Gold Coast mentor Guy McKenna is the luckiest coach under the sun Gold Coast coach Guy McKenna has turned a young and inexperienced Suns team into a competitive unit. GUY McKenna may have the best job in footy. There wouldn't be a coach in the competition that doesn't envy his list. He operates in an environment that is a world apart from Michael Voss. A senior Brisbane official told me a few weeks ago he believed his club was well in front of the Suns but I couldn't disagree more. It is not obvious whether Brisbane's problem is the coach or the players. The only thing that is clear is there is a major problem. McKenna doesn't have to wonder if his players will become elite and the question of when is fast becoming irrelevant, too. He has time, anyway. His boss actually thinks he is ahead of schedule. By boss, I mean Andrew Demetriou because, as long as the AFL funds the club, they will have a say in how it is run. Chairman John Witheriff put a bit of pressure on the organisation with his strategic vision that calls for a premiership by 2015 but failure to achieve that won't spell the end of Bluey's time here. It was a PR stunt designed to highlight the club's ambition. Witho is an irresistible force. He continues to be a terrific chairman for the start-up club. But he won't be the man determining the football side's fate. To suggest a side - built almost entirely from the 2010 draft - would win a flag in its fifth year, ignores totally how hard this competition is. More realistic is they will be playing finals by then, and they will be. I think they'll push hard next year. It doesn't mean "Bluey" is free from pressure. He knows better than anyone how impatient the footy public can be. It wasn't that long ago he was getting whacked. But he has the advantage of a stable administration, another year to run on his contract, and a talented list. He has some absolute superstars. I don't think I've seen a better first-year player than Jaeger O'Meara. Chris Judd, who arrived via the 2001 draft, would be the only one who comes close. If you listen to senior Suns officials, Jack Martin could be the pick of them all. He is the first player to have been offered a five-year deal before he had played a senior game.