Isaac Heeney and Toby Greene are, to a large degree, representative of their clubs: one is prim and proper, possibly too much so, the other a serial troublemaker who should probably rein it in from time to time.
It’s been dubbed the worst AFL fixture of the modern era. And to the long list of complaints already made about the structure of season 2024 – the Opening Round malarkey and its impact on byes, the sudden abandonment of Thursday night footy, the absurdity of some teams facing each other twice before facing others once – we can add one more.Imagine if the Swans and Giants were playing this weekend? You couldn’t miss it.
for striking an opponent in the face while trying to take a mark, and his appeal to overturn the ban was dismissed. As a result, Heeney was ruled out of contention for the Brownlow Medal, having previously been one of the hot favourites to win it.after the appeal saying he was “pretty shattered” and giving thanks to everyone who supported him. It was widely ridiculed as overly earnest and completely unnecessary; Kane Cornes described it as “nonsense” and said it was a massive overreaction.
Heeney was an obvious target, even if taking aim at him felt a bit like needlessly inserting themselves into someone else’s affairs. On Wednesday, Heeney and Greene buried the hatchet. Publicly, at least. They are also business partners, as it turns out, who run footy clinics for kids under the ‘5th Quarter Camps’ brand, and as they held one at Tramway Oval, across the road from the SCG, they posed for photos of Heeney jokingly holding his fist as if he’s about to punch Greene in retaliation.Waylon Smithers holding a gun to Tom Jones’ back, forcing him to wave and smile at Marge.
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