Traded #25: Jake Stringer - 📦 Traded to GWS for Pick #53 - 16/10

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Whilst many of our players have had interrupted pre-seasons it sounds like Stringer is as fit as he's ever been in his time here

AFL 2020: Jake Stringer Essendon, best pre-season ever, Bombers injuries

In the midst of his club’s wretched summer injury run, Essendon gun Jake Stringer says he’s never been in better shape after experiencing one of his best and smoothest pre-seasons of his AFL career.

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In the midst of his club’s wretched summer injury run, Essendon gun Jake Stringer says he’s never been in better shape after experiencing one of his best and smoothest pre-seasons of his AFL career.

A host of key Bombers have, at different stages over the past few months, battled a range of injuries or suffered setbacks, including Joe Daniher (groin), Cale Hooker (hip), Dylan Shiel (knee) David Zaharakis (knee), Dyson Heppell (foot), Michael Hurley (shoulder) and Orazio Fantasia (hip).

However Stringer, who battled foot, knee and hamstring issues to play 19 of a possible 23 games in 2019, has not just been a constant presence on the track, but also one of Essendon’s best trainers.

In his eighth AFL pre-season, Stringer recently ran a personal best in the 2km time trial, slashing a whopping 20 seconds off his previous top time.

Asked on SEN Breakfast how he was going physically, Stringer cheekily said: “I’m borderline flying at the minute … nah I’m going well.”

The 25-year-old said it’d been “one of the hardest pre-seasons I’ve ever done”. He hailed the influence of the Bombers’ new head of strength and conditioning Sean Murphy, who’s come across from Hawthorn and “really tested us physically and mentally”.

“Not being injured is a massive part and I don't think I've missed a session the whole pre-season, which is all you can ask for when you go into a pre-season is complete as many sessions as you can. I’d be probably in the top one or two at the club that hasn’t missed,” Stringer told SEN on Friday morning.

Asked if it’d been one of his smoothest AFL pre-seasons yet, Stringer declared: “Yeah, by far.

“Last year was pretty good, but this year’s been taken to a new level with Sean Murphy coming across. He's really pushed the boundaries with me.

“It's been a hard slog and, don't worry, I'm looking forward to playing and getting out of this pre-season phase.”

Even though Stringer is “flying”, he said seven or eight teammates are still not in full training, but the “majority of them were running”.

“Not everything's gone to plan, obviously. There's been a few blokes that are still not quite into full training, but that's part of football and part of the pre-season. You’ve just got to deal with whatever comes,” Stringer said.

He later added: “We’re in a great position to able to springboard into the season and hopefully get a few more of these top echelon blokes back.”

The first-round draft pick kicked 98.55 for the Bulldogs in 2015 and 2016 before being traded ahead of the 2018 season to the Bombers, where he’s spent recent summers training with the on-ballers.

Stringer said the plan was still for him to play a mixture of midfield and forward minutes this season, but added he’d been training primarily with the attacking group this pre-season and “honing in on my craft as a forward”.

Stringer said Essendon’s succession plan, which will see senior coach John Worsfold gradually hand the reins to assistant Ben Rutten throughout 2020, was working well. He said Worsfold was at the club everyday and engaged with the players, but Rutten took charge of all tactical discussions and meetings.

“The work that John and Ben have done together has been absolutely outstanding and literally the smoothest transition that you could possibly ever see. It's a credit to both of them how well it's actually gone,” Stringer said.

“I couldn’t be happier with where the club is at the minute.”

Stringer said there’d be a noticeable but not dramatic change to the club’s game plan this season.

“It’ll definitely be a lot more consistent,” Stringer said.

“From a whole learning (process) and even in training, you’re seeing it more and more every time we’re doing bits of match ‘sim’. I think it’ll be very noticeable when people come to watch us.”

 

[Schnitzengruben]

Or that Scott is publicly backing him while privately annoyed

Common sense is not so common.

