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

[FootySmartSimpson]

Absolute monster performance by X.
Those kind of head to heads play a big part in AA selection - but I wonder how many AA selectors were watching.

Gerard “miserable bastard” Healy for one.

 

[koshari]

"Could big Maxy get his 8th AA blazer this year?"

X:

Maybe at dimmies

 

[muttley45]

I said in the preview thread, cut off the head of the snake, mission accomplished big fella

 

[Chadwiko]

 

[Black Diamond]

"Christian Cherry" according to NDS.

 

[Shagga is all Class]

Did not see it when Clarko did not play Goldstein round 1 one year.

7 goals from centre clearance, 12 clearances from X himself, 12 hit outs to advantage, 1 contested mark and goal in the 3rd.

Who was he playing on?

 

[Yianni]

This dude has completely 180'd me from him first year when he couldn't clunk a mark to save his life.

Absolute MONSTER.

 

[scottywiper]

He's become a force of nature. None of us saw this coming

 

[tazaa]

The stats don't tell the story and that's why watching games always takes precedence.
That was a demolition job on Max.
Just bullied him. If X hadn't announced himself as the premier ruck yet, he has now.

Gawn made it his goal to take the number 1 ruck mantle from Goldi in 2016-2018 and he did.
7 All Australians and won the flag in 2021.

But following todays game there is most definitely a new sheriff in town.

What X did to Gawn today, particularly at the start of the 4th quarter was unforgettable.

 

[the big lebowski]

Remember when people thought he was no good?

 

[Shinboner '07]

Thank **** we didn’t trade him to st kilda. Probably our most important player

 

[Lomas]

Remember when people thought he was no good?

No (checks posting history), not at all….

 

[itchyscratch]

What a beast! Game changer for us, took charge, didn’t stop, and love his intensity through the whole game.

 

[Junk yard]

Remember when people thought he was no good?

He was doing this in the VFL. Some people refuse to watch.

 

[Groucho]

Thank **** we didn’t trade him to st kilda. Probably our most important player

Oh yes, thought he was gone, in fact if the Saints had stumped up a second rounder he would’ve been. Lucky.

 

[DocSholl]

He was doing this in the VFL. Some people refuse to watch.

There are a thousand players in history who dominated state footy and couldn't replicate it at the next level. A lot of them ruckman.

The fact that we would have taken a 2nd rounder for him suggests even the club didn't foresee this level of dominance.

 

[Supa_Nova]

There are a thousand players in history who dominated state footy and couldn't replicate it at the next level. A lot of them ruckman.

The fact that we would have taken a 2nd rounder for him suggests even the club didn't foresee this level of dominance.

Was a second rounder and a first wasn't it?

 

[Supa_Nova]

There are a thousand players in history who dominated state footy and couldn't replicate it at the next level. A lot of them ruckman.

The fact that we would have taken a 2nd rounder for him suggests even the club didn't foresee this level of dominance.

O wow I stand corrected. A future second... and they didn't cough up. Ludicrous.

 

[shinboner spiggs]

What a bonafide star he has become. Just a footballers footballer that you’d love to play with.

 

[Sphynx]

The stats don't tell the story and that's why watching games always takes precedence.
That was a demolition job on Max.
Just bullied him. If X hadn't announced himself as the premier ruck yet, he has now.

Gawn made it his goal to take the number 1 ruck mantle from Goldi in 2016-2018 and he did.
7 All Australians and won the flag in 2021.

But following todays game there is most definitely a new sheriff in town.

What X did to Gawn today, particularly at the start of the 4th quarter was unforgettable.

A cage match for the ages.

That brutal contested mark in the goal square was the equivalent to the knock out off the top rope and ripped the Heavyweight Belt straight of Gawn's waist. You could see the look on Gawn's face as well. Nobody does that to him.

It's Xerri's belt from here on out.

 

[giantroo]

 

[Sphynx]

What do you mean "will" ffs. These journo's...

Gawn had his best season statistically in about 6 years last year and edged X by a bee's dick in some stats.

He would have been the AA ruck in pretty much most years for the previous decade with those numbers.

He's gone up another level, again. As he's now using his clearance dominance to release team mates.

It's not "will" it's undeniably "is"

 

[Ashley B]

We seem to find a good dominant ruckmen in most of our eras

 

[nelroo]

Gerard “miserable bastard” Healy for one.

Stupid old coot still thinks Carlton will run over us in the 1999 granny. Says some ****ing stupid things as a commentator

 

[Ashley B]

Like the umpires ,even Gerard had to give up yesterday and acknowledge our superiority.Said it many times we have to be extra good to beat the “outside”influences. Like pushing the opposing sides to the boundary if they kick the goal well they are just too good. We need to aim to the 90s philosophy just hammer the other team into the ground so nothing can get them even remotely close.