Jake Stringer is the talisman for the Bombers today, #2 ranked for the league in 2021 and #1 ranked after the byes, in a forward/mid role. Critics may say he hasn't put a full season together and most of his big games came against non-finalists, but today is the day to prove them wrong. At his best he is an unstoppable force surging from the centre and ramming through scores himself or setting them up for others. Essendon is going to need a lot of that in wet conditions where Peter Wright is unlikely to reproduce his seven-goal haul from the last time these two teams met at Docklands.
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