\n Craig Cameron will lead the football department at Gold Coast, with Kall Burns promoted to list manager\n <\/p>\n
Craig Cameron speaks to media on day one of the 2025 Continental Tyres AFL Trade Period at Marvel Stadium. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n
CRAIG Cameron has been appointed Gold Coast GM of Football, while Suns national recruiting manager Kall Burns \u2013 the longest-serving staff member at the club \u2013 is set to be promoted to list manager ahead of 2026.<\/p>\n
The Suns have been restructuring the football department since Wayne Campbell returned to New South Wales at the end of the season for a role closer to family running the Sydney Swans’ academy.<\/p>\n
Cameron stepped up in an interim capacity during the trade period and has now been installed as GM in a similar role to Sam Power at the Western Bulldogs, Jason McCartney at Greater Western Sydney and Andrew Mackie at Geelong.<\/p>\n
Unlike all other non-Victorian list bosses, Cameron has been living on the Gold Coast and working from the Suns’ headquarters in Carrara in recent years.<\/p>\n
Cameron arrived at Gold Coast at the end of 2017, replacing Scott Clayton after being poached from Greater Western Sydney, following 18 months in the role at the Giants.<\/p>\n
Before working for both expansion sides, Cameron spent five years as Richmond’s head of football when Damien Hardwick first arrived at Punt Road, following 11 years as Melbourne’s recruiting manager.<\/p>\n
Cameron will remain involved in list management but will now lead the football department at the Suns, focusing on football operations and travelling with the team across the season.<\/p>\n
Burns started at the club as a volunteer ahead of the inaugural season in 2011, moving up from Melbourne to join the expansion club before progressing from sports science to GPS analyst to the recruitment department.<\/p>\n
Kall Burns during the Continental Tyres AFL Trade Period at Marvel Stadium on October 16, 2024. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n
Weeks after Cameron joined the Suns, Burns was promoted to national recruiting manager at the start of 2018, following Dom Ambrogio’s move to Brisbane.<\/p>\n
Clubs have come for Burns across recent years, but his 16th\u00a0season at Gold Coast will be his first as list boss.<\/p>\n
Gold Coast explored a move for Danny Daly, but the highly rated Brisbane GM chose to remain at the Lions rather than moving down the highway to reunite with Hardwick at the Suns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Craig Cameron will lead the football department at Gold Coast, with Kall Burns promoted to list manager Craig…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-249367","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-text","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249367","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=249367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}