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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
The Queensland Academy of Sports threw the National Premier Leagues formbook out of the window last night, stunning the Brisbane Strikers with a 2-1 win to snap a sequence of seven matches without a win. The Strikers, who went into the match having won four games consecutively, and the last two without conceding a goal, [...]
Another three points and another clean sheet, but a potentially medium-term injury to sharp shooter Matt Thurtell (pictured) were the key outcomes to emerge from the Brisbane Strikers 4-0 win over Western Pride at the North Ipswich Reserve today. A bruising first half saw the destination of the three points wrapped up by half time [...]
A superb Greg King hat-trick and a performance of relentless energy and enthusiasm from the Brisbane Strikers powered them to a 7-0 dismantling of an under-strength Moreton Bay United Jets and gave stand-in skipper Chay Hews a memorable 200-game ‘thank you’ at Perry Park last night. King’s hat-trick could have graced any highlights reel in [...]
A timely return to the hat-trick club by Matt Thurtell (pictured), lashings of backs-to-the-wall grit and some inspired tactical changes in the second half helped the Brisbane Strikers emerge 4-3 winners over CQ Energy after a torrid ninety minutes of football at Rugby Park in Rockhampton last night. The Strikers overcame the disappointment of yet [...]
With the National Premier Leagues season now in full swing, and with both the NPL and local Brisbane leagues squads determined, it is worth remembering that if the Brisbane Strikers senior men’s team need back-up due to injuries, suspensions or loss of form the ‘go to’ place for that back-up could be the club’s Under [...]
The Brisbane Strikers have bounced back to form, thrashing FNQ Heat 5-1 at the Cleveland Showgrounds last night to produce the shot in the arm that their National Premier Leagues campaign needed after an Easter break overshadowed by the ignominy of their last-up 7-2 loss to Olympic FC. Two goals each from Matt Thurtell and [...]
The Brisbane Strikers stumbled to their heaviest defeat in a competitive fixture in many a year last night, thrashed 7-2 by a hard-nosed Olympic FC in their National Premier League’s Round 3 fixture with a performance that had coach David Large apologising to Strikers supporters after the game. Olympic’s seasoned centre-forward Tim Smits, with a [...]
While the Brisbane Strikers senior men’s team is in Townsville this weekend, the Under-20s will get some unscheduled action on Sunday thanks to an agreement with Moreton Bay United Jets. The two clubs were scheduled for a bye this weekend but will keep their match fitness up by playing a friendly fixture against each other [...]
After last weekend’s morale-boosting win over old foes Sunshine Coast Fire the Brisbane Strikers take their second trip to northern Queensland this week to take on the team who are arguably the most puzzling opponents in the NPL, Northern Fury. The Townsville-based former A-League club, who are player-coached by their former A-League midfielder Gareth Edds, [...]
The Brisbane Strikers have a date with A-League club Brisbane Roar at Perry Park. The friendly has been earmarked for Wednesday 7 August and will form part of the Roar’s pre-season preparations for their 2013/14 A-League campaign. For the Strikers, the fixture will fall four days before a Round 21 National Premier Leagues fixture against [...]