Gold Coast has offered Rodney Eade the senior coaching job, with the 56-year-old almost certain to be the man to take the club into the finals.

The club's selection panel flew into Melbourne on Monday to formally interview the former Sydney and Western Bulldogs coach. The Suns have offered Eade a deal of between three and four years.

Rodney Eade. Credit:Sebastian Costanzo

While Eade has not yet accepted the position, an announcement could come within days after a series of talks that began on the weekend when Eade met the Suns football boss and former Brisbane Bears teammate Marcus Ashcroft.

Fairfax media understands that Eade, Collingwood's director of football, told Magpies coach Nathan Buckley and key club bosses about the meeting.