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Epic low life Robbo giving soulless campaigner Caddy a lovely BJ on TV right now as opposed to his rude cowardly interview towards easy target and loyal hero TLynch earlier in the week.

To me that sums up the Melbourne AFL media perfectly
 

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How do we even replace that many players? We won't attract loads via trade. Sounds like a massive rebuild.

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We'll get the 14 new players to go with the 8 or so last year.
Then sack the coach 2 years later ehen the wins dont stack up :/
 

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Eade now blaming the players, QLD media, the Pacific Ocean, Dreamworld and even the Bikies for his inability to create a competitive team.


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How any of us that live up here function in our regular jobs is truly miraculous when you factor these things in.
 

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Eade you are a Flog. Players don't have a hard edge give me a break please. GWS don't seem to have hard edge problems. Eade is full of BS excuses. Poor leadership from the board, pathetic recruiting by fraud Clayton, Marcus Ashcroft having absolutely no clue, assistant coaches rubbish, a lack of development of players and the appointment of Eade are the main reasons why the Suns are failing as a Club. Sick of excuses


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BARRETT: Suns hypocritical in contract stoushes - http://m.afl.com.au/news/2017-09-17/barrett-suns-hypocritical-in-contract-stoushes

So infuriating this article. Poorly balanced and full of Melbourne media armchair opinions. I wonder if this is the equivalent of discrimination.

He is almost just egging on a war between kochie and the Coch.
The Coch will criticize others to defend the club but the one thing he'll never do is criticise the players the way Kochie did. Just because he defends the club doesn't make him some hard to deal maniac. Rocket never complained about him. Whatever happens, it's going to make the china game a lot more interesting next year. Also shit article Barrett..
 
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Article from the Sunday Mail

FOOTY is flying on the Gold Coast.

The final three teams in this year’s QAFL premiership race were from the Coast. The Cup will reside on the strip for the third straight year.

I don’t subscribe to the opinion the Suns’ off-field troubles are because they are based on the Gold Coast.

SCARY PROSPECT: CATS WOULD BE DEVASTATING WITH GAZ

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Maybe it is because they are on the Coast but not part of it.

The desperation to lure a Chinese tourist to a game or convert a rugby league fan has come at the expense of building connections with the people that already love footy.

Palm Beach-Currumbin are into their second grand final and are starting to become a production line for AFL footballers.

In the past couple of years PBC juniors Jesse Joyce, Brad Scheer and Max Spencer have been drafted to the Suns.

Broadbeach have some gun kids and are pulling great crowds.

This week a Labrador footy club business breakfast at swank Surfers Paradise hotel QT was sold out.


Steven May and the Suns finish a terrible season with a loss to Port Adelaide. Picture: Getty ImagesSource:Getty Images

The building blocks for a successful AFL side, which is always the grassroots, are there.

The Suns could do a lot worse than invite a director from one of these clubs on to their board.

At the very least they should form some sort of committee to build relationships.

Alan Mackenzie represents NEAFL club Southport on the Suns board but the money the Sharks once pumped into local footy now goes to the Suns – they are a brilliantly run organisation but they’re not grassroots.

It is terribly sad that Suns football manager Marcus Ashcroft gets abused when he watches his kids play.

He is an icon who should be revered but as the one senior Suns football administrator with Gold Coast links, he is the target for resentment at the way the AFL club treats local footy.

Anger still exists at the stunt a couple of years ago when the Suns sent a jumper to a club function to be drawn as a business card raffle and then used the cards to attempt to poach sponsors.


Labrador’s Charlton Offermans has turned his back on footy. Picture: Jerad WilliamsSource:News Corp Australia

In theory, the academy system and the NEAFL side provides brilliant opportunities for elite juniors.

In practice, in its infancy, it created bad blood.

Only recently under Andrew Raines and Jason Torney has the communication improved and bridges been rebuilt.

But there is more to be done.

Labrador premiership player Charlton Offermans recently turned his back on footy to take up a US basketball scholarship because of his frustrations at being shunted between the Tigers and the Suns’ NEAFL side without ever knowing where he stood.

The Suns can’t be expected to make draft promises to every kid in their academy but there must be a better way.

Originally published as Why the Suns are burning themselves

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Article from the Sunday Mail




It is terribly sad that Suns football manager Marcus Ashcroft gets abused when he watches his kids play.

He is an icon who should be revered but as the one senior Suns football administrator with Gold Coast links, he is the target for resentment at the way the AFL club treats local footy.



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Gee this part made me angry , Ashcroft resentment at junior level has nothing to do with links to the Suns or how the Suns treat local footy , as if anyone at junior level would give a shit , it is him as a person and a junior coach at Broady that put so many people offside and put there junior program back , these journo's need to do some homework .
 
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