Player Watch #38: Tristan Xerri - signed thru '29 - 2024 All Australian squad member - runner up '24 SBM

[SammyRoo]

Oh well …..

Maybe by his 7th season next year he’ll click as to how to take an uncontested mark ?

 

[Samsquanch]

Oh well …..

Maybe by his 7th season next year he’ll click as to how to take an uncontested mark ?

How's he going to manage that when his hands turn into concrete the moment he's named in the AFL side?

 

[Uncle_Leo]

It’s comical how bad he is

 

[Only Forwards]

The best thing he did all day was to set Riewoldt up and then smash him into the ground.

it was funny as f***.

 

[Colby Cheer Squad]

The best thing he did all day was to set Riewoldt up and then smash him into the ground.

it was funny as f***.

Give him an extension based on that alone.

 

[Merlin007]

Opinions differ, but Xerri is tracking in the right direction imo. Marking still lets him down, but he is learning to play within his limitations, looking to give a quick handball to a runner, and he lost nothing in the physical contest with Witts, who is a genuine monster. More hit outs than Goldy from the same game time, and a better hit out win percentage.

turns 25 next season with his best years ahead of him, and if went on the market tomorrow, he'd find a home, which is a reasonable yardstick

 

[Ischenko]

Yeah he was fine yesterday. Witts beat him early - we only got going in the first when Goldy came on - but X worked into the game well. As Merlin says above, if he can play within his limitations and continue to work on his marking he might just do the job.

Again, he was part of attacking chains and looked like a footballer.

 

[ansonholt]

Will do the job when Goldy retires. Worth persisting with.

Needs an entire off-season of marking drills and then we'll have a footballer.

 

[Roosurgence]

Opinions differ, but Xerri is tracking in the right direction imo. Marking still lets him down, but he is learning to play within his limitations, looking to give a quick handball to a runner, and he lost nothing in the physical contest with Witts, who is a genuine monster. More hit outs than Goldy from the same game time, and a better hit out win percentage.

turns 25 next season with his best years ahead of him, and if went on the market tomorrow, he'd find a home, which is a reasonable yardstick

The only hope I have for Xerri is that he turns into a brutal crash and bash ruckman that can halve the contest and let our miss go to work.

His marking is a problem is an understatement. I e seen Auskick kids that have better hands than Xerri.

 

[Errol Street]

Absolute rubbish he had zero yes zero marks. His marking average would be less than 1 since he came back. How can you talk him up after we win 2 kicks 6 handballs zero marks. We need big guys taking grabs.

 

[muttley45]

Witts couldn't ragdoll him at stoppages, even less so late in the game, must concentrate on marking and running all off season, roll up the sleeves and work hard son.

 

[Merlin007]

Yeah he was fine yesterday. Witts beat him early - we only got going in the first when Goldy came on - but X worked into the game well. As Merlin says above, if he can play within his limitations and continue to work on his marking he might just do the job.

Again, he was part of attacking chains and looked like a footballer.

Spot on - at stoppage, as he showed against Witts, he is developing his role as a contest player, and if he can get his share, as he did, he is now showing signs of linking up with a quick handball to the advantage of his mids. If they learn to trust each other - the centre bounce rotation: Xerri, Phillips, Powell, LDU, Jy, TT and others - then it could be a good squad

 

[Uncle_Leo]

Will do the job when Goldy retires. Worth persisting with.

Needs an entire off-season of marking drills and then we'll have a footballer.

 

[Arthur Cloke]

Absolute rubbish he had zero yes zero marks. His marking average would be less than 1 since he came back. How can you talk him up after we win 2 kicks 6 handballs zero marks. We need big guys taking grabs.

This forum can talk up anyone. Adolf Hitler would be given a Nobel Peace Prize on here if he played for Nth Melb.

Like a lot of us, occasionally I'll polish up a turd. But over the last few years, I find the best place to polish a turd is here on BF. The way the North Melb list is analysed on BF, you'd swear you guys were Top 4. Last time I checked, we've finished bottom 2 in each of the last 4 years.

Being a Suns fan, I was outraged by our insipid performance against you guys yesterday. I actually went to the game hoping the Suns would win so I'd be a winner either way. Instead, I had to console the Reid family as their young son is headed to the West. The poor kid was boiling his eyes out.

But I digress. The BIG X is signed for 2 more years. Make of that what you will. I actually like him.

 

[CURVE]

The best thing he did all day was to set Riewoldt up and then smash him into the ground.

it was funny as f***.

Apparently broke Riewoldt's Rib. Love it.

