Gold Coast coach Guy McKenna says the Suns are only just warming up Gold Coast coach Guy McKenna says the Suns can't afford to rest on their laurels after winning five games. GOLD Coast coach Guy McKenna says the Suns are only just warming up. McKenna's message to his players before they spread far and wide around the country for their bye week is simple: Do not be satisfied with the first half of the season. The 43-point loss to Essendon at Etihad Stadium on Saturday night was the Suns' seventh defeat from 12 outings in 2013, leaving them 12th on the ladder. McKenna was making no excuses for the loss to the Bombers, despite the heavy injury toll andntsD it beingnte the club's third away game against a finals-bound side in four weeks. "We got greedy, turned the ball over and they went coast-to-coast," McKenna said. We are growing up and growing up rapidly. We've moved from the lightweight class into the middleweights, but heavyweight teams like Essendon tear you apart if you don't execute well. McKenna said the Suns were determined to burn brightly for the rest of 2013. "We expected to compete for longer this year, and the result of that is five wins, but we can't be satisfied with that," he said. The boys get the chance to freshen up physically and mentally with the bye, but any thoughts of fading out in the second half year are certainly not on anybody's agenda. We are looking to finish the year better than we started it. We have probably passed the nastiest stage of the season in terms of the sides we play, and we'll start to get some players back in the coming weeks too. The Gold Coast have seven very winnable games left in 2013, with clashes against Adelaide, Brisbane, Richmond, Melbourne, Port Adelaide, St Kilda and GWS remaining. The Gold Coast will be without forward Tom Lynch for up to 12 weeks, after he suffered a posterior cruciate ligament injury in a sickening first-half collision. Michael Rischitelli had scans on his right arm which cleared him of any major fractures. He suffered some ligament damage around his elbow.