Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\nThe 33-year old, who remains contracted at the Borough for 2026 after signing a two-year deal with the team, also played Leongatha in the Gippsland League.<\/p>\n
He presented Essendon\u2019s trio of first-round draftees \u2014 Sullivan Robey, Jacob Farrow and Dyson Sharp \u2014 their jumpers at the national draft earlier this month.<\/p>\n
Dyson Heppell presents Essendon draftee Sullivan Robey his jumper at the draft (Photo by James Wiltshire\/AFL Photos via Getty Images)Source: Getty ImagesEssendon champion Dyson Heppell has crossed to Collingwood in a development role in Craig McRae\u2019s team. (Photo by Dylan Burns\/AFL Photos via Getty Images)Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n
The Magpies also welcome former Demons assistant Greg Stafford as ruck coach to continue a raft of changes to Collingwood\u2019s football department.<\/p>\n
Former Magpies Tyson Goldsack (defensive coach) and Matthew Lokan (VFL coach) are back at the club, while Scott Selwood stepped away from football and Andy Otten also departed.<\/p>\n
Josh Fraser left his role as head of development for Carlton and Neville Jetta also shifted from the development team to become the Pies\u2019 academy first nations and multicultural lead.<\/p>\n
Collingwood was excited by its off-field additions as the club looks to hold off father time in 2026 with one of the most experienced lists in the competition.<\/p>\n
\u201cDyson is a fantastic addition to our coaching team and football department. His experiences as a player, including his knowledge around leadership, will be a valuable asset to our playing group,\u201d Pies head of football Charlie Gardiner said. <\/p>\n
\u201cWorking predominantly with our upcoming talent, Dyson\u2019s ability to form strong relationships and understand the needs of players will allow him to be influential and mentor our emerging talent. <\/p>\n
\u201cGreg has over 20 years of football experience and has a track record of developing talented players. He will play a pivotal role in developing our current and future rucks. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe are excited to welcome such a high-calibre people to Collingwood and we look forward to seeing the impact Dyson and Greg can have throughout our club.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Essendon champion Dyson Heppell is headed to Collingwood in a development role in Craig McRae\u2019s team. The Bombers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[9126,638,127889,187710,64,63,689,55,639,684,84663,41557,54481,187709,90577,10143,71071,128765,179004,122945,11231,183053,15915,187707,2105,187708,187706,3417,168801,187705,647,187711,677,121842,127888,85,7200,20439,76636,660,19054],"class_list":["post-336995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-adelaide-crows","tag-afl","tag-andy-otten","tag-arch-rival","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-ben-cotton","tag-charlie-gardiner","tag-club-looks","tag-coaching-career","tag-coaching-career-back","tag-coaching-team","tag-craig-mcrae","tag-development-coach","tag-development-role","tag-development-team","tag-dyson-heppell","tag-essendon-bombers","tag-father-time","tag-football-department","tag-football-experience","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-gippsland-league","tag-greg-stafford","tag-jacob-farrow","tag-josh-fraser","tag-matthew-lokan","tag-melbourne","tag-neville-jetta","tag-oceania","tag-off-season-news","tag-scott-selwood","tag-sports","tag-sydney-swans","tag-talented-players","tag-valuable-asset","tag-victoria","tag-young-talent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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