Suns sack coach after 'relationships soured'

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By Ben Glover and Emily Patterson

The Gold Coast Suns person sacked caput manager Stuart Dew aft a "loss of faith" successful the club's direction.

Last week starring writer Caroline Wilson told Nine's Footy Classified that Dew was facing the axe and six days aboriginal the manager of 5 years has been told his clip is up.

According to aggregate reports, Suns players were told the quality connected Tuesday morning, with an authoritative connection pursuing from the nine soon afterwards.

Gold Coast Suns manager Stuart Dew. (Getty)

"Last nighttime the Gold Coast Suns committee of directors met, and it was determined that Stuart Dew would not proceed successful his relation arsenic elder coach," nine president Bob East was quoted successful the statement.

"We consciousness we person a large accidental to execute occurrence with this radical but haven't seen the betterment we were aft successful 2023 and arsenic a shot nine we indispensable beryllium prepared to marque pugnacious decisions, successful that pursuit of success.

"Stuart has made a important publication to this shot club, dedicating countless hours towards helping found a level from which our nine tin grow, and I'd similar to instrumentality this accidental to convey him, his woman Sarah and household for the past six years."

The connection confirmed elder adjunct manager Steven King would instrumentality implicit arsenic interim manager for the remainder of 2023.

Wilson connected Monday nighttime said that since her archetypal study she had discovered that much relationships astatine the nine had "soured".

"There's been a nonaccomplishment of religion to a grade successful Stuart Dew from much elder radical astatine the nine than I had realised," she said.

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Fronting the media connected Tuesday, East explained that the determination rested connected gathering the club's expectations of occurrence and commitments to its partners.

"I privation to marque it crystal wide that we are holding this nine to account," helium said.

"There is simply a wide spread from wherever we presently beryllium and wherever our expectations prevarication and the elder manager enactment process volition beryllium solely designed to adjacent that spread for our players, stakeholders, admin, firm partners, sponsors, members and fans.

"You'll good admit determination are mixed emotions, but 1 happening is clear: We are perfectly determined to marque the adjacent steps for this shot club, the steps that this nine truthful richly deserves."

Despite Dew's presumption being a constituent of nationalist treatment successful caller weeks, East claimed that the termination process was wholly evidence-based.

"This determination was successful nary mode been influenced by media," helium said.

"This is simply a process driven by grounds and a systematic process of evaluating what we request for this club."

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With the determination coming little than a week aft CEO Mark Evans publically voiced his enactment for Dew, Evans claimed that his erstwhile comments were truthful astatine the clip but changed erstwhile the determination was made connected Monday night.

"Once you've made the decision, you've made the decision. It would beryllium incorrect to proceed aft making that decision,' helium said.

"Once we identified that Stewie wasn't going to beryllium our manager we acted connected it."

Asked if the nine would present acceptable astir targeting erstwhile Richmond manager Damien Hardwick to instrumentality implicit the reins, Evans was blunt successful his reply.

"No, I privation to woody with this spot decently and past I'll bring immoderate thoughts backmost to the committee successful owed course," helium said.

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