Sam Flanders has etched his name into the Gold Coast SUNS record books after setting a new benchmark for most disposals in a single season.

Flanders’ 29 disposals against Richmond was enough for the 23-year-old to overtake AFL legend Gary Ablett Jnr and post 680 disposals for the year at an average of 30.9 per game.

Ablett’s previous record of 675 was set in the 2012 season where the former captain averaged 33.75 disposals from 20 games.

Noah Anderson’s 30-disposal effort against the Tigers was also enough to see him jump into fourth place behind Touk Miller (2021), with 666 possessions from 23 games this year.

Flanders has finished the season ranked second in the AFL for average disposals behind Adam Treloar, and fifth overall despite missing one game through illness earlier in the year.

Ben King has finished the year on 55 goals, ranking as the second-best season by a SUN behind Tom Lynch (66 in 2017). King also finished fourth in the 2024 Coleman Medal count.

Matt Rowell led the AFL in tackles with 184, but fell just short of his tackle record of 190 set last year. Rowell now holds the top-two tackling season in Gold Coast SUNS history.

Vice-captain Sam Collins also made history, completing his fourth full season to equal the club record of former captain David Swallow and co-captains Touk Miller and Jarrod Witts.

On a 75-game unbroken streak that is equal 11^th in the competition, he joins Matt Rowell, who has played 78 games in a row, in clocking his third full season in a row.

Witts, who didn’t miss a game in 2018-19-20, is the only other SUNS player to play three consecutive full seasons.

Noah Anderson and Charlie Ballard have logged their second consecutive full season on Saturday, with Rowell and Anderson joining foundation SUNS signing Jarrod Harbrow with a total of three full seasons.

The SUNS have recorded 11 wins in a season for the first time in club history, overtaking the previous best of 10 wins in 2022.