Suns in the Media - Part I

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Bad decision by Mac but we have all made them. I hope the leadership team gets into him about professionalism as if nothing else it’s a data point that he is not doing everything he can. I back him to learn from it
 
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Mac Andrew club sanction

The Gold Coast SUNS can confirm the club-imposed sanctions that have been placed on second year player Mac Andrew, after he was charged by Queensland Police in the early hours of Saturday, 31 December 2022 with driving under the influence of alcohol.
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Ben Drever said:
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Mac Andrew club sanction

The Gold Coast SUNS can confirm the club-imposed sanctions that have been placed on second year player Mac Andrew, after he was charged by Queensland Police in the early hours of Saturday, 31 December 2022 with driving under the influence of alcohol.
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Sounds fair assuming it was a low level, honest mistake. So Mac won’t be playing seniors until at least probably Round 7-8? (After time needed to get match fit and warrant selection based off playing form).
 

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Stuart Dew couldn’t be happier with Ben King’s return from a knee reconstruction, saying Round 1 was the target for his return. King kicked 47 goals from 22 games in 2021, and while he won’t be pushed, if he can conjure a similar return in 2023, it will help propel the Suns towards that elusive first finals series.

X-FACTOR

Can Noah Anderson take his game to the next level and become one of the premier midfielders of the competition? He provides everything the Suns need as far as an X-factor goes. Let’s hope he signs a new deal soon. His good mate Matt Rowell’s inside grunt isn’t necessarily X-factor stuff, but we suspect he will evolve and start finding some easier ball.

QUESTION MARK

Jack Lukosius is a good player, but is he ever going to be better than that? He recommitted to the Suns in the middle of the year, signing a new deal until the end of 2026. But we’d love to see him assert a little more influence and take more of a leadership role. And where’s his best position to play? That’s another debate.

UNTAPPED TALENT

Powerful mid-forward Bailey Humphrey looms as a 10-to-15-year player and insiders believe he can make an impact almost immediately. Gold Coast is stockpiling one of the most talented young midfield brigades in the game. The difference with Humphrey is that he looks to be just at home in attack as he does in the middle.
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robo_1 said:
I found it interesting Healy wants king to play in defence 🤨

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Well he’s correct, as we do need another tall (like, proper tall) key defender, and have for quite a while. Collins, Ballard and Graham aren’t quite tall enough to play on true tall forwards reliably 1v1.

But he’s also wrong. King ain’t it. Not unless King has some serious yipps for most of the year and is moved back to build some confidence etc. It’s King and Chol for key forwards as auto locks.
 
A lot of the good key forwards might be better key defenders, but since you need to score there is more value to the team from a good key forward.

Play King up front and go find a good key defender who can't be a forward (Collo) or who failed as a forward (May, Jones).
 

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King has been stamped as a fwd since day 1. There has certainly been moments where I think we should have tried him down back but not anymore. As long as he stays healthy he may have a huge year considering when he last played we had a defensive game plan even when entering the fwd 50. It does raise a good discussion though, obviously casboult probably only has the one more year but with Walter coming in next year and nancarrow the following you wonder how everyone fits. Walter and nancarrow will probably develop in the 2's for a bit but King, luko, chol, Jeffery have plenty of years left in them. It's good to have some solid depth for once though.
 
Yeeted Suns said:
He's the Jim Cramer of AFL for sure.

To be fair he has been pretty kind to the Suns of late though.
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Every time he commentates on the Sun's he is constantly negative. I don't generally go in for media biases but he really has something against the Suns.
 
Supersuns said:
As much as I cannot stand him commenting, Dermie is one of the only Vic centric commentators/journos that like the Suns.
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Dermie has surprised me in his post playing media career.
He's one of the few that has avoided the pitfalls of ultra negativity and the default position of "players/the game were better /harder in my day" etc etc
 
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