AFL Player #14: Jordan Ridley - Wins Yiooken in first game back - 25/5

[Beerfish]

Contract Status: Unrestricted Free Agent 2029
My Boy Draft 2024: Pick 3, Dave

 

[jannissary]

Get Cox back
Lose Ridley

we need some form of sacrifice to the footy gods. feels they are still angered over the drugs stuff :S

we have a certain midfielder who'd make a good sacrifice, starting with d and ending in arcy parsih

 

[Wahooti Fandango]

 

[Lore]

we have a certain midfielder who'd make a good sacrifice, starting with d and ending in arcy parsih

arcy parsi ey

 

[Hamez]

This statement shows how much he watches Essendon games:

 

[Lore]

This statement shows how much he watches Essendon games:

Ralph isn't tooooo bad. On a scale from Gerard Whateley to Zero Hanger, he's probably about a 6.

Actually, rating/ranking journalists might make a half decent off-season thread

 

[jannissary]

arcy parsi ey

maybe!

 

[eth-dog]

Ralph isn't tooooo bad. On a scale from Gerard Whateley to Zero Hanger, he's probably about a 6.

Actually, rating/ranking journalists might make a half decent off-season thread

He's horrific. Genuinely mind blowingly bad.

 

[Lore]

He's horrific. Genuinely mind blowingly bad.

He tends to report what he knows rather than what he thinks, and generally in good English. I can think of plenty who are worse.

 

[eth-dog]

He tends to report what he knows rather than what he thinks, and generally in good English. I can think of plenty who are worse.

Maybe it's the oh so punchable head and the arrogance that drips off of him.

 

[TheGrizz]

This statement shows how much he watches Essendon games:

In fairness, he took Allen in the second half vs WCE after he towelled up Zerk earlier this year.
Same with Larkey.

Ralph isn't tooooo bad. On a scale from Gerard Whateley to Zero Hanger, he's probably about a 6.

Actually, rating/ranking journalists might make a half decent off-season thread

Just for clarity, which end of the scale is which?

 

[Lore]

Just for clarity, which end of the scale is which?

In terms of trust as a source of information? Or headpunchableness?

 

[Keystone agony]

In terms of trust as a source of information? Or headpunchableness?

Dont reckon many want to punch Whately in the head

 

[Beerfish]

Dont reckon many want to punch Whately in the head

Is this with or without the Nike stud?

 

[TheGrizz]

In terms of trust as a source of information? Or headpunchableness?

The first. I presume Whateley is the 10, but he is a bit polarizing so wanted to be sure haha.

 

[Duckworth]

Was not innocuous

In what way did you arrive at that conclusion?

 

[Keystone agony]

In what way did you arrive at that conclusion?

Had to pull his kick, change his natural technique

It wasnt just a loop in the park normal kick

 

[Duckworth]

Had to pull his kick, change his natural technique

It wasnt just a loop in the park normal kick

Also, no contact or body contorted into an awkward position or awkward landing. Pulling a kick (if we accept that's what he did) would happen many times during a game, and is far from something you would expect to cause an injury - ergo something that is pretty harmless. I think maybe the issue might be your interpretation of the word innocuous...

 

[Lore]

Also, no contact or body contorted into an awkward position or awkward landing. Pulling a kick (if we accept that's what he did) would happen many times during a game, and is far from something you would expect to cause an injury - ergo something that is pretty harmless. I think maybe the issue might be your interpretation of the word innocuous...

Could've already had a knock/tiny tear and thought it was a bruise or a corkie or something else minimal/relatively routine and played through it, only for it to give way. Perhaps at the same time as the hyper-extension the week before, or earlier in the same game he did the quad.

 

[Duckworth]

Could've already had a knock/tiny tear and thought it was a bruise or a corkie or something else minimal/relatively routine and played through it, only for it to give way. Perhaps at the same time as the hyper-extension the week before, or earlier in the same game he did the quad.

I had wondered the same thing myself, if there might have been a flow on from the knee hyperextension in the previous week. Other posters have suggested a role in knee's and/or backs having an effect on the quads. Watching the kick, there really didn't look like much to it, so I agree, likely to be something else at play.

 

[Lore]

I had wondered the same thing myself, if there might have been a flow on from the knee hyperextension in the previous week. Other posters have suggested a role in knee's and/or backs having an effect on the quads. Watching the kick, there really didn't look like much to it, so I agree, likely to be something else at play.

It's logical that an injury or uneven conditioning (either post-injury or just in general) would mess things up. It is all connected, after all. I suspect even just practicing kicking only on one foot over a period of time would cause uneven strength in various muscles and on different sides of the body, and place strain in places that aren't equipped to handle that load.

Doesn't mean it's directly related though, it could just as easily be a separate injury. Plenty of people do quads without doing knees first, and knees without ever doing a quad. But by the same token, it's quite common for a strengthening program to include quads after a knee injury to reduce the load going through those tendons and prevent re-injury...

 

[Lore]

Not on the injury list

 

[faible]

Not on the injury list

He was on the Instagram one they posted; 6-8 weeks

 

[Lore]

From the team selection;

Jordan Ridley (quad) is set to miss the rest of the regular season after suffering an injury to his quad against the Bulldogs.

Rd 20: Team selection v Sydney Swans

Menzie returns while Stringer and Ridley are set to miss.

www.essendonfc.com.au

 

[DERO]

Maybe it's the oh so punchable head and the arrogance that drips off of him.

It is the eyebrows. They are not from this world.

 

[Yoda_]

Seen a few comments about moving Ridley away from the role he is playing.

Can we not be happy with what he does so exceptionally well ? If he continues on the trajectory he has been on the last 24 months, he could very well end up a multiple All Australian such is the quality I see in him.