Gold Coast set to head overseas for a pre-season training camp for second straight year

The Gold Coast Suns will head overseas for a pre-season training camp for the second consecutive year.

THE Gold Coast Suns will head overseas for a pre-season training camp for the second consecutive year.

The Suns will travel to New Zealand in December where they will base themselves in Queenstown again for a period of time on the South Island.

It follows their initial trip across the Tasman at the end of last year where they spent six days conducting a combination of adventurous team-building exercises with football sessions and education.

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It served as crucial bonding time for a team that welcomed in a raft of new faces, including 13 new players and five coaches.

Gold Coast coach Stuart Dew confirmed it was something the club was set to do again.

“We are looking at going to New Zealand again for a camp,” Dew said.

Aaron Young of the Suns celebrates a goal with team mates during the round 23 AFL match between the Gold Coast Suns and the Greater Western Sydney Giants at Metricon Stadium on August 24, 2019 in Gold Coast, Australia. (Photo by Chris Hyde/Getty Images)

“We think that was a great experience for the group. We worked hard but they also get the time away to work on leadership and team work.

“It’s fairly close as well so there are great benefits to it.”

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The 2018 international training camp was the first Gold Coast had done in five years.

The club spent three consecutive years travelling to Arizona in the U.S. before sacking inaugural coach Guy McKenna in 2014 and remained on the Gold Coast every summer up to last year.

The Suns travelled 65km by foot over five days in New Zealand last year, climbing mountain peaks and crossing flowing rivers while camping in the wilderness each night.

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