Book description
This is the story of the group of footballers who took the Gold Coast
SUNS' first steps.'Throw out your birth certificates, boys. This game
couldn't care less how old you are.' Guy McKenna Gold Coast SUNS Senior
Coach AFL is a fiercely competitive game built on a more than a century
of tradition. On April 2, 2011, the Gold Coast SUNS, the AFL's newest
club, set out to forge their very own. This is the story of the group of
footballers who took the Gold Coast SUNS' first steps. It's the story of
the community that banded together and cheered them on. It's a story
about brilliant victories, horrible floggings, freakish talent, wasted
chances, tireless enthusiasm and limitless determination. It's also the
story of the game's expansionist frontier told from the very front row.
Exciting, revealing, tragic, funny, and always tinted by the raw,
unbridled emotion so unique to Australia's indigenous code, this is the
up close and personal tale of a club's first steps in a brave new
sporting world. It took Matt Webber the better part of a decade to
realise a listless existence as an unimaginative litigation lawyer
wasn't making him very happy. Things turned for the better when he
ditched the timesheets and began scribbling for a sporadic quid. And
when an impromptu conversation with Gold Coast Suns CEO Travis Auld on a
plane home from the 2009 AFL Grand Final morphed into a year as the
club's in-house scribe, well, Christmas arrived early and things just
fell into place. House of the Rising Suns, a from-the-outer analysis of
the Gold Coast Suns' first year in the AFL, will be Matt's first book.
Matt is married to the unflinchingly supportive Samantha. They have two
daughters, Daisy, 3, definitely a Saint, and Peggy, 1, maybe a Sun.
