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.”

 

[bennyg12]

Play the Benny Hill music

 

[andleanback]

Murphy pack your bags. Different leg but he looked so underdone Sunday. Have no idea how we allow one of our best assets to role out massively underdone, horrible management.

 

[Hamez]

Was probably overcompensating due to the original hamstring injury not being recovered.

 

[Schnitzengruben]

Rushed back from injury underdone from a fitness perspective and re-injures himself. We are a complete circus atm.

 

[bennyg12]

How does Cripps do a 1 week hammy , but every time we do it's 6-8 weeks

 

[Runk]

I knew it

 

[BomberTime]

The club is going well.

 

[Lore]

Did anyone else think the footage of stringer coming off to get treatment, only to then jump up off the mat, tell the person controlling the interchange sign he was coming on, unquestioned, and then running onto the field… look a bit weird?
Feels like he’s left to his own devices sometimes. Ie not running 2km in 7 years etc etc

Maybe I just don’t understand the process on interchange that well…

 

[Lore]

How does Cripps do a 1 week hammy

Stringer was a 1-2 week hamstring last time and came back after 12 days,

but every time we do it's 6-8 weeks

this time it's 3-4 weeks

 

[eth-dog]

Oh ffs.

Bring Bryan in for him then

 

[citizen-erased]

 

[essendon]

What a flipping joke.....club is cooked, shet doctors and sports medicos got absolutely NFI....sorry but we pay to watch professional footballers and this is so unacceptable......say what you want, but this is seriously pathetic.....and its round 8.......

Langford hammy in rd 1 first 10 mins
Phillips hammy first 10 mins of his last game
Snelling reinjures calf first game back and lasts 2 qtrs
Harry Jones - does anyone remember him....apparently plays in the forward line for us....cant get him right - reminds me of Gumbleton, Daniher......always injured
Stringer - groin, hammy, hammy............................................next
Stewart - calf too.....is he still around


...its actually not even funny how bad this looks on top of a lazy CBF attitude with a crap game plan no one is actually remotely interested in with no real structure or energy.........

.......at a lost right now.....

 

[Lore]

Oh ffs.

Bring Bryan in for him then

I could see Shiel for Stringer in a straight swap, given Stringer took all the CBAs in the first half and Shiel in the second half last week. Shiel is supposed to rotate forward anyway so it's a similar split, though Perkins and Martin probably spend more time further up the ground than they currently do. Smith or Ham as the sub.

If Cox comes out, which he might since he was subbed (and to be subbed the doctor has to declare that the player is likely to miss 12 days), then Perkins/Caldwell maybe pick up some more midfield minutes, maybe Martin on a wing a little more, and Bryan probably comes into the forward line at that point to chop out for Draper, although Phillips could also be available this week which could spoil it.

 

[Maxabillions]

Sean Murphy, from the Hawks highly regarded fitness department and was supposed to be good at his job if I remember correctly. Hmmm

 

[Lore]

Also some chance of Francis coming in if his knee is okay, he missed last week but his VFL game the week before was wing and midfield as well as kicking goals and some time in defence.

 

[windyhill]

Running around at about 70%, not a good look.

What a ****ing joke.

 

[andleanback]

I could see Shiel for Stringer in a straight swap, given Stringer took all the CBAs in the first half and Shiel in the second half last week. Shiel is supposed to rotate forward anyway so it's a similar split, though Perkins and Martin probably spend more time further up the ground than they currently do. Smith or Ham as the sub.

If Cox comes out, which he might since he was subbed (and to be subbed the doctor has to declare that the player is likely to miss 12 days), then Perkins/Caldwell maybe pick up some more midfield minutes, maybe Martin on a wing a little more, and Bryan probably comes into the forward line at that point to chop out for Draper, although Phillips could also be available this week which could spoil it.

You really believe the dr has to sign off on that hahaha. The 12 day sign off is a joke this season.

 

[citizen-erased]

Burgess and taylor to go with mahoney please

 

[Lore]

You really believe the dr has to sign off on that hahaha. The 12 day sign off is a joke this season.

I didn't know it was a thing until I was reading an article today questioning the validity of the sub and how some clubs are apparently questioning whether it's being abused. They have to lodge paperwork with the AFL that it's likely to be 12 days or more unavailable, but they can send another medical opinion revising the amount of time the player will be unavailable after a couple of days later if it changes.

 

[FlyingV]

Pretty extraordinary really….

 

[TheGrizz]

Murphy seems to have a problem with hammys, and bringing Stringer back so early may have put too much pressure on the other hammy

Like he got Zach back from a syndesmosis in 4 weeks and despite what the media will admit he was the one to finally get Daniher right and ready to go.

Pretty conflicted about him to be honest.

 

[FlyingV]

Murphy seems to have a problem with hammys, and bringing Stringer back so early may have put too much pressure on the other hammy

Like he got Zach back from a syndesmosis in 4 weeks and despite what the media will admit he was the one to finally get Daniher right and ready to go.

Pretty conflicted about him to be honest.

Caldwell seems to be going okay, although that could be due to the quality of the surgery. Same goes with Langford. They both did hammys under his watch…

 

[Lore]

Murphy seems to have a problem with hammys, and bringing Stringer back so early may have put too much pressure on the other hammy

Like he got Zach back from a syndesmosis in 4 weeks and despite what the media will admit he was the one to finally get Daniher right and ready to go.

Pretty conflicted about him to be honest.

Snelling, calf. Jones, whatever the hell is wrong with that ankle.

It seems like once specialists are involved and doing scans and tests, making treatment plans etc. it's okay. But I wonder if more minor injuries are just RICER for a week or two and if they pull up okay, onwards! There'd still be the club doctor involved, though, surely? Not just the head physio or whatever his actual job is supposed to be.

 

[andleanback]

I didn't know it was a thing until I was reading an article today questioning the validity of the sub and how some clubs are apparently questioning whether it's being abused. They have to lodge paperwork with the AFL that it's likely to be 12 days or more unavailable, but they can send another medical opinion revising the amount of time the player will be unavailable after a couple of days later if it changes.

I doubt that paper work even needs to be sent these days.

 

[Lore]

I doubt that paper work even needs to be sent these days.

That would be so like the AFL. Who even needs policies