Retired #21: Dyson Heppell - Goodnight, sweet prince. What a legend! 🤙 - 24/8

[Lore]

Contract Status: Unrestricted Free Agent 2024
My Boy Draft 2024: Pick 27, Highly Evolved

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Batista FTW.

 

[eDPS]

Welcome back you bloody superstar!

 

[Highly Evolved]

34 touches. 3 goals. 7 tackles. Captain's game. Absolute ripper.

 

[Loonerty]

Definitely lead from the front in that game. Absolute star.

 

[eth-dog]

Oh captain my captain.

 

[Autobahn]

Looked like he told Goddard to actually heck off before the 50m set shot goal. The nerve.

 

[VelvetSledge]

I love him. Real man love

 

[ScrappyCoCo]

Looked a little off during the JLT games, but gee he was terrific tonight.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

I forgot Hepp is Essendon's captain this year.

LIFT REDDY LIFT!

P.s. great mark in 3rd? quarter.

 

[Lance Uppercut]

Oh god <3

 

[Beerfish]

Great player. Great bloke. Just great. Clutch.

 

[BomberFan355]

Was really worried after how rusty he looked in JLT, great game last night!

 

[Eleven 38]

ALL senior players go at half pace during practice games. It's completely normal for them to get themselves ready for round 1 not a month before it

 

[tenderwarrior]

34 touches. 3 goals. 7 tackles. Captain's game. Absolute ripper.

To go along with that, 8 Marks, 3 Frees For and his only blemish was 1 Free Against. To top it off, 28 Effective Disposals! Statistically a much better game than Dusty's...

 

[scanlon]

what. a. man.

 

[Old Campaigner]

ALL senior players go at half pace during practice games. It's completely normal for them to get themselves ready for round 1 not a month before it

You also never know if the coaches have given them some specific task to focus on to the exclusion of all others which would affect their output in the practice games as well. In short, you can tell **** all from a side's JLT form

 

[BrunoV]

The thing about Heppell is that if All Australian selection is a benchmark for the quality of a player, I thought that he was underwhelming as an "All Australian" but that never meant that he did not have scope to improve (particularly evolving a more damaging attacking part to his game).

We probably have not thought of Heppell as someone who will benefit from playing in a better side but there were obvious and significant signs last night that he has an vastly improved player to the one that was selected as an All Australian.

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

Stamped him self last night.

 

[nickcat0]

He's had 5 seasons as the young kid hotshot. He's won all the individual young/rookie player awards, which has highlighted his potential. Now, as he's about to turn 25, and been appointed captain, it's time to take it to the next level and lead this team and club back to Premiership success. On the evidence of yesterday, he's accepting this challenge, and hopefully he'll continue to flourish. Time will tell.

 

[dnbassador]

The last quarter of last night Dys went a whole new level!


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[yaco55]

No surprise with Heppel's game - Only surprise was the depth in his kicking.

 

[pepsi]

No surprise with Heppel's game - Only surprise was the depth in his kicking.

Certainly the penetration and length of his kicking was his downside in his game. If that has improved it really lifts him to another level.

 

[Darealrath]

No surprise with Heppel's game - Only surprise was the depth in his kicking.

When he was lining up I turned to a couple of mates and said he couldn't make the distance.

 

[Doss]

When he was lining up I turned to a couple of mates and said he couldn't make the distance.

As did I. Assumed he'd put it to top of the goal square.

 

[Lance Uppercut]

As did I. Assumed he'd put it to top of the goal square.

*Heppell telling BJ to stfu gif*