Sydney star Lance Franklin has moved into outright fourth spot on the listing of VFL/AFL goalkickers with a 1058th-career aim in his personal milestone match towards St Kilda.
Franklin lined up for the Swans in his 350th AFL match on Thursday night time and sweetened the celebrations together with his first aim of the sport towards the Saints on the SCG.
That main took Franklin previous former Geelong and North Melbourne full-forward Doug Wade and into outright fourth place on the listing of VFL/AFL profession goalkickers.
The four-time Coleman medallist is now solely behind Tony Lockett (1360 objectives), Gordon Coventry (1299) and Jason Dunstall (1254) among the many most prolific goalkickers in VFL/AFL historical past.
Franklin was made to attend to assert fourth spot as his personal with the Swans stored scoreless within the opening time period towards the Saints.
The 36-year-old kicked his 1058th-career aim within the second time period after flattening a juggling pack mark then slotting the set shot from simply inside 50m.
That first aim towards the Saints was Franklin’s 478th for the Swans since becoming a member of the membership forward of the 2014 season, after booting 580 objectives in 182 video games with Hawthorn between 2005 and 2013.
Franklin booted his one thousandth profession aim in spherical two final 12 months towards Geelong, sparking wild scenes as 1000’s of followers invaded the SCG and flocked to the star ahead.
The former Hawks spearhead was additionally the important thing determine the earlier time followers swarmed the sector when he turned the final participant to succeed in 100 objectives in a season within the remaining home-and-away spherical of 2008.
Franklin earlier joined 21 different gamers to succeed in 350 VFL/AFL video games when he ran out for a 168th time for the Swans.
The eight-time All-Australian additionally turned the fourth Indigenous participant, after Shaun Burgoyne, Adam Goodes and Eddie Betts, to succeed in 350 video games.
Franklin has loved taking part in the Saints in milestone matches on the SCG, slotting 9 objectives towards them in his 2 hundredth in 2014 and 4 majors in his three hundredth in 2019.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
