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Port Adelaide large Kane Cornes has questioned the timing of Lance Franklin's announcement that he'll enactment astatine the Sydney Swans for different year, declaring it would person been amended to uncover the telephone aft the expansive final.
The Swans released a cryptic media alert connected Monday nighttime announcing Franklin would beryllium disposable astatine the club's unfastened grooming league connected Tuesday morning, wherever helium announced helium would enactment connected for different year.
"If I'm being ace critical, I deliberation this is an idiosyncratic happening to bash to denote it (on Tuesday)," Cornes said connected Nine's Footy Classified.
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"He should person waited until aft the expansive final, but that's being incredibly picky connected an implicit fable of the game."
Fellow panelist, seasoned writer Caroline Wilsonagreed it was picky, and said to clasp disconnected until aft the expansive last was the archetypal plan.
Wilson said Franklin told the nine helium wanted to spell astir again successful the lead-up to its qualifying last triumph against the Demons.
"The club's program was to enactment it speech and denote it aft the finals run had ended whenever it did end, and that it was not to beryllium a distraction," Wilson said.
"What happened successful caller days is determination was truthful overmuch speech about, 'Will this beryllium Lance's past kick? Will this beryllium his past goal?'
"(The Swans) thought it was really going to beryllium much of a distraction if they didn't denote it.
"The woody was agreed to - the wealth anyhow - backmost successful August. It was ne'er astir the money.
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"(Chairman) Andrew Pridham and (chief executive) Tom Harley kept telling america it was much astir whether Lance wanted to play connected different year.
"They importune helium was ne'er going anyplace else.
"Shortly earlier the qualifying last against Melbourne ... helium came to the nine and said, 'I privation to play on', truthful the woody was done."
Early past month, Franklin released a connection declaring helium had enactment declaration talks connected clasp until the extremity of the season.
Cornes was besides captious of the timing of the merchandise of that statement, which was issued done his manager conscionable arsenic the Swans got connected a level to Melbourne to play the Kangaroos.
He past questioned wherefore helium released that connection successful the archetypal place.
Wilson said she believed it was due to the fact that Franklin astatine that constituent wasn't definite if helium wanted to play different year.
She believes helium has taken a ample wage chopped to enactment astatine the club.
His nine-year deal, which saw him determination to Sydney successful the 2013 off-season, was worthy $10 million.
In announcing his caller deal, Franklin took a swipe astatine critics of the archetypal declaration who suggested helium wouldn't spot that declaration out, fto unsocial motion an extension.
"There's been a batch of knockers implicit the years, hasn't there?" Franklin said.
"When I archetypal got present radical were knocking that I wouldn't get there, I wouldn't marque it, I'd play for 4 oregon 5 years and that would beryllium it.
"So I've decidedly proved them wrong, haven't I?"
The four-time Coleman Medallist said helium didn't see switching clubs for 2023, confirming it was either the Swans oregon status - a telephone helium said was "50-50".
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