Secure your home tickets for the 2025 Rugby Championship today!<\/a><\/p>\nThe 30-year-old joins the Force after spending the past three seasons with Montpellier in France\u2019s Top 14.<\/p>\n
The winger was a big part of the All Blacks 2019 World Cup campaign, with 12 Test tries to his name.<\/p>\n
Bridge has played 82 Super Rugby games and scored 37 tries, helping the Crusaders to several Super Rugby titles.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m excited to be moving to WA and joining the Western Force,\u201d Bridge said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re a club heading in the right direction and I\u2019m keen to take on the new challenge and contribute to the club\u2019s success.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019ve always loved my time in Perth, and with friends and good connections among the staff and players, it felt like the right fit.” <\/p>\n
Bridge fills the void left by Harry Potter’s departure to the Waratahs, with coach Simon Cron pleased to secure his signature.<\/p>\n
“George is well known to a number of people on our staff and they can\u2019t speak highly enough of his professionalism, approach to the game and his rugby knowledge,” Cron said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s got a massive left foot kick. He can play multiple positions. He\u2019s a brilliant player. An amazing talent. He\u2019ll add to the guys that we have in the squad.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know when we have injuries, it\u2019s important we have depth so we can progress deep into Super Rugby finals.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s got a huge amount to give. He\u2019s been playing at Montpellier at Top 14 level. I know a few NZ franchises were chasing him hard, but he wanted to join the Force.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know George and his family were keen to come here and make Perth their chosen home, which is what we\u2019re all about. He\u2019ll add a lot to our environment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Western Force have continued their impressive recruitment drive after announcing the signing of 19-cap All Black George…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85,11229],"class_list":["post-44245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-western-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44245","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=44245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}