Andrew Raines will turn the family clock back 28 years to debut for the Gold Coast SUNS tomorrow at the same venue where father Geoff played in the very first AFL game on the tourist strip.

It was Round 4 1987 when the fledgling Brisbane Bears played their first home game on Easter Sunday, 19 April, against Fitzroy at what was then known simply as Carrara.

Raines Snr, a 254-game champion with Richmond, Collingwood, Essendon and the Bears, had 24 possessions and kicked two goals for the Bears as they lost by 15 points a match in which Fitzroy’s Doug Barwick and Richard Osborne kicked seven goals apiece.

Among Raines’ Brisbane teammates on that historic occasion were inaugural Bears B&F winner Phillip Walsh, who will coach the Adelaide Crows against the SUNS on Saturday night, plus former Port Adelaide premiership coach Mark Williams, prominent media commentators Matthew Campbell (FoxFooty) and Brad Hardie (6PR), and SANFL High Performance Manager Brenton Phillips.

Among those in the Fitzroy side that day who are still prominent in the game at national level were Melbourne coach Paul Roos, Gold Coast SUNS List & Strategy Manager Scott Clayton, AFL Queensland CEO Mick Conlan, Port Adelaide CEO Keith Thomas, Collingwood recruiter Matt Rendell and AFL Tasmania High Performance Manager Mathew Armstrong.

Raines Jnr, 42 days beyond his first birthday on the day AFL football arrived on the Gold Coast, will become the 19^th Queenslander to play for the SUNS amid an historic club double.

Included after being elevated from the SUNS rookie list this week, the 29-year-old ex-Richmond and Brisbane utility gets his chance after the biggest selection shake-up in SUNS history.

And, the former Southport junior will join a seven-man Queensland contingent in the SUNS side – an equal club record.

Raines will become the third player to play for the two Queensland AFL clubs after the SUNS’ current acting captain Michael Rischitelli and Jared Brennan.

When SUNS coach Rodney Eade announced seven team changes on Thursday night for Round 6 he surpassed by one the previous highest number of changes, which occurred four times in the four years under predecessor Guy McKenna.

They were in Round 7 2011, after they’d been beaten by Essendon by 139 points in Round 6, and three times when they’d been hit hard by injuries – in Round 22 2011 and Rounds 20-21 2012.

The seven Queenslanders named in the SUNS side to take on the Crows are Raines, Charlie Dixon, Jarrod Harbrow and Alex Sexton, plus Rory Thompson, who returns from injury, and Zac Smith and Clay Cameron, who were promoted from the Reserves.

This equals the record homegrown contingent of seven players who played Brisbane at the Gabba in Round 3 2013 – Dixon, Harbrow, Smith, Thompson, Jackson Allen, Karmichael Hunt and Joel Wilkinson.

Raines, an Australian International Rules representative in 2006 who played 56 games for Richmond (2004-09) and 67 games for Brisbane (2010-14), will also become the sixth Queenslander to play for three or more different AFL clubs.

Heading this list is Gold Coaster Ben Hudson, who played a total of 168 AFL games for four clubs - Adelaide (2004-07), Western Bulldogs (2008-11), Brisbane (2012) and Collingwood (2013-14).

Other three-club Queenslanders have been Richard Murrie (111 games for Footscray 1975-79, Geelong 1980-82 and Richmond 1983), Trevor Spencer (44 games for Essendon 1985-89, Melbourne 1990-91 and Geelong 1991), Mal Michael (238 game for Collingwood 1997-2000, Brisbane 2001-06 and Essendon 2007-08) and Trent Knobel (75 games for Brisbane 2000-01, St.Kilda 2002-04 and Richmond 2005-06).