 

[yaco55]

I have a different take on Stringer - I am not so concerned about his fitness, however he has a technical flaw in his game - Marking - He should hold more marks in which he has clear hands to the ball - Do this and there's an extra ten to 15 goals.

 

[Milanista28]

I have a different take on Stringer - I am not so concerned about his fitness, however he has a technical flaw in his game - Marking - He should hold more marks in which he has clear hands to the ball - Do this and there's an extra ten to 15 goals.

He has small hands, Tsatas has big hands fwiw

 

[Milanista28]

I like how Scott answered the Jake question today in his presser, it makes a lot of sense, I think Jake has a good season.

 

[andleanback]

Pretty sure that was the first preseason with us where we tried to turn him in to a midfielder and he lost all his power and couldn't do the spectacular things that Stringer can do when he has that strength and power.

If he could run midfield loads and maintain his power he'd be a Dustin Martin level player. He can't, so we'll just have to be content that he's still one of the most dynamic medium forwards in the comp that can play a cameo role at centre bounces.

That photo was before he had even started preseason at the club.

 

[Maddogm]

I know my view is the minority

Nah, it's just the idiots tend to be vocal

 

[fishardansin]

Yep, we all got carried away with Stringer's back end to 2021. For the last 9 games he is statistically the best player in the game with centre clearances, disposals, marks and goals. I know I hoped we'd get our own Dusty/Petracca/Danger/DeGoey. Clearly doing all the endurance training breaks him. We now have Setterfield, Perkins and Hobbs to play that centre bull roll. We're better served with Stringer playing forward adding a point of difference from Wright and Tippa. We can still give Tippa and Stringer 2 or 3 centre bounces a game.

 

[skittlebrew]

yeah sorry, i don't buy that. he is most accountable for his conditioning level.

let's see how it plays out this year.

Yesh but it's Stringer... Some players just need a bit more attention than others.

If a seasoned professional comes back from the offseason out of shape it's the players fault.

If a seasoned peanut comes back from the offseason out of shape we could blame the player OR the club can get on the front foot and stop the inevitable from happening to begin with.

 

[ant555]

Yesh but it's Stringer... Some players just need a bit more attention than others.

If a seasoned professional comes back from the offseason out of shape it's the players fault.

If a seasoned peanut comes back from the offseason out of shape we could blame the player OR the club can get on the front foot and stop the inevitable from happening to begin with.

And if he is following the exact program the club gave him after breaking him down the last two seasons before round 1 ?
Problem is there are a lot of comments made without all the facts.

 

[skittlebrew]

And if he is following the exact program the club gave him after breaking him down the last two seasons before round 1 ?
Problem is there are a lot of comments made without all the facts.

So the club didn't personalise his workout program at all?

They've broken him down the last two off seasons, maybe Stringer deliberately didn't follow the program and rightfully so.

Once again it comes back to the club on this one.

 

[DERO]

So the club didn't personalise his workout program at all?

They've broken him down the last two off seasons, maybe Stringer deliberately didn't follow the program and rightfully so.

Once again it comes back to the club on this one.

“Maybe Stringer deliberately did not follow the program and rightfully so”.

Carn man.

 

[skittlebrew]

“Maybe Stringer deliberately did not follow the program and rightfully so”.

Carn man.

Might've taking the piss a bit too much on that one . But it does point to issues with the fitness staff if his body keeps failing him.

The point is he's been a loose unit for a decade now and expecting him to have a preseason while doing the right thing is delusional. You need to stay on him ensuring he eats properly, trains right and stays out of trouble.

Mark Williams had Dusty on a leash keeping him out of mischief, Stinger needs the same.

 

[yodellinhank]

The fact is they have changed his program this year and there has been no internal issues with where he is at .

And this is despite the fact you could make out the impression of his belly button through his training top.

 

[Keystone agony]

And this is despite the fact you could make out the impression of his belly button through his training top.

