Boom Gold Coast youngster Jaeger O'Meara believes his teammates must use their final match of the AFL season as redemption following last weekend's loss to St Kilda.
Suns coach Guy McKenna slammed his team's effort in the 46-point loss to the out-of-form Saints at Etihad Stadium, labelling it the club's "stinker for the year".
And O'Meara hopes the team will show more of what they're about when their 2013 campaign wraps up on Sunday against Greater Western Sydney at Metricon Stadium.
"We need to improve from our game yesterday and hopefully we can do that this weekend," O'Meara told reporters on Monday.
"We've got one more opportunity.
"I don't think we took St Kilda lightly. They played well and to their credit they deserved to win.
"We just didn't play our best footy and when we don't play our best footy then we get exposed."
After notching five wins in the first half of the season, the Suns have lost eight of their past 10 games.
McKenna suggested there were "creaks and groans" within his team following the clash with the Saints.
O'Meara is one of those who people fear may be running out of steam after playing all of the Suns' fixtures in his first season of AFL football.
But the 19-year-old dismissed those concerns, saying the Suns can no longer rely on their youth to be an excuse for poor performance.
"We've had three seasons now, going into our fourth, and we can't afford to have those fade-outs," he said.
"We've played 21 games now and I think everyone in the AFL is starting to run out of legs but we've got one more opportunity to improve ourselves."
