Trade and draft review: Suns rise and rise again
At the end of 2019, a battered Gold Coast side limped to the club’s second wooden spoon in nine years, on the back of 18 losses in a row and growing calls for the franchise to be relocated to Tasmania. But GC17 had been the vehicle which helped propel Gillon McLachlan to become CEO in waiting and the executive team led by Mark Evans and Tony Cochrane had a comprehensive plan which the AFL commission found compelling enough to tick off three-quarters of the requests. While the Suns didn’t get extra...