Posts Tagged "Guy McKenna"

The expansion teams are back on the agenda after GWS and Gold Coast received two massive thumpings on Easter Sunday, but we should all just relax.

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Gold Coast coach Guy McKenna says his developing AFL club face another steep learning curve this season, as they become more tactically advanced.

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Gold Coast coach Guy McKenna wants his young Suns to start acting like men. Still smarting from the 69-point season-opening loss to Adelaide, McKenna sounded like a frustrated dad on Wednesday as he wondered aloud when his band of youngsters would come of age.

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They say a watched pot never boils. In that case, the Gold Coast Suns will be hoping they fly straight under the radar in their sophomore year in the AFL.

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Well, that was relatively painless. Greater Western Sydney’s debut is done and dusted, and it was nowhere near the bloodbath the football world was expecting.

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Greater Western Sydney will win more games this season then Gold Coast did last season. A big call, you might think. Crazy almost. Why am I making such an outrageous prediction?

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We can expect to see a few things from the Suns in 2012. More development. More competitiveness. Much excitement. But finals? No. Bottom four? Yes.

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They might still yet claim the AFL wooden spoon but Gold Coast coach Guy McKenna believed the Suns’ highly-paid recruits had more than earned their keep in 2011.

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Little might appear to be on the line for cellar dwellers the Gold Coast in the final fortnight of their AFL debut season.

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Some home truths from captain Gary Ablett have steeled the Gold Coast Suns ahead of a game they hope will mark their first AFL win at home.

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Brisbane exacted revenge over local rival Gold Coast with a 10-goal win in a lifeless and at times farcical derby at the Gabba on Saturday night.

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According to his coach Guy McKenna, code hopper Karmichael Hunt has “hit the wall” in his transition to AFL. But the Gold Coast mentor is adamant Hunt is not tempted to return to rugby league.

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Gold Coast coach Guy McKenna believes his Suns’ best hope of upsetting the Western Bulldogs on Saturday lies with what was once the ‘Dogs’ big weapon – speed.

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We all love the Gold Coast Suns at the moment. We love their story and we love their players. We love how they’re the underdog when they go into every game. We always want them to win, barring when they play our own team, of course.

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Gold Coast coach Guy McKenna says there will be no excuses for his fledgling team to fall flat in Saturday’s clash with West Coast at Patersons Stadium.

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When one player is commanding a $1.5m salary to play AFL football, not even a Gold Coast bye round will keep him out of the media.

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If Brisbane Lions coach Michael Voss was unhappy ahead of Queensland’s historic AFL derby clash, he would have been ropeable by fulltime at the Gabba on Saturday night.

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The Gold Coast Suns and the Brisbane Lions may be limping along at the bottom of the AFL ladder, but tonight’s Q-Clash is building up to be one hell of a battle. Even if it is a David versus David match-up.

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Gold Coast coach Guy McKenna has more important things on his plate than trying to help the AFL promote this week’s big clash with Brisbane.

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He’s won premierships, a Brownlow medal, All-Australian jumpers and just about every AFL gong on offer. But Gary Ablett had trouble summing up the joy of captaining Gold Coast to their historic first AFL victory.

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