{"id":76228,"date":"2026-08-20T04:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T04:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/76228\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T04:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T04:23:09","slug":"afl-jake-stringer-set-to-return-to-melbourne-after-giants-stint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/76228\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL: Jake Stringer set to return to Melbourne after Giants stint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jake Stringer is expected to join his fourth club, announcing his intentions to exit the Giants in favour of a Victorian rival.<\/p>\n<p>The Giants forward is contracted until the end of next year, but expects his 250th game this weekend against Adelaide to be his last in orange.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll probably most likely go back to Melbourne, just for family reasons,\u201d Stringer said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy dad\u2019s been sick throughout this whole year and being away from my two girls back in Melbourne\u2019s been challenging.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just excited for this last game and \u2026 most likely it\u2019ll be my last game,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefinitely feel like I\u2019ve got quite a few more years left. But I\u2019ll just get through this weekend, reassess, spend some time with the family, go back home and work it out from there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He clarified there had been \u201cno decision or anything like that\u201d on a preferred Victorian destination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just looking forward to finishing it off here, enjoying more time with my teammates who I absolutely love, and go from there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Stringer played 37 games for the club since joining from Eessnedon at the end of 2024.<\/p>\n<p>He led the Bombers in goalkicking in three of his seven seasons at the club.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his 123 games at the Bombers he played 89 games for the Western Bulldogs, getting an all-Australian selection in 2015 followed by his only premiership in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Originally published as <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/sport\/afl\/jake-stringer-confirms-giants-exit-as-he-reveals-plan-for-victoria-return\/news-story\/8a0daafdc637dd702b6dd95f1b354baa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Stringer confirms Giants exit as he reveals plan for Victoria return<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Stringer is expected to join his fourth club, announcing his intentions to exit the Giants in favour&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[112786,40421,49275,64808,112780,112771,112775,112782,395,42014,112788,112778,112774,37343,2127,112776,112783,112769,50473,112790,112768,112770,74611,260,38364,89943,112773,45536,112787,1080,47236,112767,10152,15879,112785,112777,39887,112781,71266,39770,112784,38263,36700,43255,43025,112779,40130,112789,7444,112772],"class_list":["post-76228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-melbourne","tag-s-club-exit","tag-40421","tag-49275","tag-2024-he","tag-37-games","tag-89-games","tag-a-preferred-victorian-destination","tag-a-victorian-rival","tag-adelaide","tag-afl-star","tag-an-all-australian-selection","tag-eessnedon","tag-family-reasons","tag-favour","tag-giants","tag-his-123-games","tag-his-250th-game","tag-his-fourth-club","tag-his-intentions","tag-his-last","tag-his-only-premiership","tag-his-seven-seasons","tag-jake-stringer","tag-melbourne","tag-more-time","tag-my-dad","tag-my-last-game","tag-my-teammates","tag-my-two-girls","tag-newswire-sport","tag-next-year","tag-no-decision-or-anything","tag-orange","tag-plan","tag-quite-a-few-more-years","tag-sad-reason","tag-some-time","tag-stringer","tag-the-bombers","tag-the-club","tag-the-club-prior","tag-the-end","tag-the-family","tag-the-giants","tag-the-western-bulldogs","tag-this-last-game","tag-this-weekend","tag-this-whole-year","tag-thursday","tag-victoria-return"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}