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Katie Woolf spoke with Gold Coast Suns CEO Mark Evans · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: MIXI a four point nine dot com for all the
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  Speaker 1: latest news and information. Now three sixty with Katie Wolf.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone is listening Mix one O four point nine one hundred.
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  Speaker 1: It is time to talk footy.
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  Speaker 2: And joining me on the line right now is the
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  Speaker 2: Gold Coast Sons Chief executive Mark Evans. Good morning to you, Mark.
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  Speaker 3: Hello Katie. Yeah, lots of views around town this morning,
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  Speaker 3: isn't there. We're a part of that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Promote the round eleven match against the Mighty Hawks, blockbuster event.
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  Speaker 3: We wanted to be a massive event for the Suns
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  Speaker 3: and to the territory and good chance I think we
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  Speaker 3: can get the AFL to give us a marquee time
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  Speaker 3: slot to celebrate Sir Doug Nichols round.
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  Speaker 2: Well, mate, you seem to be here quite often at
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  Speaker 2: the moment. Are the Suns going to move to the
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  Speaker 2: Gold Coast? I mean to so the Northern Territory.
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  Speaker 3: It's our second home at the moment and we love
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  Speaker 3: coming here and just brought a wonderful lifestyle, safest place
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  Speaker 3: in Australia and we feel very much at home when
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  Speaker 3: we get here.
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  Speaker 2: So what's the announcement all about today? Just launching that
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  Speaker 2: round eleven game and is it something that we're going
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  Speaker 2: to see sort of here each and every year.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe we're very proud of it, and we've said to
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  Speaker 3: the AFL that worked so well, you know, showcasing s
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  Speaker 3: Doug Nichols Round attracting the Dreamtime Game last year, that
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  Speaker 3: we wanted to be part of that again this year.
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  Speaker 3: So we are now pushing for the AFL to give
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  Speaker 3: us a marquee timeslot so we can really kick off
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  Speaker 3: that Sir Doug Nichols Round in great fashion and so far,
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  Speaker 3: so good. They can't guarantee the fixture at this point
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  Speaker 3: of time because of all of the machinations with COVID
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  Speaker 3: around the country, but they're the discussions we're having.
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  Speaker 2: With them, and we know the round does recognize the
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  Speaker 2: contribution of current and past indigenous footballers, including many Territorians.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think that that is it's one of
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  Speaker 2: the reasons why this is such an important round for
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  Speaker 2: the territory, I think so.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the territory should be absolutely front and center
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  Speaker 3: of that round. And as you know, Belbould also play
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  Speaker 3: a game in Alice Springs and I think the AFL
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  Speaker 3: are contemplating having the Sadarg Nicol celebrations across two rounds,
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  Speaker 3: with the Darwin match in round eleven and then the
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  Speaker 3: Alice Springs match in round twelve.
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  Speaker 2: Now it is still a little while off, but what
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  Speaker 2: can we expect that weekend when the Suns are in
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  Speaker 2: town and they're going to be doing some stuff out
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  Speaker 2: in the community and with our school students and that
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  Speaker 2: type of thing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're here at the moment, and a couple of
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  Speaker 3: our players out at Ladmellow Primary School this morning and
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  Speaker 3: doing some things out there. Last year when we came
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  Speaker 3: to town, we were in the bubble, the COVID bubble
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  Speaker 3: for the AFL's protocols. This time around, we hope that
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  Speaker 3: we can come here and spend a bit of time
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  Speaker 3: in the community seeing kids out at their footy clubs,
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  Speaker 3: but also in schools. We've got some big plans to
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  Speaker 3: launch some school program activities across this year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it'd be wonderful to see. I think I said
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  Speaker 2: this to you last time you're on the show. I
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  Speaker 2: think it's so important. It's one of the really important
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  Speaker 2: parts of a partnership is having those footy clubs and
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  Speaker 2: having those wonderful players visiting our young students and you know,
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  Speaker 2: reminding them really that anything's possible when they're involved in sport.
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  Speaker 3: That's right and part of the community involvement means that
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  Speaker 3: we can support education outcomes as well, and we've created
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  Speaker 3: online a learning module that we hope to launch through
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  Speaker 3: the territory later on in the year, so it should
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  Speaker 3: be quite exciting.
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  Speaker 2: Well, gold Co's Sons Chief Executive Mark Evans. Always great
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  Speaker 2: to talk to you, mate, Thanks so much for your
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  Speaker 2: time this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks Katie, thank you.