AFL Player #21: Dyson Heppell aka Farnsy

[Lore]

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

 

[Autobahn]

I was more concerned about Dave Hughes' god awful humor.

 

[daz17]

Footy Show last night was an absolute train wreck.

 

[Blind Turn]

blah blah blah... something about Fonzie and sharks... blah blah blah

 

[Lord Nicholson]

The Footy Show are a bunch of morons anyway. Feel sorry for him.

Don't, it's a good racket $$$$-wise by all reports.

 

[Matthew_Lloyd]

I was more concerned about Dave Hughes' god awful humor.

+1. Cringed extremely bad whenever Hughes opened his mouth.

Also, they wouldn't have destroyed any of Heppell's property without him consenting to it. It was set up, as was his reaction

 

[Lance Uppercut]

What gives The Footy Show the right to destroy his property anyway? If he says don't destroy it, don't bloody destroy it. They are lucky he even let them into the house.

god almighty...

 

[DonsRule]

god almighty...

I'll admit I was sucked in by it until I thought about it 'relly a wood chipper parked out the front of his house at 10pm riiiight.

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

I was more concerned about Dave Hughes' god awful humor.

Needs to give up the stand up routine he's funnier as a panel member.

 

[Beerfish]

Needs to give up the stand up routine he's funnier as a panel member.

But that's just a stand up routine sitting down.

 

[Maddogm]

But that's just a stand up routine sitting down.

A sit down routine?

sounds like a morning routine

 

[Beerfish]

A sit down routine?

sounds like a morning routine

If it was good I guess you could call it a real stand up sit down routine.

 

[Ashton Agar]

god almighty...

I'll admit I was sucked in by it until I thought about it 'relly a wood chipper parked out the front of his house at 10pm riiiight.

Haven't seen the footage so I'm just going on what is being said here.

 

[pepsi]

No need to feel sad for Dyson. TFS is scripted TV and heppell would have been in on it. Add the fact that he gets paid to appear on the show and we should not be feeling sympathetic towards him.

 

[Its Manbearpig]

If it wasn't a set up then and I was Dyson I would never go on the show again.

It certainly didnt look like it to me. If he was Dyson is an A+ actor

 

[Beerfish]

Haven't seen the footage so I'm just going on what is being said here.

That was your mistake.

 

[Howard Moon]

Had a massive 2 hour long argument yesterday , on whether Heppell was 'elite'

As with most footy arguments the original argument was lost in a pile of sematics, before long we were arguing about what elite actually is.

Eventually we decided that Elite was top 5% - say 40 avail players per club is 720 - 5% of is 36 .... i said no doubt he is in the best 36 players in the comp.. then they argued no, its position specific, there are more mids than others so they get a bigger slice, i argued them down to 15.

Is Dyson Heppell in the top 15 midfields in the game?

Immediatly i thought yes...

then they started reeling off names.

Dangefield Sloane Beams Rockliff Gibbs Pendlebury Sidebottom Watson Fyfe Selwood Ablett Treloar Lewis Boak Gray Martin Cotchin Parker Kennedy...

I started getting nervy.. gee theres alot of good midfielders out there. I agrued he won 4 player awards last year, they argued he dosent damage teams enough.

Is Dyson Heppel elite?

If we cared to rank the games mids, where is he? I know comparing players is hard - i guess all you can compare is impact on winning games.

Thoughts?

 

[Doss]

Well, for one, Sidebottom doesn't even belong in that conversation, Howard Moon. Nor does Martin.

 

[eth-dog]

He's better than Gibbs, Sidebottom, Treloar, Lewis, Martin and Parker from that list at the very least.

 

[Coldacre]

he's better than Cotchin too. far more damaging, none of this "one-two" crap.

 

[Charliebrow 16]

I don't know if he's elite, but he's something tremendously special. He'll never be an explosive burst player like Fyfe and Dangerfield who can break away from contests and rip games apart, but I think it's an absolute fallacy to suggest that his disposals don't hurt the opposition - tell that to Hawthorn in the fourth, tell that to West Coast in the second half last year, likewise Geelong. He stands up at the most critical and crucial occasions and is often irrepressible. if he's not elite already, he'll be seen to be at the end of the year.

 

[scottmclaren]

Gibbs Pendlebury Sidebottom Watson Fyfe Selwood Ablett Treloar Lewis Boak Gray Martin Cotchin Parker Kennedy...

Gibbs??? Sidebottom?? Please who are these friends of yours?

Hepp was huge in the 4th quarter yesterday. Tell your campaigner Mike Sheahan wannabe mates to shove their 5% elite list where it fits.

 

[Howard Moon]

mate, if you knew the arguments ive been involved in.. im just glad they are now about football and not clincal injections!

fwiw - i reckon zerrett may well be 'elite' and overtake hepp at some point, but man its going to be a great one two punch for the next decade.

 

[eth-dog]

Zach is the next Sam Mitchell. Heppell is the new Pendlebury. Our midfield will be seriously good in 2017.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Zach is the next Sam Mitchell. Heppell is the new Pendlebury. Our midfield will be seriously good in 2017.

Just to make it a trifecta, what about Langers?

 

[eth-dog]

Just to make it a trifecta, what about Langers?

I haven't seen enough of him, but I'll go ahead and say Fyfe . I'll also Kav is the new Jack Redden (not as good as the others unfortunately )