We also dont know that as fact

 

[faible]

So the club didn't personalise his workout program at all?

They've broken him down the last two off seasons, maybe Stringer deliberately didn't follow the program and rightfully so.

Once again it comes back to the club on this one.

The personalised program might have been what broke him down, so they're trying again with lesser load to get his injury niggles right and not break him before the season starts?

 

[skittlebrew]

The personalised program might have been what broke him down, so they're trying again with lesser load to get his injury niggles right and not break him before the season starts?

The entire point of a personalised program is so he doesn't breakdown...
If he genuinely followed the program than the fitness staff dun goofed.

 

[faible]

The entire point of a personalised program is so he doesn't breakdown...
If he genuinely followed the program than the fitness staff dun goofed.

They've tried to get him to run more to use him through the midfield more often.

He gets through December looking trim and fit.

Then he breaks down.

So I guess yes they goofed.

 

[VelvetSledge]

 

[faible]

Why is he on fire?

 

[SydneyBomber]

Why is he on fire?

Slightly excessive approach to losing weight I would have thought?
But with this club (and fitness staff) not sure I'd be surprised...

 

[I Remember Bluey]

Why is he on fire?

It's preseason

 

[ant555]

The entire point of a personalised program is so he doesn't breakdown...
If he genuinely followed the program than the fitness staff dun goofed.

We ****ed up his program.
The Dogs always had him on a modified program. It worked for a lot of the time but he also went of the rails several times.
For us he was good in 2018 and 2019. Nothing much off field and was pretty fit.
2020 was an issue . Started okay but got injured and lost the focus while he was stuck in Melbourne away from the side and support. He came back fat and unfit.
The last two seasons he has been spot on through December and early Jan . Really fit. Doing all the work but the workload was too much for him and he did not make round 1 and as soon as he can not fully train he puts on 5 or 6 kg and loses the fitness. From what I know his broken leg from his under 18 days gives him a running gate that puts pressure on other parts of his body.

We got seduced by his football ability to play midfield as good as most at his best but the fact is his body does not take midfield workload. Was nothing to do with him. He stuck to the program pre season. The ended up with major groin soreness. 2021 it took him 4 games to get going again after missing the first two games.

Last year he can back in round 2 but was not right and not ready. He played with groin soreness all season.

This year he has been on a slow build. Scott mentioned the fact that they have sacrificed some early conditioning work to build him up strength wise in other areas. He has had a bit of back soreness but is now back doing normal running and some ball work.

 

[DERO]

We ****ed up his program.
The Dogs always had him on a modified program. It worked for a lot of the time but he also went of the rails several times.
For us he was good in 2018 and 2019. Nothing much off field and was pretty fit.
2020 was an issue . Started okay but got injured and lost the focus while he was stuck in Melbourne away from the side and support. He came back fat and unfit.
The last two seasons he has been spot on through December and early Jan . Really fit. Doing all the work but the workload was too much for him and he did not make round 1 and as soon as he can not fully train he puts on 5 or 6 kg and loses the fitness. From what I know his broken leg from his under 18 days gives him a running gate that puts pressure on other parts of his body.

We got seduced by his football ability to play midfield as good as most at his best but the fact is his body does not take midfield workload. Was nothing to do with him. He stuck to the program pre season. The ended up with major groin soreness. 2021 it took him 4 games to get going again after missing the first two games.

Last year he can back in round 2 but was not right and not ready. He played with groin soreness all season.

This year he has been on a slow build. Scott mentioned the fact that they have sacrificed some early conditioning work to build him up strength wise in other areas. He has had a bit of back soreness but is now back doing normal running and some ball work.

That is interesting with Stringer. That makes a lot of sense. Hamstring dominance due to a subtle change in foot-fall etc.

 

[Lance Uppercut]

Looks like he's hiding a bong behind him

 

[Chief]

Looks like he's hiding a bong behind him

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