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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

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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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Scott's presser:

What do you need from Jake to put him back in the frame?

"It's just part of the build for Jake. He was medically available for round 1, but we just felt he really needed another solid week of training which he did. He has matched and exceeded game loads at training. But we want to set him up to play his best footy. There's definitely a temptation to look at the team on paper and think 'gee we're a better side with Jake in it'. But you've got to give players the opportunity to be the best they can be. He will attract some attention when he comes back in and I just don't think it's the right thing to do to bring a player in of his calibre when he's not absolutely 100% and had a really good prep. So again it fits in with our approach of not taking any shortcuts and not looking short term."

Extra sessions to get ready quicker?

"He doesn't need to do anything outside of the regular program. So he'll play in the VFL this week and really that's the final bit of preparation for him to be available to play AFL footy. As I said two weeks ago he was out of the medical situation where they rule him in or out, he's been available for a couple of weeks and now it's just a matter of having him right to play his best footy"

How many quarters in the VFL?

"He'll play the whole game. The only thing that might mitigate that is that we have a 6 day break leading into the next game, so we'll have a look at that. But the plan is for him to play the whole game."

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Rd 2 | Scott media conference

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eth-dog said:
I'd play him in his best position, which is a wing, which he has proven to be very good at.
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You would be the only one on this forum that thinks his best position is on a wing.

I can't remember him ever playing there more than 5 minutes.

Do you think it's because a strength of his is his gut running and ability required to run both ways ?

He wouldn't last a quarter playing that role.
 
The Donners said:
Has he really proven he’s very good on the wing? I’d say he’s too slow. I’d also say if he doesn’t have ball in hand he’s a liability.

He’s a very nice kick for goal, knows how to find space and is capable overhead, wouldn’t you think playing as a half forward would be his best position? Not taking into account lack of defensive pressure/the ball rebounding to our defensive 50 quicker than you can say * me dead if the ball hits the deck in our forward line.
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Yes. I've shown it several times throughout his thread.

He's good defensively on a wing, runs both ways and is an elite kick inside 50.
cobra land said:
You would be the only one on this forum that thinks his best position is on a wing.

I can't remember him ever playing there more than 5 minutes.

Do you think it's because a strength of his is his gut running and ability required to run both ways ?

He wouldn't last a quarter playing that role.
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I'm not, but you don't remember his two years of finishing top 5 in the best and fairest? He played wing there. And was excellent at it.
 
eth-dog said:
Yes. I've shown it several times throughout his thread.

He's good defensively on a wing, runs both ways and is an elite kick inside 50.

I'm not, but you don't remember his two years of finishing top 5 in the best and fairest? He played wing there. And was excellent at it.
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Just to be clear, you're talking about Langford and not Stringer right?
 

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Lore said:
Just to be clear, you're talking about Langford and not Stringer right?
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Yep. I was laughing at Donners insistence that he wasn't best 22
 
eth-dog said:
Yes. I've shown it several times throughout his thread.

He's good defensively on a wing, runs both ways and is an elite kick inside 50.

I'm not, but you don't remember his two years of finishing top 5 in the best and fairest? He played wing there. And was excellent at it.
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We definitely disagree on him being very good or excellent on the wing.

Durham and Martin have been around 5 minutes and have already overtaken him.
 
The Donners said:
We definitely disagree on him being very good or excellent on the wing.

Durham and Martin have been around 5 minutes and have already overtaken him.
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Yes, we know about your blind spots.
 
Anyway this is the Stringer thread.
 

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Watched about half of his VFL game. Loved how unselfish he was given that he couldn’t be blamed for thinking he was the main man.
 
VFL player review

Jake Stringer​

22 disposals, one goal, five marks

"Stringer looked powerful from stoppages played centre bounce mid at times then went forward. Showed his class, played unselfish trying to set up team mates and was good in the contest."
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VFL player review: Rd 1 v GWS

11 listed AFL players played in Sunday's matchup with GWS.
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I think he would be suited to being a sub this week. A high energy Stringer coming on in the 3rd would be very effective.
 
He usually starts off slow but that was frustrating. Wilkie have him a bath.
 
eth-dog said:
He usually starts off slow but that was frustrating. Wilkie have him a bath.
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On TV it just looked like we were just kicking it to Wilkie all night. Assuming you went, was Jake running decent leading patterns and we were botching the disposal into f50 or was Wilkie completely disrespecting Stringer and doing what he wanted?

Regardless it certainly looked like Jake was short of a gallop, touch wasn't quite there when he got near it, and that checkside attempt at goal looked like he was having a kick in the park it was that nonchalant
 
Pweter said:
On TV it just looked like we were just kicking it to Wilkie all night. Assuming you went, was Jake running decent leading patterns and we were botching the disposal into f50 or was Wilkie completely disrespecting Stringer and doing what he wanted?

Regardless it certainly looked like Jake was short of a gallop, touch wasn't quite there when he got near it, and that checkside attempt at goal looked like he was having a kick in the park it was that nonchalant
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Selection on Thursday felt like Voss was the one who'd been disrespected.
 
Pweter said:
On TV it just looked like we were just kicking it to Wilkie all night. Assuming you went, was Jake running decent leading patterns and we were botching the disposal into f50 or was Wilkie completely disrespecting Stringer and doing what he wanted?

Regardless it certainly looked like Jake was short of a gallop, touch wasn't quite there when he got near it, and that checkside attempt at goal looked like he was having a kick in the park it was that nonchalant
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A bit of part A and Part B. He was off the pace but some of the footy going inside 50 was average.
 
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