Good on you Dys…….learn heaps and come back to us. Love ya. Don’t make it too long tho, as I don’t want to be …up there…trying to look down on your crazy messed up hair. X
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Wait till we appoint him as head coach without a process in 2 years.
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That’s an absolutely awful idea that would still see us better off.
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That’s such an Essendon move.
Shhh… don’t give them any ideas…
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Don’t even joke about this!!!
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You’re a legend, Bessie.
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Just read the Age article about the saga ten years on… this part about Dys shows what a true asset he was for the club:
Then [Brett] Murphy and Tony Hargreaves, the lawyer, walked in and when they opened the door they were looking at the ground, and we were like, ‘Oh this is not good’. But still, at that point, you’re thinking, ‘What is not good? What does that mean?’
“You are not really even thinking about length of time of suspension or anything like that. I wasn’t thinking, ‘OK, not good equates to six months’. I was probably more like ‘not good’ is being found guilty.
“Then they deliver what ‘not good’ actually equates to. Everyone was trying to comprehend – what does this actually look and feel like? You hear the initial results, and then you’re not really tuned in because you are sort of hit by what those initial results are.
“Later you get a sense of what these details actually equate to but, in the moment, you just get hit by the sledgehammer. I just recall there were a lot of, like, vacant looks on people’s faces, and just a lot of fear. You know when you see fear on people. That’s what I recall most, it was just shock.”
A few players started to cry quietly, others sat staring blankly. The first to move was Dyson Heppell. Only a month earlier, he had been named vice captain of the club under Watson – now he was one of the banned players.
“The thing that stood out to me the most was because 34 blokes were getting this news, you don’t look at them all at once, but Dyson Heppell got up and walked around and started hugging every player,” Marsh remembered.
“There were a lot of grown men crying in the room, and that was the moment I just thought, ‘Geez, that is selfless leadership’. I’ll never forget Dyson doing that. He’s one of the youngest players in the room and I just think he saw his mates in complete devastation.”
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How long has he been Dyson Turner-Heppell?
Since he married
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TURNER-HEPPELL
He took his wife’s name?
they took each other’s names
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I love this. I think he hung around 2-3 seasons too long but this is great leadership at the time (2016).
As for the Dyson Turner-Heppell decision? Umm…
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Can we please update the thread title to TURNER-HEPPELL
Going into the “I’m A Celeb” reality show jungle!?
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Announce Jobe Slaghekke-Watson
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Is this a common thing? Is it a new thing?
So if their children marry someone with a hyphenated name it could potentially be “Turner-Heppell-Smith-Jones” then the next gen does it again and you end up with eight names a few hundred years it would be ridiculous!
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Or maybe he thinks outdated traditions need to be left in the past.
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