\n Defender confirms commitment to Club.\n <\/p>\n
Jordan Ridley has confirmed his commitment to Essendon.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Citing his faith in the Club\u2019s coaching staff, an emerging playing group and the heavy focus on bolstering their high-performance area, Ridley is determined to get back to his best with the Bombers, where he\u2019s contracted until the end of 2029.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis off-season gave me a crucial opportunity to reflect on a challenging few years with injury. During that time, it became incredibly clear that my future is with Essendon,\u201d Ridley said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m fully committed to playing my best football here.\u00a0I have immense faith in Brad Scott\u00a0and the direction he’s taking this developing group.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter meeting with our new High Performance team, led by Mat Inness, I\u2019ve been really impressed and confident we have the right strategy in place to overcome my recent injury challenges and get me back to my best.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMy decision was also driven by my great belief in this playing group and the exciting young talent coming through.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI love this club, I want success for this club, and I\u2019ll be doing everything I can to return success to Essendon for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n
104 games into his career, the former Crichton Medallist is one of the game\u2019s premier intercepting defenders at his best and an integral starter in the Dons\u2019 side.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The show of faith in the club after his difficult two years on the injury front is important for the club, but also a great reflection of Jordan\u2019s character.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo have Jordan Ridley fully committed to our club is terrific news,\u201d GM of List and Recruiting Matt Rosa said.<\/p>\n
“We\u2019ve spoken externally numerous times about how integral he is to our side as a player, to our youngsters as a leader and to our people as a Clubman, and he\u2019s always been fully aware of that.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was important to us that Jordan was able to meet with Mat (Inness) to fully understand the important changes we are implementing within our high performance programs. We are now looking forward to them building a strong relationship and putting a plan in place to get Jordan back to his best.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defender confirms commitment to Club. Jordan Ridley has confirmed his commitment to Essendon.\u00a0\u00a0 Citing his faith in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-163882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-text","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}