11 field goals) from 159 games (Manly 122, Auckland 37), an average of 8.37 points per club game. Post-playing career In 2002, Matthew Ridge was chosen to host the original New Zealand version of television game show The Chair which first broadcast on ABC in January 2002 in the United States hosted by former tennis champion John McEnroe. Ridge later became a television presenter, working with his partner Marc Ellis in various sports-related shows like 'Game of Two Halves', and 'Marc & Matthew's Rocky Road to ...'. In 2021 he presented a TV series Designing Dreams on six New Zealand architects: Roger Walker, Pip Cheshire, Julie Stout, Nicholas Dalton, Anna Maria Chin and Michael O'Sullivan. Ridge became a board member of the Warriors (by then renamed the New Zealand Warriors) in 2009, when his friend Eric Watson bought the club. He was involved in a car accident in 2009, fracturing his pelvis and hip. Personal life Ridge and his first wife Sally Ridge, an interior designer and television presenter for TVNZ's Homefront. In November 2010, Ridge and his then-partner Carly Binding had a son, London Luca Ridge, and in December 2017, Ridge and his wife Chloe Alexa Liggins also had a son, Kenzo Axel Ridge. See also List of New Zealand television personalities References External links https://web.archive.org/web/20070212171518/http://www.sportingcontacts.co.nz/profile.asp?pid=34 Matthew Ridge at rugbymuseum.co.nz 1968 births Living people Dual-code rugby internationals Manly Warringah Sea Eagles captains Manly Warringah Sea Eagles players New Zealand international rugby union players New Zealand national rugby league team captains New Zealand national rugby league team players New Zealand people of Armenian descent New Zealand rugby league players New Zealand rugby union players New Zealand television presenters New Zealand Warriors captains New Zealand Warriors players People educated at Auckland Grammar School People educated at Mount Albert Grammar School Rugby league fullbacks Rugby league players from Rotorua Rugby union players from Rotorua