#25 Jake Stringer (Part 1)

[Zimmer]

Susie O’brien, deserves no readership.

[SheedsIsOurFather]

@miss_ellie. Who is the white witch?

[Zimmer]

Getting back on topic: 25 seems the perfect number for him. Hope he can live up to it. Think I’m going to enjoy watching this guy for the next 10 years.

[NiftyNev2]

From the white witch (red witch has retired), no link tis subscriber only (Essendon sells yet again)

AFL love rat Jake Stringer doesn’t deserve redemption

The redemption of new Essendon recruit Jake Stringer seems almost complete.

How quickly people forget he recently cheated on his pregnant fiancee with a teenager.

Details about Stringer’s disgraceful private life were revealed by his former fiancee Abby Gilmore back in September.

Gilmore told the Herald Sun her personal life was shattered when she received a text from a 17-year-old telling her she was having sex with Stringer.

Their second child was just six-weeks-old when Gilmore was then met with “a seemingly endless parade of girls” who left messages with “in-your-face taunts about their sex sessions” with Stringer, 23, some sending nude photographs of the premiership player.

Gilmore also claimed Stringer had a gambling addiction and had gambled away their life’s savings.

Stringer now has a new football club and a new image that doesn’t seem to be affected by the kind of partner he was to Gilmore. We learn that he’s lost four kilos, is doing boxing training and can’t wait for the new season to start.

His treatment of Gilmore and their two daughters has moved from front page to become a more nebulous “off-field issue”.

What a cop-out for his new club Essendon. For too long football clubs have propped up stars with personal problems as long as they perform on the field.

I wish more clubs would follow the lead of the Geelong Cats and pick “character over talent”, as CEO Brian Cook puts it.

I strongly disagree with footy commentator Mike Sheahan, who said Stringer’s off-field life shouldn’t have anything to do with his sporting career.

Now all the focus is back on Stringer the player, not Stringer the love rat.

He’s “honoured to be handed the No 25 jumper”. He’s “bouncing back”. He’s had a “massive pre-season of toil”.

So, no doubt, has Gilmore, who has the lion’s share of raising their two young daughters.

These days there seems to be little mention of Stringer’s infidelity, which is strange given that two AFL executives — Simon Lethlean and Richard Simkiss — lost their jobs after cheating on their wives with co-workers.

At the time, AFL chief Gillon McLachlan said the two men were role models and “set a standard of behaviour for the rest of the organisation”.

So why don’t we hold AFL players to the same stringent standards?

Now all the focus is on Stringer meeting “some of the club’s off-field expectations around preparation, rehabilitation and diet”.

There’s no mention of what he did to his ex-partner and daughters.

His team mates are reportedly excited to have him on the team and are “impressed by the former Bulldog’s attitude”.

“He is doing all the right things,” one was quoted as saying.

I wonder how Abby Gilmore feels reading that.

“He is a young man and obviously he probably would have done a few things differently,” his team mate said.

“He is just happy to be back and going to go about his work.”

How convenient that Stringer gets to “go about his work” while his ex-fiancee has little choice but to look after his children.

Essendon chief executive Xavier Campbell has revealed Bombers officials met with 10-12 people close to Jake Stringer before signing him.

It would appear this group didn’t include Abby Gilmore.

Sounds like a case for redemption to me. Irrespective of his past issues good luck to him. Hopefully he’ll learn from his mistakes and support his family.

PS- f@rk Carlton.
PPs- f@rk wilson.

[Zimmer]

Wasn’t written by Wilson. Was written by that feminist crusader, O’Brien.

[NiftyNev2]

Wasn’t written by Wilson. Was written by that feminist crusader, O’Brien.

F@rk O’Brien

[alex.f.94]

seriously reckon the article should be deleted. its 100% cancerous bile.

[True_Value_Blitzer]

You’ll love it Caro you ****when he slams through his 5th in the Dreamtime game and seals the win after fending Cotchin the fark off

[Zimmer]

[miss_ellie]

Suzie O’Brien

[effendon]

The Herald Sun is seriously a load of garbage, it doesn’t surprise me that they would publish something like this alongside Bolt and Panahi, I honestly can’t remember Caroline Wilson ever writing something as rubbish as this.

[bigallan]

Haha Geelong and Ablett senior?

[Rhino-D]

So Robbo’s just giving out jobs to twitter trolls now is he?

Sounds about right.

[SheedsIsOurFather]

Never heard of her.

[Zimmer]

Never heard of her.

She writes most of her articles about Sam Newman. There is surely a book coming out soon.

[Words]

Jake’s infidelity should not be newsworthy, and I fail to see how it can serve to define his character. People who’ve been at both ends of these scenarios would know the truth is more nuanced and multi-faceted than simply admonishing someone for cheating.

What I dislike even more is the failure of this journalist to secure any duty of care for Jake’s family by publishing the story. It wasn’t so long ago that Jake was a teenager himself. The implication that he’s some sort of pervert like Woody Allen or Mark Twain is ridiculous.

I suppose there’s no fairness in footy journalism.

[Humble_Minion]

To me, that article shows a level of inflated ego that’s just off the charts.

Stringer’s wife (rightly) left him and took the kids because of what he did. And some random journo actually says he hasn’t paid a price simply because he hasn’t been paraded in front of a news conference for a bout of ritual humiliation?

He’s paid an enormous price, but media people think the media is the centre of the ■■■■■■■ universe and if punishment doesn’t happen on camera supervised by finger-wagging journos then it hasn’t happened at all

The guy blew it and lost his wife and kids. That’s something that’s entirely his own fault and will haunt him the rest of his days. And this moron says he hasn’t paid a price!.

[tinhillterror]

Probably one of the worst articles written about anything remotely related to footy in a long time, probably forever.

[loyalandproud]

Agree- just a nasty article serving no purpose at all.

[Killer_Mike]

It’s just click bait.

I’m surprised that people respect that hate monger enough to discuss it.