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Lemmens looking HUGE compared to last year. I like his physical abilities and adding a bigger frame will help him in contests... still needs to work on his decision making, skill and team first thinking.
Teams like the Swans and Adelaide just licked their lips when they saw us on the draw
Let’s hope the new recruiting boss doesn’t share the old recruiting boss’ predilection for skinny young flanker types. We might be a chance of beating these two in about 5 years.Teams like the Swans and Adelaide just licked their lips when they saw us on the draw
Physical pressure*snap*
Let’s hope the new recruiting boss doesn’t share the old recruiting boss’ predilection for skinny young flanker types. We might be a chance of beating these two in about 5 years.
I think they stuffed the article up by putting two blues poles in there, assuming one was for us.Article on afl.com.au about which arrival excites clubs’ supporters the most. 17 clubs are covered (Blues twice so they must be really excited). Guess who they forgot to include?
Fans have their say on the recruit they're most keen to see http://m.afl.com.au/news/2018-01-06/new-blood-which-arrival-excites-you-most
Fascinating stuff. I remember reading a book about the creation of the club and there is a doco on the creation of Fremantle. When the club started they should have documented this kinda stuff in video and collated it together over 10 or 20 years existence of the clubFlashback: How the Gold Coast got its own AFL team after Kangaroos pulled out in 2007
THE Gold Coast Suns are back on the field and training again in the hopes of an improved showing in 2018.
With long-time captain and star player Gary Ablett gone and a new coach in place, the team is preparing for what many expect to be a testing year ahead.
This week’s pre-season training comes 10 years after it was confirmed the AFL would create a new team on the Gold Coast.
Gary Ablett has left the Suns.
The announcement came on the back of the North Melbourne Kangaroos deciding to remain in Victoria by turning down the AFL’s $100 million relocation offer.
AFL chief broadcasting and commercial officer Gillon McLauchlan spoke to AFL supporters at the Northcliffe Surf Life Saving Club and told them a new club would be created in lieu of relocating an existing organisation.
He said the club would be owned by local grassroots fans and would be supported by the Southport Sharks.
Gillon McLachlan.
McLachlan reiterated that the AFL would press ahead with a 17th licence on the Coast by 2011.
“I don’t see today as a negative. I see it as a positive in regards to the future,” he said.
“We will push ahead with plans for a 17th licence on the Gold Coast and hopefully it will be in 2010.
“We are very excited by what the future holds up here and believe a 17th licence will be a success on the Coast.”
AFL bosse, including Andrew Catterall and Gillon McLachlan met with Gold Coast city leaders ahead of the team being announced.
He added the team’s name and strip would be chosen by local fans and the team would be based at either the existing Carrara complex or another site.
The meeting was attended by Kangaroos players, AFL bosses from Melbourne and members of the Coast’s Australian football community.
At the same meeting, McLachlan revealed that an 18th AFL franchise would be created by 2015 for a western Sydney team.
The lack of signed deal to have the old Carrara stadium redeveloped was considered a major hole in the AFL’s bid to relocate the Kangaroos to the Gold Coast.
The Gold Coast Bulletin’s 2010 front page announcement that Ablett would be coming to the Gold Coast.
AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou told the Bulletin he was comfortable with the progress of the development plan for the 14,000 seat stadium.
Work progressed quickly form the December 2007 date with the club’s junior team making its debut in 2009 in the Queensland under-18 competition.
The team, which became known as the Gold Coast Suns, made its debut in the AFL in the 2011 season, initially playing out of The Gabba in Brisbane before making its local debut in May that year at the new Metricon Stadium.
Gary Ablett kicking the first goal at Metricon Stadium in May 2011.
The Suns would go on to take out the wooden spoon in their debut year — winning just three matches — and have struggled with consistent form. The club is yet to play finals football.
Now on its third coach, Stewart Dew, the Suns are hoping for a better 2018.
Fascinating stuff. I remember reading a book about the creation of the club and there is a doco on the creation of Fremantle. When the club started they should have documented this kinda stuff in video and collated it together over 10 or 20 years existence of the club
yeah but behind the scenes stuff, there is only so much you can get from anecdotes.I reckon they'd have plenty of footage.. I know there's a lot on YouTube
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yeah but behind the scenes stuff, there is only so much you can get from anecdotes.
yeah true, some behind the scenes meeting footage would be really cool seeing it 5 years later wouldn't give away club secrets eitherWatching some of the original videos on the clubs YouTube channel makes me think that the club would have a lot of the early days footage and probably ch7 and fox and possibly ch10 would have footage! May be worth contacting the suns media department and see if they could put something together?
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I thought it was 20 drug/alcohol abuses, 1 overpaid marquee player, and 5 years of finals-free footy.
Looks like they are well ahead of their lofty targets.