
THE IDENTITY of the league's 17th club is official with the unveiling of the Gold Coast Suns in Queensland on Thursday night. Gold Coast's home, away and clash strips, along with the club song, were also revealed ahead of the new franchise's 2011 entry into the AFL. Chief executive Travis Auld said settling on the nickname was not a tough decision in the end. "When the name Suns came up it was just so damn obvious," he said. "It's a fantastic name for our new football club. "It represent all our values - relentless, dependable, community, bold and fresh - and it has a sense of the great elements of the Gold Coast. "The sun is why people come here." Auld said Stingrays and Sharks were other options discussed, but ruled out for various commercial reasons. "If you call yourself the Sharks you can't have a clothing range in Australia, because Greg Norman owns the rights to do it," Auld said. "More than 100 names came to our attention over the past year or so, but we thought Suns was...
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