I’ve noticed from footage and reading the threads that Stringer has been training with the midfield group. Am I crazy in thinking he’s more important to our forward line? With the addition of Shiel, I think our mids can go 7-8 deep (Zerrett, Zaka, Heppell, Shiel, Smith, Myers, Langford + Parish) and its unnecessary for Stringer to play there.
He really adds another dimension to our forward line and think he’s going to be more useful there.
Or it’s just very easy to see someone with stringers history and interests getting sucked into the wormhole that is social media and having it not end well…
Watch a few replays from this year, he’s not quite getting his hands on it in the middle but he’s often dislodging blokes and getting little taps in, creating ball momentum. We started winning when we started moving the ball into space at all cost and relying on our extremely talented list to chase it and do something with it. Awesome option to run through there is Stringer.
I know what you mean Toms Dons but although Jakey is a bit on the bulky side, and lacks the massive tank required to be an on baller, he is strong at stoppages and it would be great if he can rotate through the midfield. It has been identified that we lack enough “big bodied mids” and that was not addressed by bringing in Shiel. So looking at our big bodies we basically have Hepp, Langers and Myers and Jake is definitely needed to add to those players, until we can bring on, say a Francis, Laverde or a Redman in that type of role.
All that aside, the club may have promised to give Jake midfield time before we recruited him, and if so, it would be unfair of the club to revert him to the forward line 1 year after making such an agreement, unless of course Jake agrees. It was pretty much acknowledged that we could not turn him into a midfielder in one pre-season. It might take another 2 years.