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Today (Thursday) marks three years to the day since the 46-year-old first stepped behind the bench for Leeds Knights.

It ended in a 4-3 defeat at home to one of his his former teams, Basingstoke Bison. Since then, however, things have gone rather well.

The last six years of coaching had been away from the grind of a regular British hockey season as he took on the role of head coach at the Swindon-based Okanagan Hockey academy.

 

 

 

But even though he had thrown himself into his new job in pest control in the ‘real’ world in and around his home town of Swindon, there was something missing.

 

Then, in mid-January 2021, the call came from Knights’ owner Steve Nell – his former boss at Swindon Wildcats – and the rest, as they say, is history.

Then, that summer, Nell asked him to make the move permanent. It wasn’t an easy decision but, after talks with his family, he agreed to stay in West Yorkshire.

 

Two league championships and a play-off title later, it would be easy to see why Aldridge made the decision to stay in Leeds. But as he is quick to point out, the success he has helped bring to the organisation has been anything but simple.

 

“It was only supposed to be for a month!” recalls Aldridge. “The first month I came up, I was taking two days a week holiday from work, to cover everything up here and then Steve asked me to stay until the end of the season, so I had to go back to my then boss and ask him.

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