Let's have a bit of fun in the off season and look back on our most cherished Metricon moments. As much as it pains me to say it now I was so pumped watching Dicko kick 7 goals against the Kangas. He was juggling marks and keep the crowd on its feet. How about you guys?
Cherished Metricon Memories
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Beating Geelong last year at Metricon was a great feeling and will always stick with me! Awesome game, brilliant atmosphere.
Donble
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Yeah the 2 Collingwood wins stand out so far , the 2nd one was one of our best wins to date. The first Q clash win with Krackour kicking 5 has to be up there as well.
When He Who Can No Longer be named ran through CHF and kicked "THAT" goal against Geelong
I nearly threw my 2yo into the air and out of the Grandstand onto the ground
I nearly threw my 2yo into the air and out of the Grandstand onto the ground
FavoriteSun
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I was only at the stadium once, but I'm probably the furthest traveled Suns fan in the stadium's recent history?
I was here for this game. We still almost beat fremantle. Having a kick on the field at the end, shot at goal on the side opposite the scoreboard. Priceless.
I was here for this game. We still almost beat fremantle. Having a kick on the field at the end, shot at goal on the side opposite the scoreboard. Priceless.
That was awesome. Felt like the whole stadium didn't stop cheering / buzzing for a good 5 minutes afterwards. Pity the campaigner's later actions have diminished all the good things he did.
remember that one time at metricon, where the sun set behind the southern end?
taken from the suns website, currently being used as the background haha.
taken from the suns website, currently being used as the background haha.
remember that one time at metricon, where the sun set behind the southern end?
taken from the suns website, currently being used as the background haha.
Guessing it's a sunrise, not sunset!
either way, pretty much impossible haha.
taken from the suns website, currently being used as the background haha.
Damn, so many mixed signals. 'We are Gold Coast' is an incredibly generic, overused and not very good slogan, while 'We are Your Suns' is an effing great slogan, and gave me this really powerful feeling of pride and nationalism, if only for a brief moment.
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I bloody LOVE 'we are your SUNS'. Simple, but really effective. I love it! And I really love the way they capitalise the word SUNS everywhere.
remember that one time at metricon, where the sun set behind the southern end?
taken from the suns website, currently being used as the background haha.
This is used in American sports and it's often used to stir an emotional connection with the team and create a sense of ownership/pride. In America there is usually only one team per city so they can really play on the fact that they are the city's team but that really isn't the case for most teams in Australia. Luckily, the Suns are one of just three teams in Australia that don't share their city with another AFL team and can use that to their advantage. If you skip forward to 3:15 in this video below you'll see an example of how it's used in American sports:
So the announcer at games will often say things like 'stand up and make some noise for YOUR Miami Heat!' I think it would be awesome if in the opening video package at the first home game in 2016 (or maybe all home games in 2016?) they had a few exciting clips of current Suns players from the last few years with a cool background music track to get the fans going and then you end it with Tom Lynch saying 'WE are Gold Coast' followed by a clip of Gary saying 'WE are YOUR SUNS'. GCFC Digital any chance?
Either way, it's a good slogan and can be used in so many ways.
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Mate just do what my patriots do...come out of the race to Hells Bells and then kill everything on the field not in the red blue and gold.
If you want to go that far back then this would have to be up there as one of the best games ever played at Carrara:
To be honest I hate the fact that Suns is always capitalised to SUNS. I think it looks stupid.
Pretty funny that we drew with West Coast at Carrara 23 years later, after a Queensland team kicked a set shot after the siren. This was also in a year where West Coast got into the grand final, and the Queensland team had just 4 wins and would consider a draw almost as good as a win.
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Must...resist...that the ravens organization.....and flacco...is a joke.........
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