\n The Suns are playing their first AFL final, but how many of their other firsts can you remember?\n <\/p>\n
(Clockwise from left): Andrew Boston, Karmichael Hunt, Charlie Dixon and Gary Ablett jnr. Pictures: AFL Photos<\/p>\n
IT’S taken 15 seasons, but Gold Coast will finally play its first final against Fremantle at Optus Stadium on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Following last week’s win over Essendon to confirm their spot in the top eight, Jarrod Witts said he didn’t expect to have to wait this long to play in September \u2013 and he’s ‘only’ been at the club since the end of 2016.<\/p>\n
About to tick off one of the last ‘firsts’ for the club got us thinking \u2013 who else and when else did the Suns create history?<\/p>\n
Take a trip back in time and scroll down to see if these names or moments ring a bell. Or perhaps use some of them at your next local trivia night.\u00a0<\/p>\n
List of Gold Coast’s firsts<\/p>\n
Signed player:\u00a0Charlie Dixon
Captain:\u00a0Marc Lock
Coach: Guy McKenna
AFL club champion: Gary Ablett jnr (2011)
Win as a club:\u00a0April 12, 2009, v Western Jets 26.13 (169) v 5.5 (35)
Win\u00a0in the AFL:\u00a0April 23, 2011, v Port Adelaide 15.14 (104) v 15.11 (101)
Kick:\u00a0Nathan Krakouer
Handball:\u00a0Campbell Brown
Free for:\u00a0Nathan Krakouer
Free against:\u00a0Gary Ablett jnr
Point:\u00a0Zac Smith (behind)
Goal:\u00a0Charlie Dixon
Suspension: Campbell Brown. The Suns enforcer received a pair of two-game bans, making four weeks in total, for separate incidents with Callan Ward and Barry Hall in the Suns’ second-ever match against the Western Bulldogs in 2011
Goal after the siren to win: Karmichael Hunt, July 14, 2012, v Richmond
Player drafted through Academy:\u00a0Andrew Boston
Player traded in: Matthew Warnock (2011)
Free agent: Tom Murphy (2012)
Win at home: August 11, 2012, v Greater Western Sydney (18th\u00a0home game)
Brownlow votes: Gary Ablett jnr 3, Michael Rischitelli 2, Brandon Matera 1 v Port Adelaide, round five, 2011
Brownlow Medal:\u00a0Gary Ablett jnr (2013)
Final:\u00a0September 6, 2025, v Fremantle at Optus Stadium<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Suns are playing their first AFL final, but how many of their other firsts can you remember?…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":["post-119081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}