AFL Player #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

 

[naraku]

The last great thing you can do for us Dyson, is spending the rest of this season teaching VFL kids.

Thanks, but it's over.

 

[Jobe Watson]

Should never play again.

But we all know he'll be out there next week.

 

[BomberManU]

Surely he knows?? And if he doesn't, needs a tap on the shoulder.

 

[andleanback]

Can we stop ****ing playing him Deadset. He does not help us at all, it’s no coincidence that last week was the best the backline has looked in ages without him out there. Scott is holding back the side by continuing to favour him

 

[pepsi]

I'm sure some posters will come here and say Heppell has played well this season for the most part.

I just don't see how we are winning important, finals intensity like games with him in the team.

 

[Mercurial89]

I'd say to keep playing him because he directly hurts our chances of winning to try and get a better draft pick but we would probably just **** it up anyway.

 

[MightyDon]

Time to head back to the farm knackers

 

[Beerfish]

Look I get it but he has played well this season for the most part

 

[eth-dog]

He's played well for most of the season but the gap between his best and worst nowadays is too large.

 

[katana]

he has played alright this year when he doesn't have to defend.

 

[MightyDon]

He started the season well but with a fit list there’s not a spot for him, trying to fit him is a handbrake on the side

 

[andleanback]

Look I get it but he has played well this season for the most part

He hasn’t played well in a while, his first 5-6 weeks were good. Since then he’s been average at best

 

[Howard Moon]

Laverde would have been useful tonight, instead we had shags trying to play tall

 

[nipst@r]

I don't mind him playing if others are out. Kelly and redman for example but we are gifting him games at this point.

We need to move past the guilt of drugs saga. Doing nothing until we do.

Tries but just not agile enough.

 

[Snake Charmer]

Been this way for 3 or 4 seasons now. Could probably go around again next year and be no worse, but he’d still be no good.

 

[ghostdog]

I'm sure some posters will come here and say Heppell has played well this season for the most part.

I just don't see how we are winning important, finals intensity like games with him in the team.

He has, and we won't.
I think that's a reasonable response.

 

[Blind Turn]

I don't mind him playing if others are out. Kelly and redman for example but we are gifting him games at this point.

We need to move past the guilt of drugs saga. Doing nothing until we do.

Tries but just not agile enough.

Horse for courses, right? I think he’s vulnerable at the G and a much better player in the sterile environs of the Docklands stadium. I feel like he gets exposed a bit more at the G.

Granted, finals are at the G so maybe the answer lies there. Time to look beyond the Hep.

 

[mad_monkey_j]

I’m not sure what we get from playing him. As decent as he was for the first half of the season there’s nothing he’s doing that someone else couldn’t do. Leadership? Can’t say he does anything particular inspiring. It’s a nothing selection each week that could be better spent developing someone.

 

[Snake Charmer]

I’m not sure what we get from playing him. As decent as he was for the first half of the season there’s nothing he’s doing that someone else couldn’t do. Leadership? Can’t say he does anything particular inspiring. It’s a nothing selection each week that could be better spent developing someone.

We are year 2 into an 8 year plan but we are afraid to throw a kid like Robert’s into the ones. Look at Humpries for Geelong. We need to see a few of them over Hep surely

 

[yodellinhank]

The last great thing you can do for us Dyson, is spending the rest of this season teaching VFL kids.

Thanks, but it's over.

You'd have him poisoning the minds of the next generation of players?

 

[mmmifff]

If he was self aware he would retire and free the spot up now.

 

[YEMOC NAYR]

If he was self aware he would retire and free the spot up now.

Unfortunately for us he wants to go on again and the club will no doubt give him a year.

 

[DERO]

Look I get it but he has played well this season for the most part

He has played well overall this year but tonight was hard to watch. He was poor.

 

[EFC1993]

If he was self aware he would retire and free the spot up now.

This is the problem. He is not self aware at all. You saw how shocked he was last year when he was subbed off against Hawthorn after his horrific performance almost cost us that game. He is currently an anchor weighing down the team with his comical lack of pace. It feels like we are playing a player down with him limping around on the field. He must be Omitted from the squad. If he sooks it is what it is.

 

[Kong]

we owe him another 50 games.

time to get him into the ruck.