Sydney's just the place for Lance Franklin to show his best form Sydney Swans co-captain Jarrad McVeigh has revealed he was consulted about the club's move to sign Lance Franklin. Sydney recruit Lance Franklin is excited about life in the Harbour City. A LARGE slice of the AFL community are expecting Lance Franklin to run amok as soon as he hits sin city. But if he's like almost every other that has come to the Swans from another club he will play the best football of his career or very close to it. Tony Lockett and Barry Hall are the best examples of high profile key forwards coming to the harbour city and having success. Both enjoyed the freedom of playing AFL football in a Rugby League dominated city and the greater privacy that afforded them. In his last two years at St Kilda Lockett's career was starting to plateau as he kicked 53 and 56 goals in 1993 and 1994. He kicked 110 in his first year at the Swans. Injury played a part in the relative lack of goals and games for Lockett at the Saints but he was not enjoying the fish bowl environment of the Melbourne media. He famously threw a crutch at a TV cameraman when he was getting treatment on his injured knee. Franklin's manager Liam Pickering has spoken about the Hawk stars disaffection for Melbourne's media scrutiny when TV cameras, photographers and journalists set up camp outside his Melbourne home for two weeks after he lost his licence for speeding. He also voiced his disapproval on Twitter of a front page story in Melbourne's Herald Sun after he was confronted by a woman at a private party. Franklin may well note that Lockett booted a ton straight after leaving St Kilda and added another 352 for Sydney including the record breaking 1300th at the SCG. Hall also relished the move out of the Melbourne spotlight playing for St Kilda to the relative anonymity of Sydney. He was at his best as a Swan kicking 467 goals in 16 games between 2002 and 2009. The highlight came in 2005 when he held the premiership cup aloft as captain of the Swans. Franklin will almost certainly have the chance to add to his premiership tally of two when he moves to Sydney with the Swans premiership window likely to be open for the next four or five seasons at the very least. Lockett and Hall are the obvious comparisons to Franklin but they are just the tip of the iceberg for success stories when footballers pull on the red and white. For most of the three decades the Swans have been in Sydney players have been arriving from interstate to see their careers blossom. Gerard Healy (Melbourne) and Greg Williams (Geelong) got the ball rolling in the 1980"s when both won Brownlow medals. Wayne Schwass (North Melbourne) and Andrew Schauble (Collingwood) both won Bob Skilton medals after crossing from Melbourne clubs. Stuart Maxfield became the club's captain following a move from the Tigers and Paul Roos played plenty of good football after leaving Fitzroy. Franklin will also note the list of Swans imports who win premiership medals. The 2005 premiership featured Jason Ball (West Coast), Paul Williams (Collingwood), Nick Davis (Collingwood), Darren Jolly (Melbourne), Craig Bolton (Brisbane) and Barry Hall (St Kilda). The 2012 premiership had Josh Kennedy (Hawthorn), Ted Richards (Essendon), Rhyce Shaw (Collingwood), Marty Mattner (Adelaide), Shane Mumford (Geelong) and Mitch Morton (Richmond, West Coast).