Jordan Bannister

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**Jordan Bannister**
Personal information

Birth	October 31, 1982 (1982-10-31) (age 25),
Recruited from	Therry-Penola (VIC-VAFA)/ Calder U18
Height and weight	190cm / 88kg
Playing career¹
Debut	Round 12, June 15, 2001, Essendon vs. Adelaide, at Docklands (Now Telstra Dome)
Team(s)	Essendon (2001-2003) 14 games, 0 goals Carlton (2004-) 51 games, 14 goals Total 65 games, 14 goals
¹ Statistics to end of Rnd 5, 2008 season
Career highlights

Jordan Bannister (born October 31, 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.