Matthew Lloyd has called for the AFL to give Gold Coast a Friday night game in the upcoming fixture block.
The Queensland-based team came into the AFL in 2011 and has never played on the Friday night stage.
The nature of the 2020 season means the AFL must release the fixture in small blocks to navigate the difficult COVID-19 waters, but the advantage of this is rewarding teams that are hot with big fixture slots.
The Suns are as hot as any team right now, sitting third on the ladder following wins over West Coast and Adelaide.
Lloyd would like to see them under Friday night lights to see what happens.
“I think they’ve breathed life into this competition. A competition that if they weren’t there you’d go, 'Yeah, it’s been an okay season', but the Suns have put excitement in,” he told Sportsday.
“So much so that I saw someone say put them on a Friday night.
“I would have laughed at that two weeks ago. I would love the next round that comes out for the Gold Coast Suns to play a big team on a Friday night.
“They’re playing a great brand of footy.”
Games in Queensland can now be played in front of 10,000 people and the Suns could hypothetically take on another firing team in Brisbane in the Q-Clash on a Friday night.
Brownlow Medallist Gerard Healy finds the whole situation funny, considering some in the football media were calling for the Suns to be folded only a month ago.
“Four weeks ago people were trying to wind them up,” Healy said.
Gold Coast has a big chance to hold onto their top four spot this week, hosting Fremantle at Metricon Stadium.