Now I would like to see that.
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Essendon supporters like to point out that Smith won the B&F but with all due respect to them that's a bit like being the best looking member of the Bolshevik leadership in 1918. It's all relative.
That could work. Ask Jake whatever his plans are fitness wise and then do the opposite.
‘He’s looked horrible’: Riewoldt debates Bombers star’s lack of fitness
St Kilda great Nick Riewoldt believes Jake Stringer has plenty of work to do to get himself back to peak AFL fitness.
The Essendon star has struggled since returning to the side after a long injury lay-off, collecting just 27 disposals in the last five rounds.
The Bombers appear to have potentially rushed the former Bulldog back, given his poor feats in recent weeks, as the club searched for a spark to get the team into finals.
“He’s looked horrible since he came back,” Riewoldt said on Fox Footy.
“Only Essendon would know whether he’s done the work or not. He’s been labouring and to the eye you wouldn’t say he’s a picture of fitness.
“Only they can answer that question, all we can do is judge it on what we see and he doesn’t look overly fit.”
Recently, former Port Adelaide tagger Kane Cornes took aim at his appearance, after vision emerged of the 26-year-old with his guernsey off.
“I‘ll get smashed for this and the PC brigade will come after me,” he told Channel 9’s Sunday Footy Show.
“If you‘re a full-time professional athlete, you don’t present yourself like that. To steal (Port Adelaide coach) Ken Hinkley’s line, you get what you deserve in footy.
“That‘s why he returns five disposals yesterday, he’s not fit enough. When you don’t perform and present that out of shape, you run the risk of being criticised for it.
“He needs to look at what Christian Petracca has done and what Max Gawn has done in the past if he wants to get the most out of that talent because that display of physical fitness is not good enough.”
It's all good and well to pot Jakey for turning into a pudding but there's still been no satisfactory explanations forthcoming for this.
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Numbers not exactly through the roof prior to his injury layoff. For mine he and Essendon were made for each other, flat track bullies.
Despite being the AFL's resident basket case for most of the last 10 years, Melbourne have still won more finals (2) than Essendon & St Kilda combined.
He picked the right team to go to as far as getting away with stuff if you have any talent.
Fitness program must be a shambles if he is still getting a game looking like he is.
His third year at the bombers and he has shown no signs of improving and is getting chubbier.
One things for sure, he will get a Massive write up in summer on how he is chaffing at the bit to play round one next year.
If Daniher leaves he will be their main forward, can’t see the bombers going anywhere but deeper down ATM, Also can’t see any light at the end of the tunnel either.
Did we see this from Woosha last week ?
If that's not a crack at their cheating past, I'm not sure what is. So much so he had to back pedal yesterday because "Essendon people" had a whinge.
"Essendon people think that Essendon should be better but they've also got to understand that the competition challenges clubs now to work to the same rules".
So he is admitting they used to have different rules to everyone else ?
Biggest slap ever if ever I’ve heard one.
I think even him being coach the arrogance of the club got too much for him.
Sounds like he was shut down trying to change the club and they wouldn’t listen and they still think they have different rules.
They were absolutely horrid tonight, Melbourne aren’t much better considering what they were playing for, be an injustice if they get in the 8 and we don’t.
It gets better and better:
IS THERE A PLAYER EXODUS LOOMING AT ESSENDON?