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

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the_cleaner said:
he will, BMG always struggles against lesser ruckmen that brutes strength wise and awkward ruckmen like xerri. not saying xerri is a bad ruckmen, but there’s only certain types of rucks in the comp that max does well against.
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Yeah, there's a reason BMG defined himself against Goldy for ages.
 
I always backed the big X as I thought he’d become a solid citizen and couldn’t understand those who rode him off.
He looks like he could become more than solid however which is a bonus.

I’ve won some and lost some lol

I rode off LDU thinking he didn’t have it in him to become what we needed. Fair to say I butchered that call lol
 

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When Xerri goes off for a rest and Gawn goes forward will be our biggest concern.
 
 
giantroo said:
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Maybe / hope I’m not reading too much ,
I think he got a bit tongue tied & nearly tripped up when asked about the LDU injury. Working so closely within the midfield group he would know first hand if someone is in doubt , not playing or the possible replacement midfielder would be in discussions by now .
Nevertheless, he was great in all his replies & did a fantastic job keeping the conversation positive & giving us north members hope again this weekend. 😊👍
 
Play Gawn the same way Grundy did, seemed to work pretty well
 
I reckon he took the chocolates against Gawn. 10 tackles, 9 clearances. Absolute animal.

Even Gawn said after the game that X is the strongest player he has played against this year.

The rate at which he has improved this year has been unreal. Probably going to go close to being a best and fairest this year.
 

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Why Tristan Xerri is North Melbourne’s Shane Mumford clone​

When Shane Mumford retired, JON RALPH thought we’d never see a ruckman like him again. But something is happening at North Melbourne this year that suggests otherwise.

Jon Ralph
Sports Reporter
@RalphyHeraldSun

2 min read
June 24, 2024 - 7:32AM
News Sport Network



When Shane Mumford retired at the end of 2021, we believed the football world would never see his like again.

Football has a way of surprising and delighting.

North Melbourne’s Tristan Xerri is football’s most underrated player and its most physical beast.

Don’t look now, but the Roos have found a 25-year-old Shane Mumford clone who is learning by the week that physicality is not his only trick.

As North Melbourne narrowly failed for the second week to put a finals contender on ice, there was so much to like.

Jackson Archer’s shut-out of Bayley Fritsch, the Luke Davies-Uniacke-George Wardlaw-Harry Sheezel midfield trio, and Charlie Comben’s continual emergence.

The Roos will quickly become everyone’s favourite underdog if they keep punching above their weight in such highly entertaining fashion.

But among all those gains the emergence of a 25-year-old bash-and-crash ruckman who sets the tone from the first bounce cannot be underestimated.

Especially one taken with pick 72 in the 2017 national draft, a year after Nick Larkey was taken at pick 73 in the 2016 national draft.

As usual Max Gawn was herculean on Saturday night but Xerri might have taken the points.

He had 10 tackles (he averages a remarkable 7.6 per game), nine clearances (he averages 6.5 a game), 17 touches (he averages 16 a game).

Gawn raved about his physicality after their contest – he is old school like Xerri.

And like Mumford, he tackles to hurt.

He impacts the game not with the kind of cheap shots off the ball that are becoming part of Zak Butters’ game, but with genuine angry big man tackles.

Butters’ attack on the footy will never be questioned, but again the weekend he whacked an opponent with a hit to the back then wondered why Jarrod Berry was upset.

Xerri brilliant running 60m chase to run down West Coast’s Liam Ryan would be on repeat in North Melbourne team meetings.

“That just showed our never-give-in attitude today, which was really important for us,” Clarkson said of that chase after the Roos’ first win of the year.

His four-effort, two-tackle cameo within 15 seconds against Fremantle in March would also be on heavy rotation as he simply refused to give up until the Roos had cleared the ball.

For so long North Melbourne has been so easy to play against.

They are finally playing proper footy, bashing up the Demons in close with more clearances and centre clearances and 71 more total possessions.

If we have wondered if Clarkson has lost the magic at times, the positional moves have helped as well.

Charlie Comben into defence, Sheezel into the midfield (and not before time), Will Phillips into a tagging role.

With Griffin Logue set to return from a knee reconstruction after VFL action on Sunday and Zane Duursma and Colby McKercher playing VFL alongside him, the Roos have even more room for improvement.

Footy’s easybeat is turning into a club that will shape the finals given how dangerous it has become to play against.

And their perseverance with Xerri, now contracted to 2029 after early-career interest from St Kilda, is paying off in spades.

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tazaa said:
Next step is to compete for harder and longer with the best of them.
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Did pretty well against Gawn on Saturday night. He's the benchmark for the best at the moment.
 
blackshadow said:
Did pretty well against Gawn on Saturday night. He's the benchmark for the best at the moment.
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He's put together an immense 7 week stretch of footy.

Mans honed in and identified areas of his game that needed fine tuning.
In that 7 week stretch he is now giving first use, identifying that when we have momentum, this is the right time to grab the footy following a 2nd stoppage which means more space ahead of the ball and he is taking marks around the ground and behind the ball and of course going forward and kicking goals.
The tackles are a bonus, but he deserves so much credit for working so hard on his game, to the point now it’s all humming and coming together so nicely.
I think the belief is there now. Not just him, but from LDU and George and the rest.

It’s great to see after such a frustrating early season start.
 

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

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