Jordan Bannister

Infobox afl player


firstname = Jordan
lastname = Bannister


| birthdate = Birth date and age|df=yes|1982|10|31
birthplace =
originalteam = Therry-Penola (VIC-VAFA)/ Calder U18
heightweight = 190cm / 88kg
dead = alive
deathdate =
deathplace =
debutdate = Round 12, 15 June 2001
debutteam = Essendon
debutopponent = Adelaide
debutstadium = Docklands (Now Telstra Dome)
playingteams = Essendon (2001-2003) 14 games, 0 goals

Carlton (2004-) 51 games, 15 goals

Total

65 games, 15 goals
coach = notcoach
coachingteams =
statsend = 2008
careerhighlights =

Jordan Bannister (born 31 October 1982) is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.

He made his debut for the Essendon Football Club in Round 12, 2001 against Adelaide. He was delisted by Essendon at the end of the 2003 season, and decided to re-nominate for the national draft, where he was selected by the Carlton Football Club with their sixth round selection (#69 overall). He made his debut there in Round 1, 2004 against Fremantle. He has been noted as a hard-running defender, often taking tagging roles on mobile forwards. He polled two Brownlow Medal votes against Collingwood in a shut down role against Nathan Buckley. He struggled for regular selection in 2005, finally breaking through for a regular berth in mid-2006, playing ten out of eleven games before being suspended.

He began the 2007 season playing with the Northern Bullants in the VFL, and it appeared that he would struggle for selection under Carlton's youth policy. He was brought back to the seniors against the hard-running Western Bulldogs, and made an immediate impact with consecutive shut-downs of Brad Johnson and Chad Cornes, ensuring his position in the team in the immediate future.

External links

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*AflRleague|ref=J/Jordan_Bannister.html
* [http://www.blueseum.org/cfc/tiki-index.php?page=Jordan+Bannister Jordan Bannister Profile in Blueseum]