Gold Coast Suns captain Jarrod Witts says team has the talent on the list to turn performances around

Nearly everyone in football has put forth a way to fix the Suns but Gold Coast captain Jarrod Witts says they already have the talent to turn things around and succeed.

NEARLY everyone in football has put forth a way to fix the Suns but Gold Coast captain Jarrod Witts says they already have the talent to turn things around and succeed.

Priority picks, using them to secure experienced players and extra room in the salary cap have all been mooted by the likes of AFL great Jonathan Brown and others as the football industry tries to find a way to lift the struggling Suns who are in line to finish with the wooden spoon.

It comes after 12 straight losses, the last two producing a combined losing margin of 187 points.

But Witts said the playing group needed to block out the external noise and declared they had the quality on the list already to improve the club’s position.

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“With the way we play footy our roles and clarity is pretty simple,” Witts said.

“We play a really effort based game plan so I think we have the men here and we have been getting the games into some of the younger guys who are starting to have career best years. “Darcy Macpherson has shown up this year, Jack Lukosius and Ben king have shown a bit. “The more games we can get into those guys it’s going to help us in the long run.”

Jarrod Witts of the Suns and teammates leave the field after losing the round 15 AFL match between the Sydney Swans and the Gold Coast Suns at Sydney Cricket Ground on June 29, 2019 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Cameron Spencer/AFL Photos via Getty Images)

Gold Coast are already without a host of their best including Jack Bowes, Ben Ainsworth, Callum Ah Chee, Jack Martin, Wil Powell, Sam Collins and Rory Thompson and will be without Anthony Miles after the midfielder was given a one-game suspension for his high shot on Adelaide’s Riley Knight.

Witts revealed the playing group had set themselves some key performance indicators in Monday’s team meeting for the final six games before he and fellow co-captain David Swallow addressed the group too.

“We came up with some KPI’s as a team,” Witts said.

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“When you come to see us you can see a contested ball team, a good clearance team who fights contest to contest.

“We have gone away from that in the last two weeks so we have set up some KPI’s moving forward to try and nut that down and that will be our focus moving forward for the next few weeks.

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“We haven’t had a great couple of months, that’s pretty obvious. We can’t afford to go inside ourselves now.

“The last six weeks of season are really important ones for some individuals at the club and the team collectively, so we need to come out and help each other and come out of ourselves and take it on.”

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