Struggling Suns to pick up Eurotrip tab

SEVEN staff from footy’s $200 million disaster club, Gold Coast Suns, are enjoying a two week European junket on club funds.

After the Suns’ poor 2017 financial performance forced the AFL to lift its yearly support payments to $25 million, Gold Coast says the tour would provide an insight into the workings of elite sporting teams, including soccer clubs Arsenal and Southampton.

But Facebook and Instagram posts by Suns tour party members detail a whirlwind of major sporting events, social activities and sightseeing.

People and organisation development manager Megan Green boasted on Instagram: “Sooo much fun with my UK family. Chinatown, lobster, wine on the Thames, London Bridge and Tower and Buckingham Palace.”

Posts capture Green posing outside the iconic Covent Garden Market and in front of a royal guard.

Football operations and compliance manager Scott Pyle has posted images and video from the Saracens’ European Rugby Champions Cup win over French side Lyon last weekend.

One friend commented: “Good to see you lads doing it hard over there.”

On Monday night, the crew enjoyed Arsenal’s 3-1 victory over Leicester City at Emirates Stadium.

And on Wednesday night, Pyle was almost 350km north, watching from the famous Kop as Liverpool demolished Red Star Belgrade 4-0 in the Champions League. “Anfield amazing,” he says. Responding to Pyle’s social media updates, a friend jokes: “Hope it’s not all party time over there, you know you have a job to do.”