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Six games into his Manly career, Ridge was selected to play for the New Zealand national rugby league team against the touring Great Britain team. He did so again during the 1992 Great Britain Lions tour of Australasia.
Ridge played and kicked goals in each of the 1995 Trans-Tasman Test series' three games against Australia. Ridge finished the 1995 ARL season as the League's top point-scorer. At the end of the season he played for the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles at fullback in their Winfield Cup premiership grand final loss against the Sydney Bulldogs. In the post-season Ridge captained the New Zealand national rugby league team that travelled to England for the 1995 Rugby League World Cup campaign, finishing the tournament in third place.
Ridge played for the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles at fullback in the 1996 ARL season's grand final, kicking three goals from three attempts in the victory against the St George Dragons. He had scored 1,093 points in 122 first grade games for Manly between 1990 and 1996 (32 tries, 477 goals, 11 Fg).
Ridge spent the 1997 Auckland Warriors season as captain of the club. In 1998 he wrote an autobiography with Angus Gillies "Take No Prisoners" (Hodder Moa Beckett, 1998). That year he also spent the 1998 NRL season as captain of the Auckland Warriors. For the first half of the 1999 Auckland Warriors season, Ridge was captain of the side. He scored 238 points in 37 first grade games for the New Zealand Warriors between 1997 & his retirement in 1999 (8 tries, 103 goals). At the time of his retirement he was the all-time top scorer in international matches for the New Zealand national side.
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