Jordan Bannister

Personal information
Birth	31 October 1982 (1982-10-31) (age 27)
Recruited from	Therry-Penola (VIC-VAFA)/ Calder U18
Height and weight	190cm / 88kg
Playing career¹
Debut	Round 12, 15 June 2001, Essendon vs. Adelaide, at Docklands (Now Etihad Stadium)
Team(s)	Essendon (2001-2003) 14 games, 0 goals Carlton (2004-2009) 53 games, 17 goals Total 67 games, 17 goals
¹ Statistics to end of 2008 season
Career highlights

Jordan Bannister (born 31 October 1982) is an Australian rules footballer who played for Carlton and Essendon 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 for the rest of the year. He played the first five games of 2008, but was struck down by injury and was unable to regain his position in the team for the rest of the year. In 2009, Bannister was unable to break into the Carlton senior team on a regular basis, playing only two games for the year. He was a member of the Bullants' losing grand final team in 2009. Bannister was delisted from the Carlton Football Club at the end of the 2009 season[1]. It has been reported that Bannister will now pursue a career in umpiring.

Jordan's younger brother Jarrod plays football for the Northern Bullants, and the pair has played many games alongside each other.

[edit] External links

• Jordan Bannister profile on the Official AFL Website of the Carlton Football Club
• Jordan Bannister's statistics from AFL Tables
• Jordan Bannister Profile in Blueseum

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