AFL Player #25: Jake Stringer - Contract year incoming

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Contract Status: Out of contract 2024

My Boy Draft 2024: Pick 19, Harlequin
 
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kleanr

Team Captain
Dec 9, 2008
550
668
Melbourne
AFL Club
Essendon
Finally found the selection panel and with the exception of Lachlan's dad and Hey Jude, all are head-wobblers and prove the point
Gillon McLachlan (non-voting Chairman), Andrew Dillon, Chris Johnson, Glen Jakovich, Warren Tredrea, Cameron Ling, Jude Bolton, Matthew Richardson, Nick Riewoldt and Kevin Bartlett make up the All-Australian selection panel.
 

Towno78

Premiership Player
Nov 6, 2009
3,821
3,172
AFL Club
Essendon
My only issue is how much half forward does Bont actually play ? Same with Pretracca this year. Both can play forward extremely well but unless I missed something they did play mainly midfield this year. You could argue Fritsch should have got one of the forward spots as a medium forward giev he kicked 47 goals. It seems to be the same all the time. Midfielders in the half forward spots.
Absolutely. No issue with midfielders being named on the hff. So long as they actually rotate through there at times.
As Stringer did all year. No other midfielder came within cooee of Stringer's 39 goals.
 
Hopefully not rubbed out for round 1

Second angle didn't look as bad, but will still be in trouble.

That said, love that he went to fly the flag for Merrett.
 

ghostdog

Brownlow Medallist
Oct 18, 2008
16,009
11,854
gondawanaland
AFL Club
Essendon
Second angle didn't look as bad, but will still be in trouble.

That said, love that he went to fly the flag for Merrett.
Yes, loved that. In the regular season, not so much depending on the circumstance, but at that stage of the game/season today, yes. That was a different Essendon beast than the team of recent years. Long may that attitude and aggression remain.
 
$1500 fine for striking.
Jake Stringer, Essendon, has been charged with Striking Lewis Young, Western Bulldogs during the third quarter of the Elimination Final between the Western Bulldogs and Essendon, played at UTAS Stadium on Sunday, August 29, 2021.

In summary, he can accept a $1500 sanction with an early plea.

Based on the available evidence, the incident was assessed as Striking (Fixed Financial Sanction). The incident was classified as a $2500 sanction as a first offence. The player can accept a $1500 sanction with an early plea.
 
Sundays game showed why you do not actually name Stringer as a midfielder. With very few center bounces in a low scoring game his impact in the middle was minimal with just one clearance . He is primarily a forward who takes the center bounces. He is good at it and it works for us but you still have to have that 5th or 6th midfielder in the rotation to start at half forward and move into the midfield as Jake is pushing forward.
 

12Chill

Norm Smith Medallist
Jun 13, 2014
5,270
12,395
AFL Club
St Kilda
Just posted the Jake Stringer highlight reel for this year, enjoy!

 

Vander18

Norm Smith Medallist
Apr 22, 2011
5,397
8,368
AFL Club
Essendon
If he doubles down on his newfound commitment to physical fitness he can reach another level.....he can be as damaging a player as exists in the comp.

Hoping to see photos on Twitter of Jake churning out solo 400m reps at the Hangar sometime soon!
 
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