Kade Kolodjashnij has become the 12th member the Gold Coast SUNS 30 Club.

Kolodashnij had a career-best 30 possessions in the SUNS’ loss to the Western Bulldogs in Cairns on Saturday to continue an outstanding second season at the top level.

The Tasmanian defender reached 30 touches for the first time in his 32-game career for the SUNS as Gary Ablett did so for the 48th time.

The pair now bookend the 30 Club in which injured vice-captain Dion Prestia is the No.2 member with 12 30-possessions games.

Others in this group are Michael Rischitelli and Harley Bennell, who have topped 30 possessions for the club six times, Jarrod Harbrow (3), Jaeger O’Meara (3), Jared Brennan (2), David Swallow (2), Danny Stanley (2), Daniel Harris (1), Mitch Hallahan (1) and Kolodjashnij.

The consistent Kolodjashnij was the headline positive in a game which had plenty of highs and lows.

It would not have pleased coach Rodney Eade that for the first time in 102 games the SUNS lost after leading at each change. Or that the Dogs’ 11-2 final quarter was the biggest final quarter ever scored against the SUNS and the fifth biggest single quarter score all time.

Or that the 26-point three-quarter time lead given up was the biggest in SUNS history.

But there were plenty of significant positives.

  • Tom Lynch became the second player behind Gary Ablett to kick 100 goals for the Suns. He reached triple figures in his 72nd game after the skipper did so a week earlier in his 79th game.
  • Aaron Hall became the sixth player to reach 50 Suns goals. He now sits behind Ablett (103), Lynch (101), Bennell (88), Charlie Dixon (81) and Brandon Matera (70) on the all-time list.
  • Nick Malceski kicked his first Suns goal.
  • Ablett became the first player to post 2500 possessions for the Suns in his 80th game. He has been remarkably consistent. Having reached his first 500 possessions for the club in his 18th Suns game, Ablett reached 1000 possessions in his 30th game, 1500 in his 48th game and 2000 in his 63rd game.
  • Lynch, doing his best up forward to compensate for the early loss through injury of Charlie Dixon, had a personal best six contested marks. This ranks second on the club’s all-time list behind only Tom Hickey’s seven contested marks against Collingwood in 2012.
  • Lynch also became the eighth player to reach 500 contested possessions for the Suns behind Ablett (1218), Swallow (755), Prestia (749), Rischitelli (679), Stanley (608), Bennell (594) and Harbrow (532).
  • Malceski, Mitch Hallahan and Touk Miller played their first game in Cairns. Harbrow, Swallow and Matt Shaw are now the only Suns players to have played in each of the club’s five games at Cazaly’s.