On a rare return to Sydney, Lance Franklin opens up on life after the AFL and the prospects for his former team.
Last July, Lance Franklin’s body told him what his mind already knew: it was time to retire from AFL after almost two decorated decades at Hawthorn and the Sydney Swans.
Franklin watches every Swans game he can from his Gold Coast home with his young family, but hasn’t once considered a comeback. The football chapter of his life is firmly closed. “But there’s still a lot of work to go and they’ve got a finals campaign coming up, if they keep going the way they are hopefully they can do it.”Franklin has been impressed by the Swans this season and was particularly happy to see his former mentee Joel Amartey’s spectacular nine-goal haul against Adelaide in round 14.
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