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

 

[Vindicater]

Worst part of this injury is that it opens to the door for Heppell to back flank...

 

[Wahooti Fandango]

Now Cox has to go back.

 

[SpeckieMcVeigh]

i’m biased because he’s absolutely my favourite player currently playing, but he’s our second most important player. he’s classy, smart, and plays above and beyond his level when he needs to.

i can’t recall a game he’s played in the past few years that he hasn’t been a genuinely solid rock (sans injuries). he’s consistent. he’s great.

can’t say how glad i am he’s locked away

Second most important is selling him short, I'd argue he's more important than Merrett. I love Zach but we almost took Collingwood down without him on ANZAC Day. Whereas every single time Ridley is out we look like the worst team in football (and today was no different).

 

[Gabe251]

I can stomach 5 rounds.

 

[citizen-erased]

Now Cox has to go back.

Has to be the card we play
Cox is lost elsewhere.

 

[FlyingV]

Is this the quad he has been managing the pre-season.

Frustrating.

 

[ant555]

We have 6 years to get him right

 

[ant555]

Is this the quad he has been managing the pre-season.

Frustrating.

That was a calf.

 

[DallasCrane316]

Gia wasn’t giving much away. Referred to it as a tight quad

 

[Happyskeret]

I blame Kane Cornes for this.

 

[Nicholas61]

Second most important is selling him short, I'd argue he's more important than Merrett. I love Zach but we almost took Collingwood down without him on ANZAC Day. Whereas every single time Ridley is out we look like the worst team in football (and today was no different).

Reminds of a game against Adelaide a few years back - we won by a couple of points, I said to a mate at the time without him we probably lose by 8 goals he was that good and most that ordinary. Pure class, hard at it and an athlete, would have been a lock in any of our premiership teams I have seen (going back to the 80s). Quite worrying he was out for so long and has had a reocurrence. Scott will see to it that we get the best rehabilitation for him.

 

[yodellinhank]

Scott will see to it that we get the best rehabilitation for him.

I didn't think players could be traded the year they sign a contract extension?

 

[andleanback]

Who to play 3rd tall now? Laverde? Heppell? Cox?

Got to be cox. I’d rather him learn make mistakes because he’s going to have a higher ceiling than laverde who just always makes errors either defensively or ball in hand. Give cox the role

 

[andleanback]

Worst part of this injury is that it opens to the door for Heppell to back flank...

Shudders

The backline looked so much more balanced without heppell down there and laverde. Both bad ball users

 

[Chief Hopper]

Ridley has become one of our most important players.
When he goes down, our team just wilts.

Unsure who can take his place readily though. Cox is still learning and can get thrown off the ball. Heppel poor kicking and way too slow. Laverde has poor decision making. Ideally it would be Baldwin, but just our luck he's out injured too.

 

[Call Me Cake]

I'm so annoyed by this injury. Here's hoping that it's not as serious as first thought. You'd think having a couple weeks before our first match may help.

 

[Shanghaistu]

Ridley has become one of our most important players.
When he goes down, our team just wilts.

Unsure who can take his place readily though. Cox is still learning and can get thrown off the ball. Heppel poor kicking and way too slow. Laverde has poor decision making. Ideally it would be Baldwin, but just our luck he's out injured too.

Didn’t we have the chance to pick up a mature-age defender-type during the SSP or whatever it is but we turned it down in the end?

 

[outersanctum]

Frustrating injury to one of our most important players. This is a natural warning of why long term contracts are not worth it, especially when you consider the injury issues past two seasons.

Clearly something is missing in our training program if guys do the same injury over and over. Gotta hope it is a mild strain and we are only looking at the first month without him.

 

[andleanback]

Low grade quad strain. So probably 4-6 weeks.

 

[Beerfish]

Low grade quad strain. So likely probably 4-6 weeks.

Is that from the club somewhere or just your opinion?

 

[andleanback]

Is that from the club somewhere or just your opinion?

Essendon posted it on Twitter

 

[DallasCrane316]

 

[mike ross]

Essendon posted it on Twitter

 

[Vindicater]

Low grade so 2-4 weeks basically.

 

[carnthedons]

Low grade so 2-4 weeks basically.

Are you forgetting the Essendon loading where you need to use 2.3x the expectation?