■■■■ poor effort to whoever put his highlights package together on the EFC website. Should have had a tonne of highlights during his glory years and not stuff from the past few seasons which was the majority of the footage.
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reckon when he came back leat year he got his best form back then lost it . he had some good form earlier this year again before going off the boil again. perhaps he couldn’t get his body right
It’s all been said Dys, thanks and enjoy retirement, and please mate if ya wanna get into coaching get some experience at another club first.
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This is so depressing lol. Not at you, just in the grand scheme of things
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Top bloke, I’d enjoy a beer with him.
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Thanks for 250 games. Thanks for the way you played and I’m only sorry you were at the Club when the Saga played out. All the best in a well-earned retirement.
Great servant of the club, but thank god he’s retiring.
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Will be interesting to see what the future holds for him. He won’t have any trouble finding a job in club land or the media if he wishes.
Great call. I remember that game well. It was a Sunday game at Docklands with the roof closed. Dons were six goals down at half time. We stormed back into the match with some sublime tap work from Ryder to Hepps at the centre bounces. Hepps reading of Ryder’s taps had him streaming out of the centre time and time again to set up numerous scoring opportunities (of ironically enough, we took full advantage of) in the third quarter. This quarter has always stuck in my mind as its the cleanest we’ve ever looked at winning centre clearances since the last quarter of the '84 GF.
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He was a good player pre captaincy and he was always courageous till the end. Unfortunately as per a lot of Essendon players post 2000, they get associated with the clubs continual failures.
Media for sure, he’s got Triple M written all over him. But in club land I doubt he would be highly sought after. It’s not like he’s got team success on his CV. The only club that would employ him either as an assistant coach or as part of the back room staff would be us.
Good decision. Good timing.
Yet another very good Essendon player retires without a finals win and with pitiful levels of non competitive play by the team as a whole in the finals in which we were eliminated.
The last 20 years is like 2 times worse than the 1970s.
Thanks for your contribution Hepp. I enjoyed the wins you were part of.
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Essendon says hold my beer. He’s an Essendon Old Boy - there’ll be a role already lined-up for him.
That’s not an indictment on Dyson… it’s the strongest possible indictment on this shitshow club, where it so often seems the only mandatory requirement on a resume is “an Essendon connection”.
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His playing CV looks pretty good compared to Jacobs, Rath, Stanton, Tapping, Hurley, Cloke, Roberts and Gia. Pretty sure he’ll be fine and your opinion is based on an irrational dislike of the bloke.
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I don’t see him as the self congratulating bogan ego maniac type personally, but to each his own…
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Really? No all-time great, but 256 games/452 goals/premiership medal is a pretty useful return…
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Deserved far more success than he got. Terrific human being.
Rest up, Hep. You’ve earned it.
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There was a game in Adelaide in 2019 late in the season. We needed to win to stay in touch for the finals. Dyson was hurt with a foot injury; played through pain and helped drag us across the line. Bloody tough effort. Real captain’s game.
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Absolutely bang on.
As of the 2014 elimination final, he was the best player we’d drafted in a long, long time. He was a legit gun. It’s a pity things went the way they did.
He had Pendlebury-like ability to find time and space in congestion, and some of the Ryder-to-Heppell clearance work that year was some of the best I’ve ever seen.
He was never the same player after that foot injury.
Another one to add to the list of ‘What could have been.’
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People forget how good he was.
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