'Overweight' Dons star grilled over injury woes

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Essendon prima Jake Stringer has been grilled implicit his deficiency of fittingness pursuing yet different pre-season interrupted by wounded issues.

While subordinate fittingness levels person been a cardinal absorption successful caller manager Brad Scott's archetypal pre-season astatine the club, Stringer has been forced to acquisition modified grooming implicit the past week owed to a backmost issue.

The 28-year-old guardant sat retired an intra-club crippled connected Wednesday owed to backmost soreness stemming from a grooming league past week.

It's the 2nd consecutive twelvemonth that Stringer's pre-season has been halted by an wounded aft helium dealt with a groin contented 12 months earlier, and Port Adelaide large Kane Cornes called retired the mercurial prima for his evident deficiency of preparation.

"I was taken aback erstwhile photos emerged of Stringer presenting for time 1 of pre-season," Cornes wrote successful a file for SEN.

"By an elite athlete's standards, helium was overweight. Again.

"And present he's injured, and his pre-season has been interrupted. Again."

Cornes called connected Scott and Essendon to beryllium ruthless with Stringer, urging the nine to reflector South Africa's determination to permission retired prima Dane Van Niekerk from its T20 World Cup squad owed to a 2km clip proceedings result.

"Until Stringer achieves strict fittingness and assemblage measurement goals, Scott should not see picking him successful the elder team," Cornes wrote.

"In Scott's words, Essendon requires hard work, subject and unity to execute agelong overdue success- unfortunately, his astir talented subordinate has shown nary of the three.

"Jake Stringer is destined to beryllium different talented subordinate than ne'er reached their potential. He lone has himself to blame."

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