AFL legend and former Gold Coast board member Malcolm Blight has launched a passionate defence of the membership because it comes below heavy fireplace over its sacking of coach Stuart Dew.
Dew was given his marching orders on Tuesday with the Suns — who’ve by no means performed finals of their 12-season historical past — sitting thirteenth on the ladder on seven wins and 9 losses.
AFL 360 co-host Mark Robinson stated it was “no way to treat a person”, whereas the long term of poor outcomes has raised questions over the success of enlargement into the Gold Coast altogether.
Speaking on SEN’s Sportsday SA, Blight wasn’t having any of it, pointing to the lengthy dry spells a number of different golf equipment had earlier than being profitable.
“This is how tough it is. Everyone out there saying the Gold Coast Suns are no good and they’re rubbish and shouldn’t be in the competition – that’s crap,” Blight stated.
He stated that the introduction of the Suns together with GWS supplied an enormous injection of TV cash into the game, which he says is proof that the membership isn’t “a cost”.
“So when people talk about them being a cost – Port Adelaide was a cost 10 years ago, Collingwood were a cost 30 years ago, everyone is going to take their turn,” he stated.
“They’ve been in the competition 12 (completed) years. The great Geelong didn’t win (a premiership) until last year for 11 years. Melbourne, 57 years it took to win another one. Richmond, 37 years. West Coast Eagles even took 24 years to win their next one. Western Bulldogs, 62 years.
“Fremantle haven’t won one yet, 28 years. Sydney, 72 years they took to win another flag. Collingwood, the great Collingwood, the most talked about club in the world, 32 years they took to win a flag from 1958 to 1990. And St Kilda, dare I say it, are now running at 57 years.
“So 12 years is not a long time in this game.”
Blight additionally voiced his anger over those that examine the Suns to GWS for the truth that each are AFL enlargement golf equipment.
GWS has loved much more success within the AFL, having performed finals in 5 seasons together with a Grand Final look.
Blight stated it’s not a good comparability.
“They (the Giants) got a decent area. The Gold Coast Suns got ATCO huts with the best player in the competition (Gary Ablett Jnr),” Blight added. “They also got an extra year in the draft. I wish people would understand this. They also got $2 million more.
“I’m really dirty, absolutely dirty, when people say ‘Let’s compare GWS and Gold Coast Suns’. They should not be compared. GWS got much more.
“They (the Suns) were training in toilets, they were training in rubbish.”
Originally revealed as ‘That’s crap’: AFL nice explodes over Suns ‘myth’ that left him ‘absolutely dirty’
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