Last year’s Rising Star winner Andrew McGrath has revealed an interesting conversation he and other young Essendon players had with team captain Dyson Heppell.
Speaking candidly, McGrath revealed Heppell apologised to the first to third year players at the club for the older group not providing enough leadership.
“Dyson Heppell has come into our development meetings a few times which is for first to third year players and has basically said that we’re driving the standards at the moment and it should probably be the other way around,” he told SEN’s Crunch Time.
“He apologised on his behalf for not setting a good enough example in his eyes, I guess everyone’s in the same boat, I don’t think Dyson has set a foot wrong this whole season from a leadership point of view.
“We’re all there supporting him, it’s not one individuals fault over another.”
This comes after coach John Worsfold said after the Carlton loss the Essendon playing group lacked an identity.
Read what McGrath had to say about the club’s issues here.
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