Player Watch #5 Isaac Heeney

[Kennedy Parker]

Isaac Heeney

Isaac Heeney

5

Isaac Heeney

Age

27

Ht

185cm

Wt

88kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

18.2

5star

K

10.4

4star

HB

7.7

5star

M

4.9

5star

T

4.1

5star

G

1.0

4star

D

14.3

3star

K

8.8

4star

HB

5.5

3star

M

4.8

4star

T

2.5

3star

G

1.2

5star

D

10.4

3star

K

7.2

3star

HB

3.2

3star

M

2.8

3star

T

2.4

4star

G

1.0

4star

is a crowd favourite and one of the best young players in the competition. The QBE Sydney Swans Academy graduate won the 2018 AFL Mark of the Year award, was selected in the AFL Players’ Association’s 22Under22 team in two of his eligible four years and played his 100th senior game in 2019. Heeney can be used in the midfield, forward line – where he booted four goals in star teammate Lance Franklin’s absence in Round 20 last year – or as a loose man in defence.

Isaac Heeney

5

Isaac Heeney

Age

27

Ht

185cm

Wt

88kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

18.2

5star

K

10.4

4star

HB

7.7

5star

M

4.9

5star

T

4.1

5star

G

1.0

4star

D

14.3

3star

K

8.8

4star

HB

5.5

3star

M

4.8

4star

T

2.5

3star

G

1.2

5star

D

10.4

3star

K

7.2

3star

HB

3.2

3star

M

2.8

3star

T

2.4

4star

G

1.0

4star

DOB: 05 May 1996
DEBUT: 2015
DRAFT: #18, 2014 National Draft
RECRUITED FROM: Cardiff (NSW)

Isaac Heeney | AFL

Follow Isaac Heeney's progress through AFL

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[GotTheGoodes]

lol he's a thinker. this is like two levels of footballer dumb

I think that's hilarious & an undesirable risk to a very valuable asset at the same time.

I guess the last thing you want is for players hurting themselves but likewise I don't think enforcing too strict restrictions or rules is the way to go either. A happy playing group is a successful playing group. I guess if he was doing risky things all the time you might step in and say something. But a one-off stunt, meh, he's a young lad. Let him have some fun I say.

 

[mtooler]

I wouldn't be so sure. Bontempelli's skills are better than Heeney's.

Bont can throw better than Heeney.

 

[J_Moore]

Marcus Bontompelli would never have posted it on instagram.

 

[Banyo Bloods]

lol he's a thinker. this is like two levels of footballer dumb

My first thought was awesome how much fun does that look..........then it was ohh he could easily dislocate a finger using his hand for balance like that..................sad way of modern thinking. Good on him enjoying his young life the way many of us used to.

 

[CD__]

Bomtempelli has had an extra year than Heeney...no reason Isaac can't emulate what the Bont did in '16, this year. They will always be vastly different players though with different strengths and weaknesses, makes it difficult to accurately compare them.

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

Just having some fun got god sake

Least he is not out on the glass pipe

Its actually worse than that people have broken their back doing the same activity.

 

[Punts]

Its actually worse than that people have broken their back doing the same activity.

Come on mate he is a 20 year old having some fun

Footballers are real people , not robots

 

[Tuco]

I wouldn't be so sure. Bontempelli's skills are better than Heeney's.

But can he tandem flip off a water slide into a muddy creek?

 

[The King!]

If the club cared i doubt it would be on instagram

 

[J_Moore]

look I don't really give a s**t, but the difference between someone like Heeney and most 20 year olds is most 20 years olds haven't just signed a 5 year contract worth millions of dollars that effectively commodifies their body.

But it's putting it on Insty that's the real problem. How can he be trusted to distribute the ball out of the middle if this is his decision-making level?

Get Talia to introduce him to some less-risky recreational habits imo.

 

[Swansujelly]

people need to lighten up

 

[Angry Red Bull]

Come on mate he is a 20 year old having some fun

Footballers are real people , not robots

He could stand up to waist level in the water that he did a back flip in. Very dangerous I'm afraid. I have a mid teen boy and no way would he be allowed to go that!!!

 

[Cadsky]

How many of our players surf? How many sharks have been spotted this season? It's just as risky for any of them to get into the water as what Heeney is doing. Lighten up

 

[J_Moore]

How many of our players surf? How many sharks have been spotted this season? It's just as risky for any of them to get into the water as what Heeney is doing. Lighten up

lol nah it's not bro

 

[Punts]

Will sit him at home in Cotten wool

Works for Reid

 

[GotTheGoodes]

Will sit him at home in Cotten wool

Works for Reid

Ooohh noo!! Not Cotten Wool!! I'm pretty sure he has a severe Cotten Wool alergy which weakens the muscle fibres in his hamstrings & quads.......

 

[CD__]

If he had have been seriously injured doing this I'm fairly confident we'd all be pretty pissed off.

 

[sataris]

Playing AFL is more dangerous than what he posted

 

[Superstar swan]

Heeney got his jaw broke in singapore so a bit of slip and slide is a walk in the park

 

[RW]

Good to see the annual tradition of BF posters overreacting to off season happenings is still going strong

 

[scaryness]

Good to see the annual tradition of BF posters overreacting to off season happenings is still going strong

Should start a fundraiser to get Heeney into a bubble during offseasons

 

[sataris]

Heeney got his jaw broke in singapore so a bit of slip and slide is a walk in the park

Hong Kong

 

[BarneyBent]

Bomtempelli has had an extra year than Heeney...no reason Isaac can't emulate what the Bont did in '16, this year. They will always be vastly different players though with different strengths and weaknesses, makes it difficult to accurately compare them.

You're right, Heeney might. Bontempelli HAS though. Proven performance is better than potential. Heeney might prove to be BETTER than Bontempelli, even. Or he might not.

 

[The Swans Blog]

lol he's a thinker. this is like two levels of footballer dumb

Haha that looks like fun! Did that as a kid like a lot of boys would have done

 

[Punts]

Bont well in front ATM

Guy stands up in the centre when it counts

Kicks crucial goals at times also