It might be a different story in training. I recall an interview with Beams saying the difference between Pendlebury and Swan was that Swan never took training seriously.
Stringer might be one of those guys who will give it all in a match but not in training.
Fletch.
Iād add a softening or limiting criteria in there. Not that I donāt agree with the three you have. I also think that a much stronger attitude to those things is required from us as a club.
However you have some downright terrible people that meet those criteria as they stand alone.
Not very limiting, but sufficient.
Make players around you better
Can anyone confirm are they practicing the flick at training, this would work well for us as we have outside speed.
Was there training today?
Whoās?
Iām seeing a lot of Richmond chasing/harrasing type stuff in these training vids canāt wait to see it in action
Actually yes I can. He is a good mark, strong overhead. Itās a strength of his.
He doesnāt chase and tackle and work hard defensively, i reckon thatās the main reason he wouldnāt be in the leadership group. Everything else he has been good at though.
Hmmm I donāt believe this is really an issue. His tackling numbers are good, and substantially higher at Essendon than at the Bulldogs.
If there has been a lack of chase, itās usually because of fitness. Not desire.
On tv looks ok but live at games ive watched him closely and he often lets the defender run out of d50 with no effort to chase. I think thats the reason he doesnāt poll too highly in the bnf despite being one of our best and most consistent players since coming to the club.
heppell is glacially slow and applies sfa pressure.
tight in the contest, when stringer is around the ball, he applies as much as, if not more, pressure and hardness than anyone.
Stringer is not in the leadership group because he doesnt apply pressure. Im always bemused when people automatically assume he should be thereā¦ im not sure why
Hes lifted his off field game, thats for sure, as an on field leaderā¦ never really seen it. When I think of leader, I do not think of Jake Stringer. If he is in our leadership group then IMO we lack solid leaders.
So was BJ Goddard. All it seemed to bring him was ridicule.
We must have been watching a different player, coz there were times last year that Stringer was the only guy out there applying pressure and playing with urgency.
Generally forwards will do this. Then if thereās a fast turnover you have Jakey alone inside 50.
I would hazard to guess that heās hanging back to hold the structure of the forward line and to prevent himself gassing chasing defenders too far up the field.
Some times being a dangerous forward can force an opposition player to mitigate/second guess his offensive runs in favour of a more defensive mindset.
Thatās because weāve had a list of players for 19 years, that have been happy going through the motions and getting a pay checkā¦ without being challenged.
Iām trying to say that stringer does apply pressure