Lance Franklin has put contract talks with Hawthorn on hold until the end of the season. Picture: Wayne Ludbey Source: Herald Sun
KEVIN Sheedy believes Greater Western Sydney should make a play for free agent Lance Franklin.
The veteran coach last night said he would pay the Hawthorn superstar up to $1.3 million a year to move north.
Money saved by the departure of failed cross-code recruit Israel Folau would help, Sheedy said.
"If it was my advice and it was on the table, I would say go after him," Sheedy said on Fox Footy's AFL 360.
"If you have a package of money left after (Israel) Folau (left), then you get it right.
"And then you might have a (Tony) Lockett. And that injection into Sydney would be fantastic ... it would absolutely enormous."
Franklin has put off contract talks with Hawthorn until the end of the season.
Sheedy, who will hand over the coaching reins to deputy Leon Cameron next season, said Franklin was worth up to $1.3 million a season, which would place him in the realm of the AFL's top earners such as Gold Coast captain Gary Ablett, himself the benefit of a huge play by an expansion team.
"If that is what it takes to get him to Sydney ... and I believe this team would blossom with another great player," Sheedy said.
The Herald Sun this month reported Franklin could be paid by the AFL outside the salary cap, for promotional duties, if he did join the Giants.
League boss Andrew Demetriou said the league would not be party to recruitment negotiations.
GWS is looking to establish a foothold in a crowded sporting market, not helped by the stunning emergence of A-League team, Western Sydney Wanderers.
The Swans were in a similar situation before Lockett joined the club in 1995.
Lockett was paid by the league as a game ambassador, similar to Folau, and Karmichael Hunt in Queensland.
"I would think it is a great opportunity ... if Franklin is ever thinking of leaving Hawthorn, and he could be - nobody thought Lockett would leave St Kilda at the time, or Barry Hall," Sheedy said.
"But the greatest thing the Swans ended up getting was those two key forwards."
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