{"id":46691,"date":"2021-03-19T02:28:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T03:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=46691"},"modified":"2021-03-19T05:02:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T05:02:01","slug":"swans-make-plan-to-test-buddy-in-reserves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=46691","title":{"rendered":"Swans make plan to test Buddy in reserves"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sydney superstar Lance Franklin<\/a> trained with the club's reserves today and the Swans are hoping he will play in a reserves scratch match against GWS this weekend in a bid to make his AFL return in Round Two.<\/p>\n

Wide World of Sports confirmed the Swans' plans with a club source who asked not to be named.<\/p>\n

"It'll depend on how he pulls up (from today's training session) and then what we're thinking in terms of his AFL return," the source said.<\/p>\n

"We haven't ruled it out, but it depends on how he pulls up.<\/p>\n

"We don't have an ideal scenario; it all depends on how he's feeling at any one time.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

"We haven't got concrete plans in place."<\/p>\n

\"Concerns<\/p>\n

Franklin hasn't played an AFL match since notching his 300th game at the SCG in Round 23 of the 2019 season.<\/p>\n

The four-time Coleman medallist has battled a long list of soft-tissue injuries since 2018.<\/p>\n

Franklin didn't play a single match in 2020 and was instead placed on a long-term core-strengthening program.<\/p>\n

The seventh-greatest goal-kicker in the game's history appeared to be on track for a Round One return, but those plans hit a roadblock when he strained his calf in late January.<\/p>\n

Franklin is in the second-last year of his unprecedented nine-year, $10 million contract, which he took up at the end of 2013 after nine seasons with Hawthorn.<\/p>\n

\"Lance<\/p>\n

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Sydney superstar Lance Franklin trained with the club's reserves today and the Swans are hoping he will play in a reserves scratch match against GWS […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46691"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46693,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46691\/revisions\/46693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}