The Gold Coast SUNS head to Perth this weekend hoping to add two ‘firsts’ to the club’s history. The GC SUNS - taking on the Fremantle Dockers at Paterson Stadium on Saturday evening (6.40pm EST) - have never beaten the Dockers and have never won in Perth.

Fremantle is one of seven teams they are yet to beat, alongside Adelaide, Essendon, Geelong, Hawthorn, Sydney and West Coast. The Dockers have won the only three meetings between the two clubs – by 50 points in Perth in 2011 and by seven points and 45 points at Metricon Stadium in 2012-13.

The SUNS have played four times at Paterson Stadium for an 0-4 record. But they have had two credible losses at the venue to West Coast by 18 points on their second visit west in 2011, and by 17 points in Round 19 last year.

Only four SUNS players have played in each of the four games in Perth – Gary Ablett, Sam Day, Trent McKenzie and Danny Stanley.

Three members of the side that beat Richmond last Saturday week to open the season, are in line for their first visit to Subiaco – Round 1 debutants Clay Cameron and Sean Lemmens, plus ruckman Tom Nicholls.

West Australians on the SUNS’ playing list looking forward to a trip home will be Greg Broughton, Brandon Matera, Jaeger O’Meara and David Swallow.

Ablett holds the Suns record for most possessions in a game at Paterson Oval – 34 against Fremantle in Round 15 2011. The skipper is also the only SUNS player to have topped 30 possessions in a game in Perth – he also had 32 against West Coast in Round 11 2011. He is also the club’s leading goal-kicker at Paterson Stadium with eight. He kicked three goals against Fremantle at the venue in 2011 to share the club record for most goals in a game at Patersons with Alex Sexton, who bagged a hat-trick against West Coast last year.

O’Meara, with 498 possessions in 23 AFL games, will head home looking to become the equal third-fastest SUNS players to 500 possessions for the club.

He will equal the 24-game mark of Sam Iles, who played with the Suns in 2011-12. Only Ablett (18 games) and Michael Rischitelli (22 games) have reached this milestone quicker.

Assuming he gets the two possessions he needs to reach 500, O’Meara, who will be the 17^th SUNS player to this milestone; one game quicker than Swallow and Stanley; two games quicker than Jarrod Harbrow and Harley Bennell; three games ahead of Jared Brennan; and four up on Dion Prestia.

Interestingly. Swallow has been the SUNS’ best-performed player overall against Fremantle according to club championship votes, ahead of Ablett, Prestia, Bennell and Harbrow.

In matches at Subiaco, Ablett heads the SUNS vote tally from Bennell, Swallow, the injured Nathan Bock, Harbrow, Danny Stanley and McKenzie.

It was against Fremantle in Round 6, 2012, when the SUNS were beaten by seven points at Metricon, that Bennell recorded a perfect score in the club championship from the match committee, polling 20 votes from a maximum of 20 from four voting members. This has only happened six times in club history – four times by Ablett and twice by Bennell.