In a time and place where footballers, for one reason or another, change clubs frequently it is becoming increasingly rare for a footballer to achieve a century of appearances for one club. So it almost goes without saying that players who make two hundred appearances for one club are as scarce as hens’ teeth. How [...]
Catch what the two teams – and some Strikers supporters – had to say after last Saturday’s QSL semi-final at Perry Park, won 2-0 by the Whitsunday Miners.
“The technical elements that are in the QSL, where you can go and watch games and see passing patterns consistently played out, and teams hold their structure and play to a shape, and play out of the back consistently and keep the ball on the ground – I think you will get that a lot [...]
In this second instalment of a three-part interview conducted with Brisbane Strikers captain John Costello hours before the team played the FNQ Bulls in Mareeba a month ago, Costello talks about why he left the Strikers at the end of the 2009 QSL season to play with Olympic FC in the BPL. We then move [...]
Forget about that dry report on Queensland’s state of economic health from that other Costello – we’ve got a footy status report that should be a lot more readable and perhaps more thought provoking! At 27 years of age, John Costello has recently added a second QSL title – this time as captain of the [...]
Click on these links to see what the two teams had to say about the Strikers’ 5-1 win over the Gold Coast on Saturday:
Here’s what the rival coaches and skippers had to say after the match on Saturday:
In football terms 2011 just keeps getting better and better for Logan Strikers midfielder Lochlan Reus. Having ended last year among the youth ranks of the Queensland Lions, Reus transferred to the Logan Strikers this year to play in the southern division of the Hyundai State Youth League and was a standout member of an [...]
The Brisbane Strikers’ Golden Boot winner for the past two seasons, Matt Thurtell, is back in Brisbane and doing what he does best – scoring goals. Thurtell, who was released by the Strikers in the last week of the regular season to take up an invitation to trial with A-League club Wellington Phoenix, has returned [...]
Published in the Free Kick, Edition 5, No.8 on 26 June, 2010 for the visit of the Queensland Academy of Sports: Blasting In From Left Field Away from the pitch, Brisbane Strikers left back Brad McDonald personifies ‘laid back’. He is quiet and unflappable, quick with a smile and usually wired for sound with a [...]
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 [...]