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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
There will be no more football in 2013 for Matt Thurtell. That is the sad wash-up from Sunday’s 4-0 win by the Strikers over Western Pride in Ipswich, where one highly questionable tackle saw Thurtell stretchered from the field a couple of minutes before the half time break with a knee injury. Scans of Thurtell’s [...]
Brisbane Strikers coach David Large has refused to commit himself to taking an unchanged starting eleven into Sunday’s National Premier Leagues fixture with Western Pride at the North Ipswich Reserve. The Strikers emerged from last weekend’s 7-0 win over Moreton Bay United with no injury concerns or suspensions, which in theory enables Large to select [...]
The Brisbane Strikers will complete a trio of “first encounters” when they run on to Perry Park to face Moreton Bay United Jets in their Round 6 National Premier Leagues match on Saturday night. The last fortnight has seen the Strikers post 5-1 and 4-3 wins respectively over two new entities, FNQ Heat and CQFC [...]
The Brisbane Strikers will this weekend venture outside of the Brisbane metropolitan area for the first time this National Premier Leagues season when they travel to Rockhampton to play bottom club Central Queensland FC Energy. To say that the young Energy team coached by Joe Fenech – a man who surely embodies the club’s moniker [...]
The Brisbane Strikers resume their National Premier Leagues campaign against Far North Queensland Heat on Saturday promising a ‘below the waist’ solution to the problems that plagued their Round 3 performance against Olympic FC a fortnight ago. But Strikers fans should rest assured – it’s all above board! The Strikers v Heat fixture, which will [...]
It’s still early days in the National Premier Leagues season, but already there is a “crunch game” feel around Perry Park as the club savours a top-of-the-table assignment against cross-town rivals Olympic FC on Saturday. The Strikers will host an NPL double-header at their home ground, with the QAS and Palm Beach Sharks facing off [...]
The Brisbane Strikers will make the short journey from Albion to Newmarket on Saturday to resume hostilities with near-neighbours Brisbane City for the first time in six years. The intervening period has seen the two clubs take divergent paths in different leagues, and their respective coaching staff have had limited opportunity to scout each other [...]
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 [...]