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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

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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.”
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citizen-erased said:
someone mentioned he didnt train as much this week?

Given we've really limited his time in the middle, this might be the case, and even hampered he's still better than any other option forward....which i dispute when we've left Menzie out, Tsatas can shift some magnets, etc.
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i was at the crows game and he looked the same then. just no explosiveness
 
 

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fairbump_playon said:
Would he currently have the endurance required to log on to Big Footy do you reckon? It’s both username and password. Repeat efforts etc.
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Herald Sun this morning stating Scott said 'Jake like lots of players this time of year is carrying something'
Not sure what the 'something' is....but his last month has been well down on his usual output ;-

career average: 13 disposals & 1.7 goals a game
last 4 games: 9 disposals & 0.75 goals a game

He certainly hasn't look right I think it would be well worth giving him a week off
 
Bombers36 said:
Herald Sun this morning stating Scott said 'Jake like lots of players this time of year is carrying something'
Not sure what the 'something' is....but his last month has been well down on his usual output ;-

career average: 13 disposals & 1.7 goals a game
last 4 games: 9 disposals & 0.75 goals a game

He certainly hasn't look right I think it would be well worth giving him a week off
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It's in the press conference from Friday night. He didn't really elaborate further than the quote, but given nothing seems to be strapped and it's affecting both his endurance and his explosiveness, probably groins.
 
Injured.

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Just wrap him up into cotton wool iuntil it is a contract year I guess. Right yodellinhank ?
 

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Needs deloading to another club.

What I'd give to be paid half a million a year to fall short of basic personal development and training goals each year, and essentially turn up to work half the time, half of that time being at a sub-par level.
 
Ruled out due to plantar fascia pain
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    Essendon forward Jake Stringer will miss this weekend’s clash with Sydney after failing to complete main training this week with a foot complaint.

    General Manager of Performance Daniel McPherson said the club will start the deloading process immediately to give Stringer the best chance to recover quickly.

    “Jake was restricted with discomfort in his plantar fascia this week during some speed running at training. He won’t play this weekend, but we’re hopeful the injury will recover quickly,” McPherson said.

    “We’ll know more after he’s had a few days off the foot, but the plan will be to deload him, complete some cross-training in the meantime, and then start to reload the foot and progress him back into training reasonably quickly.”
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    Rd 20: Team selection v Sydney Swans

    Menzie returns while Stringer and Ridley are set to miss.
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