{"id":30628,"date":"2021-02-04T08:52:02","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T09:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=30628"},"modified":"2021-02-04T14:06:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T14:06:17","slug":"stringer-sends-injury-scare-through-dons-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=30628","title":{"rendered":"Stringer sends injury scare through Dons camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Essendon&#x27;s pre-season has been dealt a double injury blow with both <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/afl\/jake-stringer\" title=\"Jake Stringer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jake Stringer<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/afl\/michael-hurley\" title=\"Michael Hurley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Hurley<\/a> facing a race against time to be fit for the season opener.<\/p>\n<p>Hurley is being treated for a leg infection in hospital and has failed to train this week, while Stringer is battling with Achilles and calf pain.<\/p>\n<p>Stringer left Essendon&#x27;s training session on Thursday feeling his calf and was assessed by the team&#x27;s medical staff before undergoing scans after training.<\/p>\n<p>According to <em>AFL.com.au<\/em>, Stringer&#x27;s injury does not appear to be a &quot;serious setback&quot;.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"09474dbd-6bf3-4063-a2f0-3895b00cc292\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/09474dbd-6bf3-4063-a2f0-3895b00cc292\" alt=\"Harrison Jones\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stringer, whose <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/afl\/kane-cornes-questions-jake-stringer-fitness-after-essendon-lose-to-port-adelaide\/b4205204-eee6-4546-8719-c5efd7a84a90\" title=\"2020 season was crippled by a syndesmosis injury\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2020 season was crippled by a syndesmosis injury<\/a>, has been battling Achilles issues all pre-season and had only just joined Essendon&#x27;s full training group.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old is expected to be vital to coach Ben Rutten&#x27;s forward line in 2021 after the off-season departures of Joe Daniher and Orazio Fantasia. <\/p>\n<p>While the injury is a blow, Stringer is expected to recover in time for Essendon&#x27;s Round 1 clash against Hawthorn on March 20.<\/p>\n<p>Hurley&#x27;s infection also comes at an inopportune time for the Bombers&#x27; forward structures, with the veteran expected to play up forward this season.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Essendon&#x27;s pre-season has been dealt a double injury blow with both Jake Stringer and Michael Hurley facing a race against time to be fit for <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=30628\" title=\"Stringer sends injury scare through Dons camp\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30630,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30628\/revisions\/30630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}