 

[cybercrab]

I honestly think he's decent but he really needs to learn how to mark, can't even mark uncontested

 

[Gumble Frankieton]

Xerri could become a handy physical ruckman, more in the Ishchenko mode rather than a Goldy or McKernan obviously. Needs to improve his tapwork and marking or he'll end up as more of a stop-gap ruck until a better one can be drafted or traded in.

Xerri actually wins a decent amount of hitouts (X 50.7% of contests as against Goldy 44.7%, Tim English 39.5% or Rowan Marshall

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Rowan Marshall

Age

29

Ht

201cm

Wt

105kg

Pos.

Ruck

Career

Season

Last 5

D

15.4

4star

K

8.8

3star

HB

6.6

4star

CL

3.4

5star

HO

20.2

5star

D

12.9

3star

K

9.3

4star

HB

3.6

2star

CL

2.8

4star

HO

17.8

5star

D

10.6

3star

K

5.8

3star

HB

4.8

4star

CL

1.0

3star

HO

7.8

5star

40.7%) but he needs to direct more to advantage (X 23.6% Goldy 33.4% English 33.8% Marshall 27.5%).

He is decent at winning the ball on the ground, winning contested possessions etc and likes to be physical. However, we may need to buy a large amount of meat tenderiser to soften those hands over the off-season.

 

[King Corey]

Hearing bit of talk that Tristan took off halfway through the season to head home to Altona and didn't inform anyone at the club.

 

[ferball]

Xerri could become a handy physical ruckman, more in the Ishchenko mode rather than a Goldy or McKernan obviously. Needs to improve his tapwork and marking or he'll end up as more of a stop-gap ruck until a better one can be drafted or traded in.

Xerri actually wins a decent amount of hitouts (X 50.7% of contests as against Goldy 44.7%, Tim English 39.5% or Rowan Marshall 40.7%) but he needs to direct more to advantage (X 23.6% Goldy 33.4% English 33.8% Marshall 27.5%).

He is decent at winning the ball on the ground, winning contested possessions etc and likes to be physical. However, we may need to buy a large amount of meat tenderiser to soften those hands over the off-season.

X: 23.6% of 50.7% of hitouts = 12.0% (technically 11.965) to advantage (yeah?)

Goldy: 33.4% of 44.7% of hitouts = 14.9% to advantage.

English: 33.8% of 30.5% of hitouts = 13.4% to advantage.

Marshall: 27.5% of 40.7% of hitouts = 11.3% to advantage.

That's of total hitouts. That seems very low to me. Did I **** that up? It is getting late.

 

[Gumble Frankieton]

X: 23.6% of 50.7% of hitouts = 12.0% (technically 11.965) to advantage (yeah?)

Goldy: 33.4% of 44.7% of hitouts = 14.9% to advantage.

English: 33.8% of 30.5% of hitouts = 13.4% to advantage.

Marshall: 27.5% of 40.7% of hitouts = 11.3% to advantage.

That's of total hitouts. That seems very low to me. Did I * that up? It is getting late.

It is late and my brain is a bit fried.

Xerri wins 50.7% of contests he gets to. He averaged 25.4 hit outs this year and 6 of those are to advantage which is the 23.62% figure. So he basically taps to advantage about 11.97% from all his ruck contests as you mentioned

He also seems to be the only bloke in the league called Tristan.
Personally I think he needs to grow back the Wolf-man meets Wolverine beard he’s had previously.

 

[ferball]

It is late and my brain is a bit fried.

Xerri wins 50.7% of contests he gets to. He averaged 25.4 hit outs this year and 6 of those are to advantage which is the 23.62% figure. So he basically taps to advantage about 11.97% from all his ruck contests as you mentioned

He also seems to be the only bloke in the league called Tristan.
Personally I think he needs to grow back the Wolf-man meets Wolverine beard he’s had previously.

So when you pull those numbers apart to see what they really mean is everyone gets approximately the same amount of hit outs to advantage, except Goldy who might get one or two more a game.

So then it really does come back to all the other stuff the rucks do and in his case that means he needs to improve marking, like you said.

But it also shows that just a couple more taps to advantage per game is a big bonus. Which really can come down to working together with the mids for a couple of seasons.

 

[giantroo]

Good lad, X.

 

[Hatchy1992]

Good lad, X.

Onya X!!

 

[Arthur Cloke]

The BIG X (that's what me and my 28 mates call him) can bust open a pack like the proverbial dirty. One of my other mates calls him The Towering Inferno because of the fire he can rain down on the opposition.

 

[Ischenko]

Watching the replay he was good. Underrated game. Gotta persist with X (not like we have a choice) but if he can get his marks sticking he will be absolutely fine. Calling it — he’ll make it.