The first domino has fallen at Gold Coast with Rodney Eade removed as senior coach late Monday night, with former Essendon premiership player Dean Solomon to lead the Suns for the rest of 2017.

Chief executive Mark Evans told Eade of the club's decision late on Monday evening, after presenting part of his football department review to the board at a specially convened meeting on Monday.

Suns chairman Tony Cochrane said that "the wins-loss ratio is not what we want it to be, not even close" and while "these are difficult decisions to make", they had to focus on a future under a new senior coach.

"The board asked Mark to do a full evaluation ... of our football department back in mid June," Cochrane said. "Clearly the senior coach was a key component of that review.