Jake Stringer - What do we want from him and how many goals for 2016

[hujsh]

It's interesting isn't it. More disposals, more goals, but a worse year? Doesn't make sense.
There's such a mob mentality in the media. One opinion starts a feeding frenzy.
Until the next 'big opinion' surfaces, then the feeding frenzy moves to that one.

He is down on average goals compared to last year. 2.2 to 2.8. It'd be hard to assume that he'll have as good a finish to the year considering he has less help up forwards without Crammers

[Ozza]

I think the criticism has been sparked mostly by the fact that we aren't scoring as heavily this season - so it is easiest to look at Stringer first, having been our number 1 forward.

Adding to that, is that the expectations of him in the public, is that he would become more dominant than last season - whereas his output has been fairly similar. Possibly another aspect of this, is that Jake has been a bit 'feast or famine' - having a handful of 5 goal games, but also a few goalless games. What doesn't help the perception of his form/lack of consistent form - is that his 'down' games have been against Hawthorn, North and Collingwood - which have been amongst our highest profile matches.

At the moment, he's pretty difficult to assess.
He is spending a large amount of time on the footy field not playing well - and then he has a phenomenal quarter and can win the game. I think last season he was more consistent throughout games - but perhaps having Dickson, Crameri and Redpath contributing more goals, made everyone watching less conscious of his quiet periods.

[The Pie Man]

The general consensus is Stringer isn't having as good a year as his All Australian year last year.

The stats say otherwise, by round 16 last year Stringer had kicked 31 goals. He's currently tally is 33. He is currently also averaging more disposals.

He did kick 23 in the last 7 games last year, but there's no reason he can't replicate that.

Puts him 10th in the Coleman - pretty decent for a forward his size that's spending a bit of time up the ground