BRISBANE Lions great Jonathan Brown says that the Gold Coast Suns need serious help from the AFL as the club is in “terrible” shape.

The Suns have won just 43 games in their 164 game career and Brown says that they “will fold” if something isn’t done immediately.

“I’ve lived on the Gold Coast for the last five years, they do not care about this team at the moment,” Brown emphatically said on Fox Footy’s On The Couch.

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“If we don’t give them help to get them back on track, they will fold and it will be an absolute disaster for the AFL.

“They’ve got to make them competitive.”

The three-time Lions premiership player suggested that if the AFL doesn’t give out concessions to the Suns, they will be forced into the ground.

“If they do not have concessions, special concessions put in place for their list build, they have no hope,” Brown said.

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“At the end of the day, let’s forget about the Gold Coast Suns moving to Tasmania, that’s a load of crap. They’ve got to start again.

“Don’t give me the fluff about, ‘oh we’re going to give them a few extra bucks in the football department and all that’, that’s not going to do a thing.

“The list is shambolic; the best young player at the moment is Ben Ainsworth.”

The Suns face an uphill battle to keep Tom Lynch. Source: Getty Images

The Gold Coast Suns are yet to play finals in their eight-year history and have won just three games in 2018.

Their co-captain Tom Lynch is out of contract at the end of the season, with the Suns facing an uphill battle to keep the key forward.

Brown also pointed the finger squarely at the people who set up the club, after the Suns begun their life in portables.

“It was set up terribly, set up horribly,” he said.

“The people in charge of setting up the club should be absolutely ashamed of how it was all set up. It even includes the AFL, their facilities were a disgrace, they were in portables, they didn’t give the players the best opportunity.

“The list build was terrible — they’ve gone and spent their money on experienced players, older players instead of GWS who go and spend the money on Tom Scully, Phil Davis, Callan Ward who is a star.

“Recruiting and development was poor.”

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After a poor list build, Brown also questioned whether it was worth giving the Suns an “extra ten blokes on their list.”

With the Saints struggling down the in the bottom four, the Queenslander justified why the Suns are worse off than the Saints at this current point in time.

“Down here (in Melbourne) St Kilda are embedded as a football club. They’ve been around for a 100 years, the Gold Coast are there 10 years and nobody wants to play there,” he said.

“The players want to leave there. They have to do something to help Stuart Dew and help the rest of the coaches to build a proper team to be competitive.

“Gold Coast have stuffed up, but they don’t have the benefit of 100 years history and don’t have the rusted on supporter base to get out of it. It’s got to be redone.”

New Suns coach Stuart Dew left scratching his head after a loss. Source: Getty Images

Former Sydney Swans premiership coach Paul Roos also echoed Brown’s thoughts, believing that decision makers at AFL house need to act fast.

“If you’re not at AFL House and not massively concerned about the footy club that is a disgrace,” Roos said on Fox Footy’s On The Couch.

“So you can’t now wipe your hands and let them go because we are in danger of … creating a two-tier competition.”