Get your seats to Suns v Cats<\/a><\/p>\n“Trac’s leadership stands for itself, he’s a really successful player in his own right,” Noble said.<\/p>\n
“He’s bringing his experiences across and helping our group step forward with our standards.<\/p>\n
”Marra’ (Ugle-Hagan) has been thrown in the deep end and is cracking in. He’s instinctual and bringing boys with him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I couldn’t ask for more from those two.”<\/p>\n
After 212 games in 11 seasons at Melbourne, Petracca sought a fresh start with a move to the Suns and has not missed a beat since heading north, while Ugle-Hagan has turned heads with his fitness after missing last season.<\/p>\n
Gold Coast completed an open session that exceeded two hours in front of hordes of supporters at People First Stadium on Thursday.<\/p>\n
They integrated a full ground match simulation in conditions that exceeded 30 degrees.<\/p>\n
“There is an adjustment period,” Noble said.<\/p>\n
“It is different to Melbourne obviously with the fluctuation of weather down there.<\/p>\n
“I think it’s better for your fitness. I know I was surprised when I came here how fit these boys were.<\/p>\n
“It is an adjustment period that probably takes a couple of months to get used to it.”<\/p>\n
John Noble during Gold Coast’s training session at People First Stadium on December 1, 2025. Picture: Getty Images<\/p>\n
The Suns have almost their entire list to choose from, aside from key defender Charlie Ballard who is in the late stages of recovery from a knee reconstruction, ahead of facing St Kilda on February 19 and Brisbane on February 26 in their pre-season hitouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Noble says Christian Petracca and Jamarra Ugle-Hagan have raised the bar at training in their first pre-season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":["post-436856","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\/436856","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=436856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}