Along with the Giants, the Cold Coast Suns are the youngest football clubs in the AFL as both teams were established in 2009. Therefore, the team has been active for little more than twelve years, although they competed for the first time in the AFL during the 2011 season.
The characteristic colors of the team are Red, Gold and Blue, and their base is at the Metricon Stadium, which has a capacity of up to 25,000 people.
As the team is based on Queensland, they maintain a rivalry with the Brisbane Lions almost since the club’s foundation.
Although they’ve had a good performance in most leagues, making it to the finals in four occasions and reaching the semi-final in the 2011 season, we still have to see the classifications at the end of the -21 season. As of now, they maintain themselves as one of the top ten teams in the season, having lost only two matches, the first against the West Coast and the second against Adelaide.
Although the discussions about the foundation of the team were ongoing for about two years prior to their admission to the AFL, the creation of the Suns was only made official on 31 March 2009 after they were officially granted the licence to participate in the league.
Guy Mckenna continued with his activities as coach of the team during their first entrance to the AFL until his departure in 2014. The first game they won in the AFL was against Port Adelaide in Round 5, during their debut season. After that match, they kept maintaining a stable performance that slowly started to decline as they kept losing games by a wide margin of points.
The following year, things weren’t different, or maybe worse. The suns lost fourteen matches consecutively in the 2012 AFL season. However, the team recovered itself after winning a match against Richmond in Round 16.
Things were equally disastrous during the following seasons. The team failed to even reach the finals some times, and was awarded with the wooden spoon numerous times. Still, things are not completely lost for the Golden Coast Sun.
Throughout the years, the Suns have struggled to maintain a stable streak throughout the seasons, it wasn’t until Stuart Dew, who played for Port Adelaide and Hawthorn previously, took over the coach position for the team. Since then, the team has shown numerous signs of improving overtime.
Since he began his activities, Dew has recruited younger players as part of a draft strategy.
As mentioned above, the Gold Coast Suns have not had the best start of the season, but it has been an improvement compared to previous seasons since their debut. They’re next paired up against Carlton at the Metricon Stadium. This game will happen on Saturday 10 April.
We are yet to see if the team is capable of maintaining considerable streak s they’ve been doing it since the start of the -21 season. Hopefully, the new strategy used will help them escalate more positions in the rankings.
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