WESTERN Bulldogs star Jake Stringer has lashed a “bulls***” rumour surrounding the club as the reigning premiers try to get their season back on track.

Stringer posted an Instagram message to his almost 50,000 followers on Wednesday morning, where he hit out at those he believes are attempting to smear his ex-partner Abby Gilmore and teammate Jason Johannisen.

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“Let’s all get one thing straight!!! Abby is the best mum to my little girls and has not done one thing WRONG EVER,” Stringer wrote.

“Second of all Jason is a brother to ME. So if you wanna talk crap leave my family and mates alone go (somewhere) else cause it’s all bulls--t!!”

He ended his rant with the hashtag “#ENDOFSTORY”.

Gilmore, who has two children with Stringer and split with the footy star last year, took aim at “useless articles about some love triangle” via social media.

“Jason is my best mate. That’s it. That’s literally it, there’s no story,” Gilmore said in an Instagram story to her 92,000 followers.

“I don’t get it, I don’t know why people assume more ... I’ve never touched Jason and I never plan on it, just letting you know.

“He’s one of my best mates, always will be.

“I would just like to set the record straight and you’ve heard it from me here that what happened with Jake and I had nothing to do with Jason, he wasn’t even part of it so I don’t know how this has started.

“We were friends before kids, we were friends during kids and we’re friends while my kids are growing up, whether that be single or with someone so I don’t see why this is all pointing at Jason. It’s definitely to do with Jake and I and that’s it.”

As the football world looks for answers on the Bulldogs on-field struggles, earlier this week David Schwarz suggested off-field issues were also at play.

“There are players down there that aren’t seeing eye-to-eye on a number of issues, and some of them aren’t footy related,” Schwarz said on SEN.

On Wednesday morning Bulldogs captain Bob Murphy denied reports of infighting at the club.

Murphy said he was unaware of any such problems with team harmony, saying he was only made aware of it when he saw a tweet from Herald Sun Chief Football Writer Mark Robinson on Monday night.

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“I checked my phone before going to bed a couple of nights back and Robbo’s tweeted that Ox is running with this story that there’s infighting at the Dogs and I turned to my wife and said, ‘Who are they talking about?’. I genuinely don’t know,” Murphy said on SEN radio.