suns out of interest

Gold Coast Suns is confirmed. Guernsey hasn't changed.

Yeah, big announcement

Theme song had a good traditional tune to it, but the words were pretty heinous.

horrible song, but still greater than fremantle's

"we are the suns of the gold coast sky, in the red yellow blue, we are the suns of the gold coast sky, the team for me and you" ... and then something about never say die. or words to that effect

Good on you Jack7. Btw, I wouldn't mind waking up in boxers and a singlet in 23 C after this morning in Melbourne ! (*teeth chattering*)

But hey, I wake up each morning in the Sporting Capital of the world. So I can't complain.

WIth regard to those 8,000 GC members. May I be so bold as to ask if you know the avg. membership cost of those 8,000. ie. Is it $160-$170 full memberships, or is it just a sign-on-membership at minimum cost ? I'm interested to know.

Yeah,it's $45 this year.

Yeah,the Suns it is.

Pretty average but is it any worse than the Dockers or Power?

I was hoping for the Sharks,i know Cronulla and Southport already have it but it was the best fit for me and there's a lot of Sharks up here of the human variety.

Not a bad name the Gold Coast Suns! Shithouse song and jumpers.

Ablett will stay a cat after watching the upstream.

Crappy name, will go the way of Power and Dockers and they'll also struggle for memberships. Should have gone with an animal.. Blue Bottles!.

Their strip looks like a training top, it's like the people in charge of their design had a big night and just decided to submit the most basic design possible. Never thought i'd say this, but i prefer the Dockers look over them!

http://sportal.com.au/afl-news-display/its-the-gold-coast-suns-95365

The logo on the front of the jumper looks like it belongs on a can of sliced peaches.

horrible song, but still greater than fremantle's

"we are the suns of the gold coast sky, in the red yellow blue, we are the suns of the gold coast sky, the team for me and you" ... and then something about never say die. or words to that effect

Freo's is the best! Other than ours.

Freo Heeeeevvve Hooooooo

I can't believe they are sticking with that awful jumper! I would rather fork out for a burlap sack then hand over $100 for that b-grade monstrosity they call a jumper!

I can't believe they are sticking with that awful jumper! I would rather fork out for a burlap sack then hand over $100 for that b-grade monstrosity they call a jumper!

Yeah its very basic. I think the away top looks better with the wave rather than the plain stripes on the side

Hate to disagree but the Freo song sounds like a mix of Nick Cave at his creative worst and a soundtrack to a 1950's Russian propaganda film about a steel mill.

As for the Gold Coast song, it sounds like the third verse of the Port Power song.

The jumpers are horrible, the logo looks like a packet of Rice brand, the GC in the middle of the home jumper is a cheap and nasty rip off of the Sports Tonight logo, the Wave on the away and clash jumpers is cheap and nasty and reminds me of the Adelaide or hawthorn clash strips that everyone rubbish's, the name Suns is ok and the song isn't the worst in the AFL. What is dissapointing is that the Board of the GCFC have forgotten everything they said about 8 months ago. I clearly remember their position being

1. No name to begin with, let the fans decide, let one evolve = fail

2. A traditional, strong football jumper = fail (home one is a pass, just)

Whoever the club had do the graphic design work should bve forced to pay their money back. I have seen jumper designs 10x bettwer on the bigfooty.com site. It isn't that difficult. Shocking job. The colours are weak too. More blue is needed. Massive fail for mine

Surprised they stuck with the training singlet, but it will save them money...

The song is awful my wife who has no interest in footy thought it was a gay song sung by the village people...that about sums it up.

Suns is okay for an example but a shark would have been better IMHO.

You can hear the song here: http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/2010/07/22/241191_gold-coast-afl.html. Click on the video link.

It's crap. Not as bad as West Coast or Fremantle but still bad.

The jumpers are horrible, the logo looks like a packet of Rice brand, the GC in the middle of the home jumper is a cheap and nasty rip off of the Sports Tonight logo, the Wave on the away and clash jumpers is cheap and nasty and reminds me of the Adelaide or hawthorn clash strips that everyone rubbish's, the name Suns is ok and the song isn't the worst in the AFL. What is dissapointing is that the Board of the GCFC have forgotten everything they said about 8 months ago. I clearly remember their position being

1. No name to begin with, let the fans decide, let one evolve = fail

2. A traditional, strong football jumper = fail (home one is a pass, just)

Whoever the club had do the graphic design work should bve forced to pay their money back. I have seen jumper designs 10x bettwer on the bigfooty.com site. It isn't that difficult. Shocking job. The colours are weak too. More blue is needed. Massive fail for mine

Could not agree more "Yeats08" I hope they can play because the Jumper and song are crap.

I would have thought they might try somethng more trad i an aussie rules footy jumper. like...

Suprised they didn't go with this...

Suprised they didn't go with this...

looks better than what they chose. seriously, is the GC logo a rip off of Sports Tonight

Edited July 23, 201015 yr by Yeats_08