Xavier Tanner
| Xavier Tanner | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal information | |||
| Born | 2 May 1956 | ||
| Original team | Wodonga (OMFL) | ||
| Height | 183 cm (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Weight | 78 kg (172 lb) | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1976–1983 | North Melbourne | 100 (68) | |
| 1984–1985 | Melbourne | 11 (5) | |
| Total | 111 (73) | ||
|
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1985. | |||
| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
Xavier Tanner (born 2 May 1956) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne and Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]
A centreman, Tanner was recruited to the VFL from Wodonga in the Ovens & Murray Football League. He played in North Melbourne's 1977 premiership side and their losing grand final the following season. After exactly 100 games with North Melbourne he joined his old coach Ron Barassi at Melbourne in 1984 and spent the last two seasons of his career with them.[2]
Tanner was coach of the Murray Bushrangers Football Club in the Under 18 TAC Cup between 2001 and 2005.
Tanner was an assistant principal at Wanganui Park Secondary College in Shepparton, Victoria until its close in 2020.
Tanner's father, Gerald Tanner, played one game for Richmond in 1941.[3]
References
[edit]- ↑ Fullpointsfooty profile http://www.fullpointsfooty.net/t-u-v.htm#Xavier%20Tanner%20(North%20Melbourne%20&%20Melbourne) Archived 7 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Xavier Tanner's playing statistics from AFL Tables
- ↑ Hillier, K. (2004) Like Father Like Son, Pennon Publishing, Melbourne. ISBN 1-877029-73-4.
- 1956 births
- Living people
- Melbourne Football Club players
- North Melbourne Football Club players
- North Melbourne Football Club premiership players
- Wodonga Football Club players
- Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
- Sportspeople from Wodonga
- VFL/AFL premiership players
- 20th-century Australian sportsmen