The Brisbane Strikers NPL Under-16s boys jumped to the top of their league table today – at least for a short time – and kept the Sunshine Coast Fire in second-last with a hard-fought 2-0 win at Meakin Park. This was a match the Strikers always looked likely to win. But they had to work [...]
The senior team got the weekend underway in positive style for the Strikers last night and the juniors are continuing it, with wins for the Under 12 and Under 13 boys and the Under 13 girls. Senior men: Brisbane Strikers 3 Sunshine Coast Fire 0 (HT 0-0) Under 20 men: Bye Under 18 boys: Brisbane [...]
A vastly improved all-round team performance has arrested the Brisbane Strikers’ recent form slump and earned them the club’s biggest ever winning margin over arch rivals Sunshine Coast Fire, with three second half goals carrying the Strikers to a 3-0 win at Perry Park last night. Strikers coach David Large, dissatisfied with the defending that [...]
Football, as they say, can be a funny old game. Funny as in ‘strange’. Even when things the football gods seem to be going against you they can also be going for you. Take the result in last night’s Redlands United v Olympic FC fixture, for example, which has presented the Brisbane Strikers with a [...]
Brisbane Strikers skipper Nick Robinson has been released by the club and has signed with NPL rivals Redlands United. Robinson, 30 (pictured), had not been selected to play for the first team since Round 3 when the Strikers lost 7-2 to Olympic FC and, after a period of time trying to force his way back [...]
New competitions like the National Premier Leagues can take a while to develop intense rivalries between their clubs, because rivalries tend to develop due to unpredictable sets of circumstances and over long periods of time. So when a rivalry already exists between two clubs in a new competition it should be viewed as a real [...]
Results over the last two weekends in the National Premier Leagues senior men’s competition have left the Brisbane Strikers precariously placed in fourth position, while underlining the growing unpredictability of the new league. Back to back losses for the Strikers to teams who had previously struggled – QAS and Palm Beach – have halted the [...]
Here are the latest scores from this weekend’s fixtures involving the Brisbane Strikers and Souths Strikers teams: Senior men: Palm Beach 3 Brisbane Strikers 2 (HT 3-1) Under 20 men: Palm Beach 2 Brisbane Strikers 3 (HT 2-1) Under 18 boys: Palm Beach 2 Brisbane Strikers 6 (HT 1-3) Under 16 boys: Palm Beach 1 [...]
The Brisbane Strikers again slipped on a banana skin last night as they failed to negotiate the dangers posed by desperate Palm Beach Sharks in going down 3-2 to the home side at Mallawa Drive. The Strikers were hit by a Panic attack in the first half of the game as their former centre forward, [...]
All bets are off for the Brisbane Strikers this week in terms of team selection for the club’s first visit to the Mallawa Sports Complex since 2007 to play the Palm Beach Sharks on Saturday. Such has been the disquiet caused among the Strikers’ coaching staff by last Friday’s 1-2 loss to the Queensland Academy, [...]
The Brisbane Strikers NPL Under-16s boys jumped to the top of their league table today – at least for a short time – and kept the Sunshine Coast Fire in second-last with a hard-fought 2-0 win at Meakin Park. This was a match the Strikers always looked likely to win. But they had to work [...]
The senior team got the weekend underway in positive style for the Strikers last night and the juniors are continuing it, with wins for the Under 12 and Under 13 boys and the Under 13 girls. Senior men: Brisbane Strikers 3 Sunshine Coast Fire 0 (HT 0-0) Under 20 men: Bye Under 18 boys: Brisbane [...]
A vastly improved all-round team performance has arrested the Brisbane Strikers’ recent form slump and earned them the club’s biggest ever winning margin over arch rivals Sunshine Coast Fire, with three second half goals carrying the Strikers to a 3-0 win at Perry Park last night. Strikers coach David Large, dissatisfied with the defending that [...]
