Gold Coast Suns set to re-sign football manager Jon Haines
Gold Coast are set to lock away another key pillar of the future, with one of the figures brought in to fix the club set to extend his contract with the Suns.
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GOLD Coast are set to lock away another key pillar of the future, with football manager Jon Haines set to extend his contract with the Suns.
Much of the focus has been on the announcement of Stuart Dew’s impending deal but Gold Coast have also moved to ensure his right-hand man is by his side in the coming years.
Haines revealed his discussions with CEO Mark Evans had been positive and declared he would be at the club beyond 2020.
“I’ll be here,” Haines said.
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“We are just working through what that looks like. It hasn’t been a priority over the past few months while we work out what is going on but that will sort itself out over the next little bit.
“We are all keen to see it through and feel like we have done a lot of hard work over the last couple of years to get the foundations right.
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“Now we can start seeing some good signs. We will have a lot of hard work to do so I’m keen to see it through.”
Haines joined Gold Coast at the end of 2017 on the back of a review that also resulted in Stuart Dew landing the role as head coach and Craig Cameron being signed as the list manager.
He joined the club from the WA Football Commission where he was football operations manager.
Prior to that he worked in development and football operations at North Melbourne under industry veterans Donald McDonald and Geoff Walsh.
In 2013 he and Kangaroos’ list manager Cam Joyce shared the responsibility of running the football department on a caretaker basis until Walsh returned to the club after McDonald moved into another role following the drafting of his son Luke.
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