s possible’: Buddy wants premiership medal to go with 1000th goal ball | VinceRugari
With the big 1000-goal milestone no longer hanging over his head, Lance Franklin has set his sights on the only thing capable of topping it: a premiership with the Sydney Swans.
Lance Franklin with the ball he kicked, in almost the precise spot he kicked it, to bring up his 1000th career goal on Friday night at the SCG.Buddy may yet move further up the all-time VFL/AFL goalscorers list, needing only 32 more goals to overtake Gary Ablett snr and 58 to jump Doug Wade into fourth place, behind Jason Dunstall, Gordon Coventry and Tony Lockett.
“It’s pretty obvious, isn’t it? A premiership,” Franklin said when asked what was next on his to-do list after“That’d be lovely, and that’s what I’ll be striving for this year. But we’ve got a lot of hard work ahead of us to achieve that. I’ll be doing my best to make sure that happens.“Anything’s possible. We’ve got a really talented team, we’re obviously young but we’ve also got a mix of really experienced players that play really good football.
Among the well-wishers was former Hawthorn coach Alastair Clarkson, who popped into the Swans rooms after the game wearing a red and white scarf.
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