GOLD Coast coach Rodney Eade doesn't expect his players to be distracted ahead of their opening NAB Challenge game on Saturday, after reports emerged linking the Suns to a police investigation.
A News Limited report on Thursday alleged some Suns players were under investigation more than two years ago for the use of an illicit substance.
However, Eade said the club had not been able to verify the report.
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He also suggested it seemed a "very tenuous link" to the situation involving former Suns player Karmichael Hunt and NRL club the Gold Coast Titans.
"It's the first time we've heard about it. There's actually no information and we've got no facts around it," Eade told AFL.com.au's new First Bounce show.
"Obviously as a club and an industry we take drugs very seriously, but we can't act unless we've got facts and information and we haven't got that, so we certainly would act but at this stage there's nothing there.
"It seems a very tenuous link with what's happening at the moment with Karmichael and the Titans but from our point of view we've got no facts."
Eade, football operations boss Marcus Ashcroft and chief executive Andrew Travis addressed the players earlier this week about the situation, but the coach said none had come forward with any information.
They have also spoken to individual players and the leadership group.
"We didn't actually jump at shadows and call the players in, we just waited until Monday and spoke to them about the situation as far as we knew," Eade said.
Eade was appointed Suns coach in late October last year, but said the playing group was "very tight" and he didn't think the squad would have its mind on off-field matters when it opened its pre-season campaign on Sunday against Geelong in Townsville.
"Certainly until today I wouldn't have thought [they would be distracted]," Eade said.
"I think we've corralled it reasonably well."
Former Sun Campbell Brown said he was surprised when the news emerged of the alleged investigation into his ex-teammate Hunt.
"I was as shocked as anyone to find the news on Friday morning. I think people need to understand that drugs in society are fairly rife, and if people were to think it didn't happen in AFL clubs they'd be fairly naïve," Brown said on First Bounce.
"There's plenty of young guys with good incomes but I certainly didn't see any of it at the Gold Coast when I was up there."
