by mastermind5991, 24 May 2013
Well, what a round it was last week. The season’s first draw, an improved Melbourne performance, the Bombers and Cats upset, and also the rise of the Gold Coast Suns. This week, I will preview two matches in depth: first, the Collingwood versus Sydney Swans match at the MCG, and the Hawthorn versus Gold Coast [...]
by Ed Jackson, 24 May 2013
Gold Coast teenager Jaeger O’Meara has no problem being touted as the AFL’s next big thing, because that’s exactly where he wants to one day be. The 18-year-old Suns midfielder has been so impressive in his debut campaign that after eight games there’s already comparisons with Chris Judd, Joel Selwood and his club captain Gary [...]
by AAP, 21 May 2013
Gold Coast ruckman Zac Smith is the latest player to have his season cut short as part of a plague of serious knee injuries that has swept the AFL. The Suns announced on Monday that the 23-year-old will need a reconstruction after rupturing the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in his right knee during Saturday’s win [...]
by Jackson Clark, 19 May 2013
Are we witnessing the best first year from a youngster in the AFL ever? Gold Coast’s Jaeger O’Meara has taken the football world by storm this year and is currently the hot favourite to take out the AFL’s Rising Star Award. The midfielder is fresh off another top performance, after gathering 25 disposals and a [...]
by Ed Jackson, 19 May 2013
Gold Coast posted back-to-back AFL wins for the first time as they beat a tired Western Bulldogs by 32 points at Metricon Stadium on Saturday. The Suns, who beat Melbourne by 60 points last weekend, ran away with the match in a seven-goal-to-one third quarter on their way to the 13.15 (93) to 8.13 (61) [...]
by Ed Jackson, 19 May 2013
Sometimes, you can believe the hype. Gold Coast teenager Jaeger O’Meara went into the 2013 AFL season as possibly the most anticipated of the expansion club’s young brigade. Freed from the tagging role that he’d performed admirably in the opening seven matches of his career, the 19-year-old had his most influential display to date in [...]
by The Roar, 18 May 2013
Saturday twilight at Metricon Stadium has the Gold Coast Suns and Western Bulldogs doing battle in an intriguing clash. Live scores begins from the opening bounce at 4.40pm AEST. By the end of this game, there is every chance the Gold Coast could find themselves with a 50 percent record for the first time in [...]
by Michael DiFabrizio, 15 May 2013
There was an odd build-up to Sunday’s Melbourne-Gold Coast clash. It seemed like one of those games where the interest levels rose out of sheer voyeurism. “Imagine the pressure the losing coach will be under” – or words to that effect – were repeated ad nausea. We’ve come to expect comments like these, but they [...]
by Laine Clark, 14 May 2013
Gold Coast CEO Travis Auld says he has not been officially told that star AFL player Nathan Bock is being investigated in a major drugs in sport probe. But Auld confirmed it was only a matter of time before the club held talks with the AFL and the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA). Instead of [...]
by Roger Vaughan, 13 May 2013
The two AFL expansion clubs are proven coach killers and Melbourne’s Mark Neeld could well be the latest victim. The Demons stumbled backwards into more gloom on Sunday blowing several weeks of AFL improvement with a terrible performance against Gold Coast. The Sun’s 10-goal win on Sunday at the MCG is the first time they [...]
As part of the AFL’s expansion, the Gold Coast Suns entered the AFL in 2011 with the competition’s 17th licence. A team of the Suns’ youth players competed in the 2009 TAC Cup and 2010 VFL before the team joined the AFL in 2011. The Suns’ home ground is the newly-built Metricon Stadium on the Gold Coast.
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