By Michael Whiting

Gold Coast SUNS coach Guy McKenna said the GC SUNS would not be intimidated by Geelong when they travelled to Skilled Stadium next Saturday.

For the second week in succession, the Suns held their own against a 2010 grand finalist, losing to St Kilda by 20 points on Saturday night after poor goalkicking cost them any chance of victory.

It came seven days after they lost by 54 points to reigning premier Collingwood, but not before squaring the second half.

McKenna said his young team would relish the chance to play Geelong in its own backyard despite the Cats handing Melbourne a humiliating 186-point defeat on Saturday.

It was their 28th straight win at Skilled Stadium.

"It's another great opportunity and challenge. If the boys believe, we're half way there and if we follow up with effort and structure we give ourselves a good chance," McKenna said.

"We're under no illusions how tough that is going to be.

"I think our group's already shown a fair bit of resilience. They'll dust themselves off and recover mentally and physically and go down there and endeavour to win the game.

"I don't think any one of our boys would cower away from an opportunity to go and take on a side like that down there."

McKenna said the GC SUNS would gain confidence from their clash with Geelong in round 10, where Gold Coast led by 11 points at half-time before fading to lose by 66 in its opening match at Metricon Stadium.

Against the Saints, McKenna agreed it was probably his team's most consistent four-quarter performance of the season.

After trailing by 14 points half way through the opening quarter, they were competitive the rest of the night.

"When our structure is there, the boys are believing in each other and where we're trying to go. I can't fault their effort all year," he said.

"We beat Collingwood in the last quarter last week, mind you it was by two points, and we beat St Kilda by a point [in the last quarter] this week, but the work-rate and effort is there and when we get the structure right we give ourselves half a chance."

McKenna said it was fatigue and young bodies more than poor execution that led to Gold Coast SUNS poor goalkicking return of 6.18.