Dew ponders King call-up for Suns

Gold Coast coach Stuart Dew is pondering his options up front ahead of a trip to Adelaide to face a depleted Port on Sunday.

Draftee Ben King and an in-form Sam Day shape as options up front for Gold Coast coach Stuart Dew, who admits their scrappy, low-scoring style needs a makeover.

The Suns have managed a 3-5 start this season - it could easily have been 4-4 after last round's final-second loss to Melbourne - despite averaging just 63 points a game.

Injury to Sean Lemmens leaves Dew with plenty of options for Sunday's clash with Port Adelaide, where he hopes they can prove more effective up front.

"We would like to be scoring more, no doubt," Dew said.

"How we get that, everyone contributes to that ... we won't bring one person in to fix it but collectively we will hammer away at the synergy."

Dew said Day needed to "charge through the door" to earn selection after finding form in the NEAFL, while No.6 pick King had done enough to show he was ready.

"Now we are probably coming to a point where (we ask) 'do we play one of them, can they both play', we just have to work it out," he said.

But neither may get a start though, with Dew just as likely to rotate a midfielder through the forward line.

"We have told those boys we are not set on one particular structure but each week might look a little different," he said.

"Jack Martin can play forward, Jack Bowes as well, we know Ben Ainsworth has hit the scoreboard last week.

"We are looking to spread the load; we are not asking someone to come in and kick four. It would be good though."

Brayden Fiorini looks set to return from a leg injury to replace midfielder Touk Miller, who is nursing a sore heel, while Pearce Hanley is another out to face a Port (4-4) side on a two-match losing streak.


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